Gugu Mbatha-Raw

Known for ActingBorn 1983-04-21 (age 43)Oxford, Oxfordshire, England UK

Gugulethu Sophia Mbatha-Raw, MBE (/ˈɡuːɡuːəmˈbætərɔː/; born 21 April 1983) is a British actress. She began acting at the National Youth Music Theatre and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She gained acclaim for her roles as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet and Octavia in Anthony and Cleopatra in 2005 at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester. She made her West End and Broadway debut, portraying Ophelia in Hamlet in 2009. For her role as the titular character in Jessica Swale's 2015 play Nell Gwynn, she received an Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress nomination. Her early television roles include Doctor Who(2007), the NBC series Undercovers (2010), and FOX's Touch (2012). She had her breakthrough with the British period drama film Belle (2013), for which she won the BIFA for Best Actress. After roles in the films Beyond the Lights (2014) and Miss Sloane (2016), she co-starred in the Emmy Award-winning Black Mirror episode "San Junipero" (2016), for which she received acclaim. Her other film roles include Beauty and the Beast (2017), A Wrinkle in Time (2018), Motherless Brooklyn (2019), Misbehaviour (2020), and Summerland (2020). She has also acted in the Apple TV+ drama series The Morning Show (2019) and the Disney+ series Loki (2021–present). In 2017, Mbatha-Raw was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) by Queen Elizabeth II for services to drama. In February 2021, Mbatha-Raw was appointed a global Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Description above from the Wikipedia article Gugu Mbatha-Raw, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Black Mirror

Loki

After the Storm

Doctor Who Confidential

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance

Agatha Christie's Marple

The Morning Show

The War Between the Land and the Sea

Spooks

Summerland

The Crystal Calls - Making The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance

Doctor Who

Bad Girls

Viva Blackpool

Miss Sloane

Fuze

Marvel Studios Assembled

The Graham Norton Show

Belle

Concussion

Lost in Austen

Irreplaceable You

Beauty and the Beast

All My Dreams on VHS

Odd Thomas

Free State of Jones

Beyond the Lights

Motherless Brooklyn

Trial & Retribution

The Whole Truth

Touch

Lift

Misbehaviour

Surface

The Woman in Cabin 10

The Girl Before

Farming

The Daily Show

Easy

Fast Color

Possession

Larry Crowne

Come Away

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

The Cloverfield Paradox

Holby City

Bonekickers

9 Kisses