Noma Dumezweni
Known For
Acting
Born
1969-07-28 in Swaziland, South Africa
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.
Most Known For
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Chief Kathryn Tynan
Law & Order
as Chief Kathryn Tynan
Midsomer Murders
as Ailsa Probert
Doctor Who
as Captain Magambo
Silent Witness
Only Murders in the Building
as Maxine Spear
Nature
as Narrator (voice)
Shameless
as Mrs. Newman
Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
as Senior Agent Okhile
The Little Mermaid
as The Queen
New Tricks
Presumed Innocent
as Judge Laryn Lyttle
Murderbot
as Mensah
The Watcher
as Theodora Birch
Normal People
as Gillian
The Undoing
as Hayley Fitzgerald
Black Earth Rising
as Alice Munezero
Made for Love
as Dr. Fiffany Hodeck
The Colour of Magic
as Marchessa
Retribution
as Angela Brickmann