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Gugu Mbatha-Raw
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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…
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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.
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Gugu Mbatha-Raw's Filmography
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Fuze
as Zuzana
Deep Dive
as Self
The Woman in Cabin 10
as Rowan
Lift
as Abby Gladwell
Come Away
as Alice Littleton (Adult)
Summerland
as Vera
Misbehaviour
as Jennifer Hosten - Miss Grenada
Motherless Brooklyn
as Laura Rose
The Crystal Calls - Making The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
as Self
Fast Color
as Ruth
Farming
as Ms. Dapo
A Wrinkle in Time
as Dr. Kate Murry
Irreplaceable You
as Abbie
The Cloverfield Paradox
as Ava Hamilton
After the Storm
as Mother
August 28: A Day in the Life of a People
as Self
Beauty and the Beast
as Plumette
Miss Sloane
as Esme Manucharian
Free State of Jones
as Rachel
The Whole Truth
as Janelle
Concussion
as Prema Mutiso
Jupiter Ascending
as Famulus
Beyond the Lights
as Noni Jean
9 Kisses
as Bride
Belle
as Dido Elizabeth Belle
Odd Thomas
as Viola Peabody
Larry Crowne
as Talia
All My Dreams on VHS
as Erica
Act of God
as Rose
Fallout
as Shanice Roberts
Walk Away and I Stumble
as Nurse
Straightheads
as Young PA
Dead Clever: The Life and Crimes of Julie Bottomley
as Jessica
Born Equal
as Girl at King's Cross Station
Viva Blackpool
as Pretty Young Woman
No Poster
Blood Ties
as Detective Reese Rezek
No Poster
Seacole
as Mary Seacole
No Poster
Nobody’s Heart
as Lily
No Poster
An Untamed State
as Mireille Duval Jameson