Mbatha-Raw played minor roles on television series such as Bad Girls (2006) and Marple (2007). During her time as a student she worked at the newly opened attraction, The London Eye. In 2001, she moved to London to train at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Her credits include dancing at the Judy Tompsett School of Dance, now known as the Marsh Tompsett School of Dance. Interested in acting, dance, and musical theatre from a young age, Mbatha-Raw attended the Henry Box School and participated in the National Youth Theatre.
Her first name is a contraction of igugu lethu, which means "our treasure" in Zulu and in isiXhosa. Gugulethu Sophia Mbatha-Raw was born on 21 April 1983 in Oxford, the daughter of Patrick Mbatha, a Black South African doctor, and Anne Raw, a white English nurse.
In February 2021, Mbatha-Raw was appointed a global Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). In 2017 she was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) by Queen Elizabeth II for services to drama. Her career progressed with roles in the films Miss Sloane (2016), Beauty and the Beast (2017), Motherless Brooklyn (2019), Misbehaviour (2020), the Apple TV+ drama series The Morning Show (2019), and the Disney+ series Loki (2021). She gained critical acclaim for her starring role in " San Junipero" (2016), an episode in season three of the anthology series Black Mirror. Her leading performance as the titular character in Jessica Swale's 2015 play Nell Gwynn earned her a nomination for the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress. Mbatha-Raw's breakthrough came with the British period drama Belle (2013), for which she won the BIFA Award for Best Actress, and the romantic drama Beyond the Lights (2014). After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, she began acting in British television and stage productions, appearing in the science-fiction series Doctor Who (2007), and went on to appear in Tom Hanks' comedy film Larry Crowne (2011), and the short-lived television series Undercovers (2010) and Touch (2012). Gugulethu Sophia Mbatha-Raw MBE ( / ˈ ɡ uː ɡ uː əm ˈ b æ t ə r ɔː/ born 21 April 1983) is an English actress.
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