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Letitia Wright: from Guyana to Shuri to carrying the Black Panther mantle Movies & TV Letitia Wright: from Guyana to Shuri to carrying the Black Panther mantle Letitia Wright was born in Guyana and moved to London as a child. She became famous as Shuri in Black Panther (2018), won the BAFTA Rising Star Award, and took up the Black Panther mantle in Wakanda Forever (2022). Thuso Mbedu: the Pietermaritzburg actress who led an American series on her first try Movies & TV Thuso Mbedu: the Pietermaritzburg actress who led an American series on her first try Thuso Mbedu was raised by her grandmother in Pietermaritzburg, earned two International Emmy nominations for Is'Thunzi, then became the first South African woman to lead a US television series in Barry Jenkins's The Underground Railroad. Game of Thrones, The Good Doctor and Captain Marvel: actor Chuku Modu Movies & TV Game of Thrones, The Good Doctor and Captain Marvel: actor Chuku Modu Chuku Modu, born in 1990 in Chiswick, west London, to a father of mixed Igbo and German heritage and an Anglo-Irish mother, is a British actor known for roles in Game of Thrones, The Good Doctor, The 100 and the 2019 Marvel film Captain Marvel. From Power’s Dre to The Chi: Nigerian-American actor and singer Rotimi Movies & TV From Power’s Dre to The Chi: Nigerian-American actor and singer Rotimi Rotimi, born Olurotimi Akinosho in Maplewood, New Jersey, in 1988 to a Nigerian family of Yoruba heritage, is an actor and singer known for Darius Morrison in Boss, Andre "Dre" Coleman in Power and Charles in The Chi. In 2015, 50 Cent signed him to G-Unit Records. From Hollyoaks to the TARDIS: Tosin Cole, the Nigerian-heritage actor in Doctor Who Movies & TV From Hollyoaks to the TARDIS: Tosin Cole, the Nigerian-heritage actor in Doctor Who Tosin Cole, born in Florida in 1992 to Nigerian parents of Yoruba heritage and raised partly in New York before building his career in Britain, starred in EastEnders: E20 and Hollyoaks before playing companion Ryan Sinclair in Doctor Who alongside Jodie Whittaker's Doctor. From Trappes to Lupin: Omar Sy, the first Black actor to win the César for Best Actor Movies & TV From Trappes to Lupin: Omar Sy, the first Black actor to win the César for Best Actor Omar Sy, born in Trappes, France, in 1978 to a Senegalese father and a Mauritanian mother, became famous in the 2011 comedy-drama The Intouchables, which won him the César for Best Actor, making him the first Black recipient. He went on to Hollywood films and the global Netflix hit Lupin. Coriolanus at the RSC, Elliot in Gangs of London: the rise of Sope Dirisu Movies & TV Coriolanus at the RSC, Elliot in Gangs of London: the rise of Sope Dirisu Sope Dirisu, born in London in 1991 to Nigerian parents, earned an Ian Charleson commendation for playing Coriolanus at the Royal Shakespeare Company, a British Independent Film Award nomination for His House, and wide recognition as Elliot Carter in Sky's Gangs of London. Nana Ama McBrown Opens Up About Her Past Accident and Struggles After Hand Surgeries News Nana Ama McBrown Opens Up About Her Past Accident and Struggles After Hand Surgeries Celebrated Ghanaian actress and TV personality Nana Ama McBrown has opened up about her ordeal with the severe hand injury she sustained after her… From a child actor in Ripples to Nigeria’s first Netflix film: Genevieve Nnaji Movies & TV From a child actor in Ripples to Nigeria’s first Netflix film: Genevieve Nnaji Genevieve Nnaji, born in 1979 in Mbaise, Imo State, began acting as a child in the TV soap opera Ripples. She became one of Nollywood's biggest stars, produced Road to Yesterday in 2015, and directed Lionheart, the first Nigerian film acquired by Netflix and Nigeria's first Oscar submission. A Peckham boy played a Los Angeles drug kingpin for six seasons: Damson Idris and Snowfall Movies & TV A Peckham boy played a Los Angeles drug kingpin for six seasons: Damson Idris and Snowfall British-Nigerian actor Damson Idris grew up in Peckham, south London, and became a star as Franklin Saint in FX's Snowfall, a drama about the crack cocaine epidemic in 1980s Los Angeles co-created by John Singleton. The series ran for six seasons from 2017 to 2023.