
Noma Dumezweni
Biography
Noma Dumezweni (born 28 July 1969) is a South African-British actress. In 2006, she won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role for her performance as Ruth Younger in A Raisin in the Sun at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre. In 2017, she won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance as Hermione Granger in the original West End run of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child; she reprised the role for the show's original Broadway run and, in 2018, was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play.
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Known For
Acting History
2025
Murderbot as Mensah
2025Lions of the Skeleton Coast as Narrator (voice)
2025The Friend as Barbara
2024ReEntry as Alicia
2024Presumed Innocent as Judge Laryn Lyttle
2023Retribution as Angela Brickmann
2023Best Interests as Samantha
2023The Little Mermaid as The Queen
2023Soul of the Ocean as Narrator (voice)
2022The Same Storm as Dionne Davis
2022The Watcher as Theodora Birch
2021Only Murders in the Building as Maxine Spear
2021Statue Wars: One Summer in Bristol as Narrator
2021Made for Love as Dr. Fiffany Hodeck
2021Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel as (voiceover)
2020The Undoing as Hayley Fitzgerald
2020Normal People as Gillian
2019The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind as Edith Sikelo
2019The Kid Who Would Be King as Mrs. Lee
2018Mary Poppins Returns as Miss Penny Farthing
2018Black Earth Rising as Alice Munezero
2017Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams as Senior Agent Okhile
2016The Roof as Another Fan
2015The Marriage of Reason & Squalor
2013Out of Darkness
2012Magpie Sings the Blues as Dr. Marcia Hammond
2012Teeth as Mrs. Taylor
2009Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead as Capt Magambo
2008Fallout as Joyce Abena
2008The Colour of Magic as Marchessa
2007Fallen Angel as Carla
2007The Grey Man as Sergeant
2006Mysterious Creatures as Chanelle Pinkerton
2005Doctor Who as Captain Magambo
2004Shameless as Mrs. Newman
2004New Tricks
2002Dirty Pretty Things as Celia
2001Macbeth as Weird Sister
1999Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Chief Kathryn Tynan
1997Midsomer Murders as Ailsa Probert
1996Silent Witness
1982Nature as Narrator (voice)
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