Wunmi Mosaku

Wunmi Mosaku
Mosaku at The Old Vic, 2010
Born
Oluwunmi Mosaku

1986 (age 37–38)[1]
NationalityBritish, Nigerian
EducationRoyal Academy of Dramatic Art (BA)
OccupationActress
Years active2006–present

Oluwunmi Mosaku (born 1986)[1] is a Nigerian-born British actress.[2][3] She is known for her roles as Joy in the BBC Two miniseries Moses Jones (2009) and Holly Lawson in the ITV series Vera (2011–2012). She won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Gloria Taylor in the TV film Damilola, Our Loved Boy (2016). In 2019, she starred in the fifth series of Luther.[4] In 2020, she starred as Ruby Baptiste in HBO's Lovecraft Country, and starting in 2021, starred as Hunter B-15 in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) television series Loki.

She was nominated for the BAFTA for Best Actress and won the BIFA Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a British Independent Film for her role as Rial in the film His House (2020).[5]

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference npg was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "TEN MINUTES WITH... WUNMI MOSAKU". Arise Live. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 23 November 2014.
  3. ^ Saner, Emine (5 January 2018). "Bafta-winner Wunmi Mosaku: 'I'm glad my eyes were opened after Brexit. It was an outburst of ugliness'". The Guardian.
  4. ^ Wise, Louis (23 December 2018). "Wunmi Mosaku interview: Idris Elba's new Luther sidekick on how she got into acting by watching Annie". The Times. Retrieved 6 January 2019.
  5. ^ Wade, Joseph (18 February 2021). "2020 British Independent Film Awards – Winners List". Retrieved 23 February 2021.

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