1. Noma Dumezweni was born on 28 July 1969 and is a South African-British actress.
14 Facts About Noma Dumezweni
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Noma Dumezweni arrived in England as a refugee at the age of seven with her sister and mother.
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Noma Dumezweni first lived in Felixstowe, Suffolk, where she was educated, before moving to London at 18 years old.
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Noma Dumezweni performed in the 2014 Macbeth with Anthony Sher as the First Witch.
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Noma Dumezweni played Olyana in The Grainstone, Calphurnia in Julius Caesar, the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet, Morgan Le Fay in Le Morte d'Arthur, the Doctor in Little Eagles, and Alice in Adelaide Road.
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Noma Dumezweni starred in Linda at London's Royal Court Theatre in November 2015, stepping into the role vacated by Kim Cattrall with a few days' notice before press night.
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In December 2015, it was announced that Noma Dumezweni had been cast as Hermione Granger in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.
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Noma Dumezweni reprised her role on Broadway at the Lyric Theatre in 2018.
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Noma Dumezweni appeared on numerous television shows, and in 2018, she starred in Black Earth Rising, the Hugo Blick drama about the prosecution of war criminals.
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Noma Dumezweni played the marine biologist Fiffany in the HBO Max comedy series Made for Love.
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Noma Dumezweni plays Haley Fitzgerald, a powerhouse attorney hired by a wealthy New York psychotherapist to represent her husband, a pediatric cancer doctor who has been charged with the brutal killing of his mistress.
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In 2022, Noma Dumezweni appeared in the Netflix series The Watcher as the private investigator hired by the Brannock family, Theodora Birch.
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Noma Dumezweni has had several roles in feature films, including Miss Penny Farthing in Disney's Mary Poppins Returns in 2018.
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Noma Dumezweni voiced various roles in the BBC Radio 4 dramatic recordings of Ursula K Le Guin's Earthsea and The Left Hand of Darkness.