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Noma Dumezweni

Acting Born Jul 28, 1969 Swaziland, South Africa 24 credits

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.

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Full filmography

  • Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) as Chief Kathryn Tynan
  • Law & Order (1990) as Chief Kathryn Tynan
  • Midsomer Murders (1997) as Ailsa Probert
  • Doctor Who (2005) as Captain Magambo
  • Silent Witness (1996)
  • New Tricks (2004)
  • Nature (1982) as Narrator (voice)
  • Only Murders in the Building (2021) as Maxine Spear
  • Shameless (2004) as Mrs. Newman
  • The Little Mermaid (2023) as The Queen
  • Murderbot (2025) as Mensah
  • Normal People (2020) as Gillian
  • Presumed Innocent (2024) as Judge Laryn Lyttle
  • The Watcher (2022) as Theodora Birch
  • The Undoing (2020) as Hayley Fitzgerald
  • Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams (2017) as Senior Agent Okhile
  • Made for Love (2021) as Dr. Fiffany Hodeck
  • The Colour of Magic (2008) as Marchessa
  • Black Earth Rising (2018) as Alice Munezero
  • The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (2019) as Edith Sikelo
  • Mary Poppins Returns (2018) as Miss Penny Farthing
  • Retribution (2023) as Angela Brickmann
  • The Last Enemy (2008) as Valerie
  • The Kid Who Would Be King (2019) as Mrs. Lee