---
name: "Gugu Mbatha-Raw"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/gugu-mbatha-raw"
fi1m_id: "gugu-mbatha-raw"
imdb_id: "nm1813221"
tmdb_id: 1216606
wikidata_id: "Q3119298"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "21 April 1983"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-22T23:39:27.346648+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Gugu Mbatha-Raw

## Identity

Gugu Mbatha-Raw

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/gugu-mbatha-raw
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** gugu-mbatha-raw
- **IMDb ID:** nm1813221
- **TMDB ID:** 1216606
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3119298
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gugu_Mbatha-Raw, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3119298, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1813221/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1216606

Actor. Born 21 April 1983 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 21 April 1983, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England UK
- **Also known as:** Gugulethu Sophia Mbatha, Gugulethu Mbatha, Gugulethu Mbatha-Raw, Gugu Mbatha Raw
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gugu_Mbatha-Raw, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3119298, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1813221/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1216606

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Loki*](https://film.one/tv/loki.md) (71)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Gugu Mbatha-Raw is a British actress. She trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art after earlier work with the National Youth Music Theatre. She appeared on stage as Juliet in *Romeo and Juliet* and Octavia in *Anthony and Cleopatra* at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester in 2005, and as Ophelia in *Hamlet* in the West End and on Broadway in 2009.

Her screen roles include Tish Jones in *Doctor Who* (2007), Kelly in the *Black Mirror* episode "San Junipero" (2016), and Judge Ravonna Renslayer in the Disney+ series *Loki* (2021–2023). She played the title role in the film *Belle* (2013) and appeared in *Beauty and the Beast* (2017), *A Wrinkle in Time* (2018) and *The Morning Show* (2019).

Mbatha-Raw was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 2017 for services to drama and became a global Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in 2021.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Loki* (2021), Fi1m 71, as Ravonna Renslayer — [page](https://film.one/tv/loki.md)

## Complete filmography (58)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Possession* (2026), series, as Claudia · Executive Producer
- *The War Between the Land and the Sea* (2025), series, as Salt
- *The Woman in Cabin 10* (2025), as Rowan
- *Fuze* (2025), as Zuzana
- *Lift* (2024), as Abby Gladwell
- *Surface* (2022), series, as Sophie Ellis, Tess Caldwell / Sophie Ellis · Executive Producer
- *The Girl Before* (2021), series, as Jane Cavendish · Associate Producer
- *Loki* (2021), series, as Judge Ravonna Renslayer, Ravonna Renslayer — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/tv/loki.md)
- *Come Away* (2020), as Alice Littleton (Adult)
- *Summerland* (2020), as Vera
- *Misbehaviour* (2020), as Jennifer Hosten - Miss Grenada
- *The Morning Show* (2019), series, as Hannah Shoenfeld
- *Motherless Brooklyn* (2019), as Laura Rose
- *The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance* (2019), series, as Seladon (voice)
- *Fast Color* (2019), as Ruth
- *Farming* (2018), as Ms. Dapo
- *A Wrinkle in Time* (2018), as Dr. Kate Murry
- *Irreplaceable You* (2018), as Abbie
- *The Cloverfield Paradox* (2018), as Ava Hamilton
- *After the Storm* (2017), as Mother
- *Beauty and the Beast* (2017), as Plumette
- *Miss Sloane* (2016), as Esme Manucharian
- *Easy* (2016), series, as Sophie
- *Free State of Jones* (2016), as Rachel
- *The Whole Truth* (2016), as Janelle
- *Concussion* (2015), as Prema Mutiso
- *Jupiter Ascending* (2015), as Famulus
- *Beyond the Lights* (2014), as Noni Jean
- *9 Kisses* (2014), as Bride
- *Belle* (2013), as Dido Elizabeth Belle
- *Odd Thomas* (2013), as Viola Peabody
- *Touch* (2012), series, as Clea Hopkins
- *Black Mirror* (2011), series, as Kelly Booth — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/tv/black-mirror.md)
- *Larry Crowne* (2011), as Talia
- *Undercovers* (2010), series, as Samantha Bloom
- *All My Dreams on VHS* (2009), as Erica
- *Act of God* (2009), as Rose
- *Lost in Austen* (2008), series, as Pirhana
- *Bonekickers* (2008), series, as Viv Davis
- *Fallout* (2008), as Shanice Roberts
- *Walk Away and I Stumble* (2007), as Nurse
- *Straightheads* (2007), as Young PA
- *Dead Clever: The Life and Crimes of Julie Bottomley* (2007), as Jessica
- *Born Equal* (2006), as Girl at King's Cross Station
- *Viva Blackpool* (2006), as Pretty Young Woman
- *Vital Signs* (2006), series, as Eve
- *Walk Away and I Stumble* (2005), series, as Nurse
- *Doctor Who* (2005), series, as Tish Jones — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/doctor-who-2005.md)
- *Agatha Christie's Marple* (2004), series, as Tina Argyle
- *Spooks* (2002), series, as Jenny — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/tv/spooks.md)
- *Bad Girls* (1999), series, as Fidelity
- *Holby City* (1999), series, as Colette Hill
- *Trial & Retribution* (1997), series, as Jenny Miller
- *TRINITY*, series, as Commander Katherine Decker
- *An Untamed State*, as Mireille Duval Jameson
- *Blood Ties*, as Detective Reese Rezek
- *Nobody’s Heart*, as Lily
- *Seacole*, as Mary Seacole

