Gugu Mbatha-Raw

Gugulethu Sophia Mbatha-Raw, MBE (; born 21 April 1983) is an English 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 nomination.

She took early roles in television acting in ''Doctor Who'' (2007), ''Undercovers'' (2010), and ''Touch'' (2012). She earned acclaim for her leading film roles in ''Belle'' (2013), and ''Beyond the Lights'' (2014) and took supporting roles in ''Miss Sloane'' (2016), ''Beauty and the Beast'' (2017), ''A Wrinkle in Time'' (2018), ''Motherless Brooklyn'' (2019), and ''Misbehaviour'' (2020). She took leading roles in the Netflix ''Black Mirror'' episode ''San Junipero'' (2016) and the Apple TV+ drama series ''Surface'' (2022–) and acted in ''The Morning Show'' (2019), and the Disney+ series ''Loki'' (2021–2023).

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). Provided by Wikipedia