Gugu Mbatha-Raw

Gugulethu Sophia Mbatha-Raw MBE 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 title character in Jessica Swale's 2015 play Nell Gwynn, she received an Evening Standard Theatre Award nomination.