Ep. 552 - Naomi Yang - From Peaky Blinders, Wolfe, Olivier-nominated My Neighbour Totoro
My Time Capsule
Cast Off Productions
4.8 • 842 Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
British Chinese actress Naomi Yang is perhaps best known for her role as Maggy in Sky series Wolfe. Up next, she stars in Sky's crime thriller Under Salt Marsh, alongside Kelly Reilly, Rafe Spall, Jonathan Pryce and Harry Lawtey. She’s just been announced as joining the cast of BBC’s acclaimed drama Vigil in a major role for its upcoming third season Naomi can be seen in a range of acclaimed television dramas including BBC's Nightsleeper and Peaky Blinders. Most recently she starred in ITV’s DI Ray opposite Parminder Nagra and Jamie Bell. Other television credits include Apple TV+’s Liaison with Eva Green and Vincent Cassel, ITV’s Protection, ITV’s Maternal, Peacock’s Brave New World, ITV’s Deep Water, Channel 4’s Chimerica, and Disney+’s Mars. Naomi made her screen debut in the BAFTA-nominated film Lilting, followed by roles in several short films including BIFA-nominated Housewarming, and critically acclaimed animated short A Kind of Testament. On stage, she portrayed Tsukiko in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s widely celebrated, Olivier-nominated production of My Neighbour Totoro. In 2020, Naomi was selected for the prestigious BAFTA Elevate programme, spotlighting rising talent in the UK screen industry.
Naomi Yang is our guest in episode 552 of My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things she'd like to put in a time capsule; four she’d like to preserve and one she’d like to bury and never have to think about again .
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to my time capsule. My name's Mike Fenton-Stevens, and my time capsule is the podcast where people tell me five things from their life they wish they had in a time capsule. |
| 0:21.5 | Four things they love and one thing they'd like to bury and forget. |
| 0:25.6 | And my guest in this episode is the actor Naomi Yang. |
| 0:29.9 | Naomi is a Chinese-born British actor. |
| 0:33.0 | Her first role was as Van in the 2014 film Litig with Ben Wishaw. Her television credits include |
| 0:39.7 | Paul Abbott's Sky series Wolf, where she played awkward child prodigy Maggie. She also starred |
| 0:45.4 | as Mae Zhang in ITV's maternal, Joy Fu in the Channel 4 drama, Chimerica, and Lee in Peekeye |
| 0:53.1 | Blinders. On stage, she's performed as Tukiko in the Royal |
| 0:57.3 | Shakespeare Company's Olivier nominated show, My Neighbor Tatoro. Naomi has also appeared in, |
| 1:03.7 | among others, New Blood, DCI Banks, Mars, Brassick, the Salisbury Poisoning, Brave New |
| 1:10.0 | World, Shakespeare and Hathaway, D.I. Ray, |
| 1:12.9 | liaison, night sleeper, and she's also about to star in the new Sky Atlantic series Under Salt Marsh, |
| 1:19.7 | out at the end of this month. Set in Wales, it also stars Kelly Riley, Rafe Spall and Jonathan Price. |
| 1:27.0 | Naomi voices Sage in the popular video game, Velerant. |
| 1:30.9 | And in 2020, Naomi was selected as one of the actors for BAFTA Elevate. |
| 1:35.7 | Not bad, eh? |
| 1:36.8 | Still, as you listen to this delightful, intelligent and talented young woman, |
| 1:41.1 | you'll soon understand why everyone wants to work with her. |
| 1:45.7 | So here, in an episode recorded just before Christmas 2025, is the totally charming Naomi Yang. |
| 1:54.4 | It's Glasgow, yeah. Is that where you are? |
| 1:57.2 | I'm where I am. I know. It's stunning. I'm on the eighth floor. It's a lovely place, isn't it, Glasgow? I love it. So do I. I swear I am. I know. It's stunning. I'm on the eighth floor. |
| 2:01.6 | It's a lovely place, isn't it, Glasgow? I love it. So do I. I love it. Are you going to go to a Kaley dance on the boat on the river? I mean, I'm going to try. Definitely going to try. Yeah, no. You've got to. I love Edinburgh. It's like Edinburgh is so pretty, but there's just, there's a certain energy about Glasgow. |
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