Noma Dumezweni

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Born

1969-07-28

Place of Birth

Swaziland, South Africa

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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Acting History

2025
Murderbot as Mensah
2025
Lions of the Skeleton Coast as Narrator (voice)
2025
The Friend as Barbara
2024
ReEntry as Alicia
2024
Presumed Innocent as Judge Laryn Lyttle
2023
Retribution as Angela Brickmann
2023
Best Interests as Samantha
2023
The Little Mermaid as The Queen
2023
Soul of the Ocean as Narrator (voice)
2022
The Same Storm as Dionne Davis
2022
The Watcher as Theodora Birch
2021
Only Murders in the Building as Maxine Spear
2021
Statue Wars: One Summer in Bristol as Narrator
2021
Made for Love as Dr. Fiffany Hodeck
2021
Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel as (voiceover)
2020
The Undoing as Hayley Fitzgerald
2020
Normal People as Gillian
2019
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind as Edith Sikelo
2019
The Kid Who Would Be King as Mrs. Lee
2018
Mary Poppins Returns as Miss Penny Farthing
2018
Black Earth Rising as Alice Munezero
2017
Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams as Senior Agent Okhile
2016
The Roof as Another Fan
2015
The Marriage of Reason & Squalor
2013
Out of Darkness
2012
Magpie Sings the Blues as Dr. Marcia Hammond
2012
Teeth as Mrs. Taylor
2009
Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead as Capt Magambo
2008
Fallout as Joyce Abena
2008
The Colour of Magic as Marchessa
2007
Fallen Angel as Carla
2007
The Grey Man as Sergeant
2006
Mysterious Creatures as Chanelle Pinkerton
2005
Doctor Who as Captain Magambo
2004
Shameless as Mrs. Newman
2004
New Tricks
2002
Dirty Pretty Things as Celia
2001
Macbeth as Weird Sister
1999
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Chief Kathryn Tynan
1997
Midsomer Murders as Ailsa Probert
1996
Silent Witness
1982
Nature as Narrator (voice)
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