
Gugu Mbatha-Raw
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Biography
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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Known For

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Doctor Who

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

The Daily Show

The Graham Norton Show

Black Mirror

Agatha Christie's Marple

Entertainment Tonight

Easy

Marvel Studios Assembled

Spooks

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance

Jupiter Ascending

Beauty and the Beast

Larry Crowne

A Wrinkle in Time

Come Away

The Morning Show

Farming

Loki

Odd Thomas

The Whole Truth

Miss Sloane

Touch

Motherless Brooklyn

Lift

Summerland

Free State of Jones

Belle

Undercovers

Irreplaceable You

The Girl Before

Surface

The Cloverfield Paradox
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