## Gallery

- ![08/01/2026. London, United Kingdom. Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper meets with UNHCR Goodwill Ambassadors, Anita Rani and Gugu Mbatha-Raw to discuss the conflic](https://film.one/media/person/1293987/gallery-4ba4981b7dd0.jpg) 08/01/2026. London, United Kingdom. Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper meets with UNHCR Goodwill Ambassadors, Anita Rani and Gugu Mbatha-Raw to discuss the conflic — Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/2026_Gugu_Mbatha-Raw_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-2026_Gugu_Mbatha-Raw_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Gugu Mbatha-Raw](https://film.one/media/person/1293987/gallery-5086ff4be0e3.jpg) Gugu Mbatha-Raw — Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/57/2026_Gugu_Mbatha-Raw_-_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Gugu Mbatha-Raw at the Newport Beach Film Festival (UK Honours) on January 29, 2020.](https://film.one/media/person/1293987/gallery-6b73b56d6bc1.jpg) Gugu Mbatha-Raw at the Newport Beach Film Festival (UK Honours) on January 29, 2020. — Patrick L., CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Gugu_Mbatha-Raw_by_Patrick_Lovell%2C_January_2020.jpg/1280px-Gugu_Mbatha-Raw_by_Patrick_Lovell%2C_January_2020.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Gugu Mbatha-Raw](https://film.one/media/person/1293987/gallery-f9245c415907.jpg) Gugu Mbatha-Raw — Image via TMDB
- ![Gugu Mbatha-Raw](https://film.one/media/person/1293987/gallery-f3b2c05bf4ab.jpg) Gugu Mbatha-Raw — Image via TMDB
- ![Gugu Mbatha-Raw](https://film.one/media/person/1293987/gallery-e2a8fc423bd8.jpg) Gugu Mbatha-Raw — Image via TMDB
- ![Gugu Mbatha-Raw](https://film.one/media/person/1293987/gallery-84d1392fb0c4.jpg) Gugu Mbatha-Raw — Image via TMDB
- ![Gugu Mbatha-Raw](https://film.one/media/person/1293987/gallery-06a307b8622f.jpg) Gugu Mbatha-Raw — Image via TMDB
- ![Gugu Mbatha-Raw](https://film.one/media/person/1293987/gallery-62bf16679635.jpg) Gugu Mbatha-Raw — Image via TMDB

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