Gugu Mbatha-Raw is a British actress who has appeared in television shows such as Doctor Who (2007) and Undercovers (2010-2012), as well as films such as Belle (2013), Beyond the Lights (2014), and Black Mirror (2016).
She won the ‘British Independent Film Award’ for ‘Best Actress’ and was nominated for ‘Most Promising Newcomer’ for her promising performance in the film Belle. She was also nominated for a ‘Gotham Award’ for her role in the film Beyond the Lights, for which she received a nomination for ‘Best Actress.’ Not only that, but in the 2017 Birthday Honours, Queen Elizabeth II named Gugu a “Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)” for her services and contributions to drama.
Net Worth of Gugu Mbatha-Raw :
Gugu Mbatha-Raw is a South African actress. Gugu Mbatha-Raw has a net worth of $500 thousand dollars as an English actress. Gugu Mbatha-Raw was born Gugulethu Sophia Mbatha in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, in 1983. She studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London in the early 2000s. In the middle of the decade, she got a number of modest TV jobs, including cameos in “Doctor Who” and “Bad Girls.” In 2010, she landed a starring role in “Undercovers,” however the show was canceled soon after it premiered. Mbatha-Raw then starred in “Touch” in 2011 alongside “24” actor Kiefer Sutherland. In the same year, she starred as Dido Elizabeth Belle in Tom Hanks’ “Larry Crowne.” In 2013, she starred as Dido Elizabeth Belle in the historical film “Belle.” She was also seen in the films “Blackbird” and “Jupiter Ascending.” Mbatha-Raw has a long history on the stage, having played the female lead in “Antony and Cleopatra” and “Romeo and Juliet” at the Royal Exchange in Manchester in 2005. She went on to play Monique in the National Theatre’s 2008 production of “Gethsemane” and featured as Opheila alongside Jude Law in the Donmar West End and Broadway productions of “Hamlet” from 2009 to 2010. In 2006’s “Living with the Enemy” and 2009’s “Choice of Straws,” Mbatha-Raw made appearances on BBC Radio 4. She is currently filming “The Whole Truth,” a film set for release in 2015.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw’s Bio: Age & Parents:
Gugu Mbatha-Raw was born Gugulethu Sophia Mbatha in the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England on April 21, 1983.
Anne Raw, a Caucasian English nurse, is her mother, and Patrick Mbatha, a Black South African doctor, is her father.
Her father was a South African student activist who campaigned against apartheid. Later, he joined the ‘African National Congress (ANC),’ but he fled South Africa because to the threat of being sent to Robben Island, where Nelson Mandel was imprisoned for for two decades. After that, the UN Refugee Agency UNHCR assisted him in resettling in England.
Gugu Mbatha-parents Raw’s split when she was just a year old. As a result, she was reared by her mother in the Oxfordshire town of Witney. She attended Henry Box School and was a member of Dramascope, a local performing organization. She also took dance classes at the Judy Tompsett School of Dance.
She was a member of the Oxford Youth Music Theatre while she was in her teens. She received a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London, England, in 2001, and graduated with a BA in Acting from there in 2004.
