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Before she was Okoye, Danai Gurira wrote the first Broadway play with an all-Black, all-female cast and creative team Movies & TV Before she was Okoye, Danai Gurira wrote the first Broadway play with an all-Black, all-female cast and creative team Danai Gurira, raised in Zimbabwe, is known as Okoye in Black Panther and Michonne in The Walking Dead. She is also a Tony-nominated playwright whose play Eclipsed, about women in the Liberian civil war, reached Broadway in 2016 with Lupita Nyong'o. For thirty years her name was misspelt in the credits. Thandiwe Newton took back the “w” Celebrity Buzz For thirty years her name was misspelt in the credits. Thandiwe Newton took back the “w” Thandiwe Newton, the British actress with a Zimbabwean mother, was credited as "Thandie" for most of her career. In 2021 she reclaimed the correct spelling of her Zulu name. She won an Emmy in 2018 for her role as Maeve in Westworld. Nigerian parents “farmed” him out to a white family in Essex. Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje turned it into a film Movies & TV Nigerian parents “farmed” him out to a white family in Essex. Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje turned it into a film Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, known for Oz and Lost, wrote and directed Farming (2018) about his own childhood: one of many Nigerian children "farmed out" by their parents to white British foster families in the 1960s and 1970s. Damson Idris played him. “I don’t know if I’m going to have a career after this”: John Boyega’s Hyde Park speech Celebrity Buzz “I don’t know if I’m going to have a career after this”: John Boyega’s Hyde Park speech On 3 June 2020, Star Wars actor John Boyega spoke at a Black Lives Matter protest in London's Hyde Park, saying he did not know whether he would still have a career afterwards. The Nigerian-British actor went on to work more, not less. A Tony, an Emmy and a Grammy before her first Oscar nomination: Cynthia Erivo, one award short of EGOT Celebrity Buzz A Tony, an Emmy and a Grammy before her first Oscar nomination: Cynthia Erivo, one award short of EGOT Cynthia Erivo, the British actress and singer of Nigerian heritage, won a Tony, an Emmy and a Grammy for The Color Purple on Broadway. Her roles as Harriet Tubman and Elphaba in Wicked brought Oscar nominations. An Oscar would complete her EGOT. Chiwetel Ejiofor survived the car crash that killed his father. He became the face of 12 Years a Slave Movies & TV Chiwetel Ejiofor survived the car crash that killed his father. He became the face of 12 Years a Slave Chiwetel Ejiofor, the British actor of Nigerian heritage, was nominated for the Best Actor Oscar for 12 Years a Slave and won the BAFTA. As a child he survived a car crash in Nigeria that killed his father. He later directed The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind. Uzo Aduba nearly quit acting the day she got the call for Orange Is the New Black. She won three Emmys Movies & TV Uzo Aduba nearly quit acting the day she got the call for Orange Is the New Black. She won three Emmys Uzo Aduba, the Nigerian-American actress who played Suzanne "Crazy Eyes" Warren in Orange Is the New Black, won Emmys in both the comedy and drama categories for the same role, then a third for Mrs. America in 2020. Lupita Nyong’o won an Oscar for her first feature film role. She was a year out of drama school Celebrity Buzz Lupita Nyong’o won an Oscar for her first feature film role. She was a year out of drama school Lupita Nyong'o was born in Mexico City to Kenyan parents and graduated from the Yale School of Drama in 2012. Her first feature film role, Patsey in 12 Years a Slave, won her the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in March 2014. Daniel Kaluuya wrote for Skins as a teenager. At 32 he won an Oscar for playing Fred Hampton Movies & TV Daniel Kaluuya wrote for Skins as a teenager. At 32 he won an Oscar for playing Fred Hampton Daniel Kaluuya, born in London to Ugandan parents, won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in April 2021 for Judas and the Black Messiah, three years after his Get Out nomination. Kofi Siriboe and his brothers: the Ghanaian-American family of actors behind Queen Sugar’s Ralph Angel Movies & TV Kofi Siriboe and his brothers: the Ghanaian-American family of actors behind Queen Sugar’s Ralph Angel Kofi Siriboe, born in Los Angeles in 1994 to Ghanaian parents Koshie Mills and Kwame Siriboe, played Ralph Angel Bordelon on Ava DuVernay's Queen Sugar. His two brothers are also actors.