Noma Dumezweni
Birthday: Born in 1969-07-28 in Swaziland, South Africa
Deathday: Alive
Noma Dumezweni (born 28 July 1984) 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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Made for Love
Character: Dr. Fiffany Hodeck
Thirty-something Hazel Green tries to escape a suffocating marriage — until she realizes her tech billionaire husband has implanted a revolutionary tracking device, the Made for Love, in her brain....
Silent Witness
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Silent Witness is a British crime thriller series focusing on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations into various crimes....
Fallen Angel
Character: Carla
Fallen Angel is an ITV series broadcast on 11–13 March 2007 based on the Roth Trilogy of novels by Andrew Taylor. It tells the story of Rosie Byfield, a clergyman's daughter, who grows up to be a psychopathic killer. It has a unique narrative that moves backwards in time as it uncovers the layers of Rosie's past....
New Tricks
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New Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad of the Metropolitan Police Service. Originally led by Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman, it is made up of retired police officers who have been recruited to reinvestigate unsolved crimes....
Doctor Who
Character: Capt Magambo
The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it....
Doctor Who
Character: Captain Magambo
The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it....
Only Murders in the Building
Character: Maxine Spear
Three strangers share an obsession with true crime and suddenly find themselves wrapped up in one....
Midsomer Murders
Character: Ailsa Probert
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty. ...
Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
Character: Senior Agent Okhile
A diverse anthology of ambitious, moving tales inspired by Philip K Dick's short stories....
Black Earth Rising
Character: Alice Munezero
As a child, Kate Ashby was rescued from the horrific aftermath of the Rwandan genocide and brought to the UK. But the tragic shadow of her past proves impossible to escape....
The Watcher
Character: Theodora Birch
A family moves into their suburban dream home, only to discover they've inherited a nightmare....
Nature
Character: Narrator (voice)
Consistently stunning documentaries transport viewers to far-flung locations ranging from the torrid African plains to the chilly splendours of icy Antarctica. The show's primary focus is on animals and ecosystems around the world. A comic book based on the show, meant to be used an as educational tool for kids, was briefly distributed to museums and schools at no cost in the mid-2000s....
Best Interests
Character: Samantha
Marnie has a life-threatening condition. The doctors believe it is in her best interests to be allowed to die, but her loving family disagree. And so begins a fight that will take them through every stage of a legal process, as they struggle to contemplate this huge decision. Who decides? And in whose best interests will it be?...
Presumed Innocent
Character: Judge Laryn Lyttle
A horrific murder upends the Chicago Prosecuting Attorney's Office when one of its own is suspected of the crime—leaving the accused fighting to keep his family together....
Normal People
Character: Gillian
Marianne and Connell weave in and out of each other's lives in this exploration of sex, power and the desire to love and be loved....
The Undoing
Character: Hayley Fitzgerald
Grace and Jonathan Fraser are living the only lives they ever wanted. Overnight a chasm opens in their lives: a violent death and a chain of terrible revelations. Left behind in the wake of a spreading and very public disaster, Grace must dismantle one life and create another for her child and her family....
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Soul of the Ocean
Character: Narrator (voice)
The undersea world has often been depicted as a dangerous place filled with lethal predators. A world where sharks are mindless eating machines. A world where the only relationship between species is that big fish eat little fish. Of course, stories of sensational danger and violent predation are seductive to wildlife film audiences. But is that what the ocean is really like?...
Dirty Pretty Things
Character: Celia
An undocumented immigrant finds a human heart in one of the toilets of the west London hotel where he works with other undocumented immigrants....
Retribution
Character: Angela Brickmann
When a mysterious caller puts a bomb under his car seat, Matt Turner begins a high-speed chase across the city to complete a specific series of tasks- all with his kids trapped in the back seat....
Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead
Character: Capt Magambo
A meeting in a London bus with jewel thief Lady Christina takes a turn for the worse for the Doctor when the bus takes a detour to a desert-like planet, where the deadly Swarm awaits....
The Friend
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Iris has had a long, complex friendship with Walter. Walter is an irresistible charmer, a brilliant author, a lover of many women, and a master at letting down loved ones. When he dies suddenly, Iris is left to deal with all he left behind — three ex-wives with unfinished business, his interrupted literary legacy, and his beloved beast Apollo. It's not that Iris doesn't like dogs, but this is Manhattan, and she’ll get kicked out of her building if they find out she’s pretty much trying to house ...
Macbeth
Character: Weird Sister
Anthony Sher and Harriet Walter star in a highly-acclaimed screen version of William Shakespeare's classic story of tyranny and ambition. On the stage this Royal Shakespeare Company presentation was universally lauded. Following sell-out seasons at Statford's Swan Theatre and in London, the production played Japan and in the United States, where The New York Times praised director Gregory Doran's interpretation as a "harrowing and disturbingly funny parable for the dawn of the 21st century". ...
Out of Darkness
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A unique story told by nine different actors which explores the haunting of a conscience by lost souls that won't let go....
Fallout
Character: Joyce Abena
A London policeman returns to the estate where he grew up to investigate the murder of a young boy. Adapted by the playwright from his 2002 play....
The Roof
Character: Another Fan
A brief comedy about a visit from a legendary theatre maker and his legion of fans....
ReEntry
Character: Alicia
A woman is grappling the disappearance of her husband after he enlists in a scientific experiment. A year later he is back, but she learns he's from a parallel dimension....
Mysterious Creatures
Character: Chanelle Pinkerton
Feature-length ITV drama based on real events. Bill and Wendy Ainscow (Timothy Spall and Brenda Blethyn) are a middle class, middle-aged Birmingham couple locked in a deeply dysfunctional relationship with their 32-year-old daughter Lisa (Rebekah Staton). In a culmination of years spent unsuccessfully trying to obtain a diagnosis and get state help to deal with with Lisa's condition - which eventually turns out to be Asperger's syndrome - Bill and Wendy are ultimately driven to desperate measure...
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
Character: Edith Sikelo
Against all the odds, a thirteen year old boy in Malawi invents an unconventional way to save his family and village from famine....
Mary Poppins Returns
Character: Miss Penny Farthing
Mary Poppins returns to the Banks family and helps them evade grave dangers by taking them on magical, musical adventures....
The Kid Who Would Be King
Character: Mrs. Lee
Old-school magic meets the modern world when young Alex stumbles upon the mythical sword Excalibur. He soon unites his friends and enemies, and they become knights who join forces with the legendary wizard Merlin. Together, they must save mankind from the wicked enchantress Morgana and her army of supernatural warriors....
The Little Mermaid
Character: The Queen
The youngest of King Triton’s daughters, and the most defiant, Ariel longs to find out more about the world beyond the sea, and while visiting the surface, falls for the dashing Prince Eric. With mermaids forbidden to interact with humans, Ariel makes a deal with the evil sea witch, Ursula, which gives her a chance to experience life on land, but ultimately places her life – and her father’s crown – in jeopardy....
Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel
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Since 2017, Letters Live has produced 11 shows at the Union Chapel, with no two shows being the same....
Statue Wars: One Summer in Bristol
Character: Narrator
Documentary following Bristol’s mayor, Marvin Rees, as he and the city respond to the extraordinary events which followed the toppling of the Colston Statue in the summer of 2020....
The Grey Man
Character: Sergeant
Kevin Dodds is a browbeaten deputy bank manager who devises a cunning plan to rob his own bank. Based on the Andy McNab novel....
The Same Storm
Character: Dionne Davis
Snapshots of the tumults of the COVID-19 pandemic....