Noma Dumezweni
- Acting
- July 28, 1969 · 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.
Known for
Filmography
- Prima Facie
- The Shards · Teacher
- Tusker: Brotherhood of Elephants · Self
- Murderbot · Mensah
- Lions of the Skeleton Coast · Self
- The Friend · Barbara
- ReEntry · Alicia
- Presumed Innocent · Judge Laryn Lyttle
- Retribution · Angela Brickmann
- Best Interests · Samantha
- The Little Mermaid · The Queen
- The Same Storm · Dionne Davis
- The Watcher · Theodora Birch
- Soul of the Ocean · Self
- Only Murders in the Building · Maxine Spear
- Statue Wars: One Summer in Bristol · Narrator
- Made for Love · Dr. Fiffany Hodeck
- Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel · (voiceover)
- The Undoing · Hayley Fitzgerald
- Normal People · Gillian
- The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind · Edith Sikelo
- The Kid Who Would Be King · Mrs. Lee
- Mary Poppins Returns · Miss Penny Farthing
- Black Earth Rising · Alice Munezero
- Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams · Senior Agent Okhile
- The Roof · Another Fan
- The Marriage of Reason & Squalor
- Out of Darkness
- Magpie Sings the Blues · Dr. Marcia Hammond
- Teeth · Mrs. Taylor
- Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead · Capt Magambo
- Fallout · Joyce Abena
- The Colour of Magic · Marchessa
- The Last Enemy · Valerie
- Fallen Angel · Carla
- The Grey Man · Sergeant
- Mysterious Creatures · Chanelle Pinkerton
- Doctor Who · Captain Magambo
- Shameless · Mrs. Newman
- New Tricks
- Dirty Pretty Things · Celia
- Macbeth · Weird Sister
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit · Kathryn Tynan
- Midsomer Murders · Ailsa Probert
- Silent Witness
- Law & Order · Chief Kathryn Tynan
- Nature · Narrator (Voice)