Watch Apple TV+ Movies
TV Shows and more
Try 7-Day Free
Home >

Gugu Mbatha-Raw

Gugu Mbatha-Raw

Birthday: 1983-04-21 | Place of Birth: 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.

...

Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2026
Fuze

as    Chief Superintendent Zuzana

2026
TRINITY

as    Commander Katherine Decker

2025
The Woman in Cabin 10

as    Rowan

2024
Lift

as    Abby Gladwell

2022
Surface

as    Tess Caldwell / Sophie Ellis

2021
The Girl Before

as    Jane Cavendish

2020
Misbehaviour

as    Jennifer Hosten - Miss Grenada

2020
Summerland

as    Vera

2019
Motherless Brooklyn

as    Laura Rose

2019
Fast Color

as    Ruth

2018
Irreplaceable You

as    Abbie

2018
The Cloverfield Paradox

as    Ava Hamilton

2018
A Wrinkle in Time

as    Dr. Kate Murry

2018
Farming

as    Ms. Dapo

2017
After the Storm

as    Mother

2016
Miss Sloane

as    Esme Manucharian

2016
The Whole Truth

as    Janelle

2016
Free State of Jones

as    Rachel

2015
Concussion

as    Prema Mutiso

2014
Beyond the Lights

as    Noni Jean

2014
Odd Thomas

as    Viola Peabody

2013
Belle

as    Dido Elizabeth Belle

2010
Undercovers

as    Samantha Bloom

2009
Act of God

as    Rose