Letitia Wright
Biography
Letitia Michelle Wright is a Guyanese-British actress born on October 31, 1993, in Georgetown, Guyana. Her career includes fifty known acting credits listed on The Movie Database. She began her television career with guest roles in several series, including Top Boy, Coming Up, Chasing Shadows, Humans, Doctor Who, and Black Mirror, earning a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for her work on Black Mirror. She achieved a career breakthrough in the 2015 film Urban Hymn, leading the British Academy of Film and Television Arts to name her among the 2015 group of BAFTA Breakthrough Brits. In 2018, she gained global recognition for portraying Shuri in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Black Panther, winning an NAACP Image Award and a SAG Award, and she later reprised the role in Avengers: Infinity War.
Career overview
Letitia Michelle Wright is a Guyanese-British actress born on October 31, 1993, in Georgetown, Guyana. She began her professional acting career with guest roles in several television series, including Top Boy, Coming Up, Chasing Shadows, Humans, Doctor Who, and Black Mirror. Her performance in Black Mirror earned her a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. Following her early television work, Wright experienced a career breakthrough in the 2015 film Urban Hymn. For her role in the film, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts named her among the 2015 group of BAFTA Breakthrough Brits.
In 2018, Wright achieved global recognition for portraying the character Shuri in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Black Panther. Her work in the film earned her an NAACP Image Award and a SAG Award. She subsequently reprised the role of Shuri in Avengers: Infinity War, released in 2018. Across her career, Wright has accumulated fifty known acting credits in film and television.
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- Avengers: Secret Wars (2027) as Shuri
- Avengers: Doomsday (2026) as Shuri
- National Theatre at Home: The Story (2026) as Yvonne
- Ironheart (2025) as Shuri (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Highway to the Moon (2025) Director
- Highway to the Moon (2025) Writer
- Highway to the Moon (2025) Producer
- Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot (2024) Executive Producer
- Voices Rising: The Music of Wakanda Forever (2023) as Shuri (archive footage) / Self - Actress
- Voices Rising: The Music of Wakanda Forever (2023) Thanks
- Disney 100: Remember That (2023) as Self
- Surrounded (2023) as Mo Washington
- Surrounded (2023) Producer
- Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2023) as Self
- Death on the Nile (2022) as Rosalie Otterbourne
- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022) as Shuri
- The Silent Twins (2022) as June
- The Silent Twins (2022) Producer
- Aisha (2022) as Aisha Osagie
- 20/20 Presents Black Panther: In Search of Wakanda (2022) as Self
- Sing 2 (2021) as Nooshy (voice)
- Marvel Studios Legends (2021) as Shuri (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Lines (2021)
- Lines (2021) Producer
- Things I Never Told My Father (2021) Writer
- Things I Never Told My Father (2021) Producer
- Small Axe (2020) as Altheia Jones
- Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King (2020) as Self (archive footage)
- Avengers: Endgame (2019) as Shuri
- Tamron Hall (2019) as Self - Guest
- I Am... (2019) as Danielle
- I Am... (2019) Writer
- Guava Island (2019) as Yara Love
- Avengers: Infinity War (2018) as Shuri
- Black Panther (2018) as Shuri
- Ready Player One (2018) as Reb (Safe House)
- The Commuter (2018) as Jules Skateboarder
- Steve (2017) as Self
- Cake (2017)
- Humans (2015) as Renie
- Cucumber (2015) as Vivienne Scott
- Banana (2015) as Vivienne Scott
- Urban Hymn (2015) as Jamie Harrison
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2014) as Self - Guest
- Variety Studio: Actors on Actors (2014) as Self
- Chasing Shadows (2014) as Taylor Davis
- Glasgow Girls (2014) as Amal
- Big Girl (2013) as Hannah
- My Brother the Devil (2012) as Aisha
- Black Mirror (2011) as Nish
- Top Boy (2011) as Chantelle
- Victim (2011) as Nyla
- Random (2011) as Girl #3
- Doctor Who (2005) as Anahson
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003) as Self - Guest
- Golden Globe Awards (1944) as Self - Presenter
- Michael Caton-Jones: This Broxburn Boy's Life as Self