South African roots

Movies & TV Gugu Mbatha-Raw played a real 18th-century heiress in Belle. Her own story starts in Oxford and Johannesburg Gugu Mbatha-Raw, born in Oxford to a South African father and an English mother, broke through as Dido Elizabeth Belle in the 2013 film Belle. She went on to star in Black Mirror's San Junipero and Marvel's Loki.