Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
July 28, 1969
Place of Birth:
Swaziland, South Africa
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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.
Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | The Friend | Barbara |
| 2025 | Lions of the Skeleton Coast | Narrator (voice) |
| 2024 | ReEntry | Alicia |
| 2023 | Soul of the Ocean | Narrator (voice) |
| 2023 | Retribution | Angela Brickmann |
| 2023 | The Little Mermaid | The Queen |
| 2022 | The Same Storm | Dionne Davis |
| 2021 | Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel | (voiceover) |
| 2021 | Statue Wars: One Summer in Bristol | Narrator |
| 2019 | The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind | Edith Sikelo |
| 2019 | The Kid Who Would Be King | Mrs. Lee |
| 2018 | Mary Poppins Returns | Miss Penny Farthing |
| 2016 | The Roof | Another Fan |
| 2015 | The Marriage of Reason & Squalor | |
| 2013 | Out of Darkness | |
| 2012 | Teeth | Mrs. Taylor |
| 2012 | Magpie Sings the Blues | Dr. Marcia Hammond |
| 2009 | Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead | Capt Magambo |
| 2008 | Fallout | Joyce Abena |
| 2007 | The Grey Man | Sergeant |
| 2006 | Mysterious Creatures | Chanelle Pinkerton |
| 2002 | Dirty Pretty Things | Celia |
| 2001 | Macbeth | Weird Sister |
| Prima Facie |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Murderbot | Mensah |
| 2024 | Presumed Innocent | Judge Laryn Lyttle |
| 2023 | Best Interests | Samantha |
| 2022 | The Watcher | Theodora Birch |
| 2021 | Made for Love | Dr. Fiffany Hodeck |
| 2021 | Only Murders in the Building | Maxine Spear |
| 2020 | Normal People | Gillian |
| 2020 | The Undoing | Hayley Fitzgerald |
| 2018 | Black Earth Rising | Alice Munezero |
| 2017 | Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams | Senior Agent Okhile |
| 2008 | The Colour of Magic | Marchessa |
| 2007 | Fallen Angel | Carla |
| 2005 | Doctor Who | Captain Magambo |
| 2004 | New Tricks | |
| 2004 | Shameless | Mrs. Newman |
| 1999 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Chief Kathryn Tynan |
| 1997 | Midsomer Murders | Ailsa Probert |
| 1996 | Silent Witness | |
| 1982 | Nature | Narrator (voice) |