Born
21 April 1983 (42)
Place of Birth
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England UK
Also known as
Gugulethu Sophia Mbatha, Gugulethu Mbatha
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, s...
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.
Fuze
2026
Deep Dive
2026
Deep Dive: The Making of The War Between The Land And The Sea
2026
The Woman in Cabin 10
2025
Lift
2024
Come Away
2020
Summerland
2020
Misbehaviour
2020
Motherless Brooklyn
2019
The Crystal Calls - Making The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
2019
Fast Color
2019
Farming
2018
A Wrinkle in Time
2018
Irreplaceable You
2018
The Cloverfield Paradox
2018
After the Storm
2017
August 28: A Day in the Life of a People
2017
Beauty and the Beast
2017
Miss Sloane
2016
Free State of Jones
2016
The Whole Truth
2016
Concussion
2015
Jupiter Ascending
2015
Beyond the Lights
2014
9 Kisses
2014
Belle
2013
Odd Thomas
2013
Larry Crowne
2011
All My Dreams on VHS
2009
Act of God
2009
Fallout
2008
Walk Away and I Stumble
2007
Straightheads
2007
Dead Clever: The Life and Crimes of Julie Bottomley
2007
Born Equal
2006
Viva Blackpool
2006
Nobody’s Heart
Seacole
An Untamed State
Blood Ties