1983-04-21 ( 41 years old ) in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England UK
Gugulethu Sophia Mbatha-Raw, MBE (/ˈɡuːɡuːəmˈbætərɔː/;[1][2] 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).
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Movies
Lift
2024-01-12
Come Away
2020-11-12
Summerland
2020-07-24
Misbehaviour
2020-03-12
Motherless Brooklyn
2019-10-31
Fast Color
2019-03-29
Farming
2018-09-08
A Wrinkle in Time
2018-03-08
Irreplaceable You
2018-02-16
The Cloverfield Paradox
2018-02-04
After the Storm
2017-09-21
August 28: A Day in the Life of a People
2017-08-26
Beauty and the Beast
2017-03-16
Miss Sloane
2016-11-25
Free State of Jones
2016-06-24
The Whole Truth
2016-03-25
Concussion
2015-11-12
Jupiter Ascending
2015-02-04
9 Kisses
2014-12-11
Beyond the Lights
2014-11-14
Belle
2013-05-01
Odd Thomas
2013-01-29
Larry Crowne
2011-06-30
All My Dreams on VHS
2009-09-21
Act of God
2009-01-01
Fallout
2008-07-03
Walk Away and I Stumble
2007-05-16
Straightheads
2007-04-27
Born Equal
2006-12-17
Viva Blackpool
2006-06-10
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