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Letitia Wright

Letitia Wright

Birthday: 1993-10-31 | Place of Birth: Georgetown, Guyana

Letitia Michelle Wright (born 31 October 1993) is a British actress. She began her career with guest roles in the television series Top Boy, Coming Up, Chasing Shadows, Humans, Doctor Who, and Black Mirror. For the latter, she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. She then had her breakthrough in the 2015 film Urban Hymn, for which the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) named Wright among the 2015 group of BAFTA Breakthrough Brits. In 2018, she attained global recognition for her portrayal of Shuri in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Black Panther, for which she won an NAACP Image Award and a SAG Award. She reprised the role in Avengers: Infinity War (2018), Avengers: Endgame (2019), and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022). In 2019, she received the BAFTA Rising Star Award. She also appeared in Steve McQueen's 2020 anthology series Small Axe, which earned her a Satellite Award nomination. Description above from the Wikipedia article Letitia Wright, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2024
Aisha

as    Aisha Osagie

2023
Surrounded

as    Mo Washington

2022
The Silent Twins

as    June

2022
2021
Sing 2

as    Nooshy (voice)

2020
Mangrove

as    Altheia Jones

2019
Guava Island

as    Yara Love

2018
Black Panther

as    Shuri

2015
Urban Hymn

as    Jamie Harrison

2015
Banana

as    Vivienne Scott

2014
Glasgow Girls

as    Amal

2012
My Brother the Devil

as    Aisha

2011
Victim

as    Nyla