Gugu mbatha-raw biography

English actress (born 1983)

Gugulethu Sophia Mbatha-Raw, MBE (;^[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, and 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 in Doctor Who (2007), the NBC series Undercovers (2010), Toggle share options LAM