Biography
Noma Dumezweni (born 28 July 1969) 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 an...
Known For
Complete Filmography
The Friend
2025
as Barbara
When a solitary writer adopts and bonds with a Great Dane that belonged to a late friend, she begins to come to terms with her past and her own creati...
ReEntry
2024
as 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...
Retribution
2023
as Angela Brickmann
When a mysterious caller plants a bomb under his car seat, a bank executive begins a high-speed chase across the city to complete a specific series of...
The Little Mermaid
2023
as 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 sur...
Soul of the Ocean
2023
as 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 wor...
The Same Storm
2022
as Dionne Davis
Snapshots of the tumults of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Statue Wars: One Summer in Bristol
2021
as 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 ...
Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel
2021
as (voiceover)
Since 2017, Letters Live has produced 11 shows at the Union Chapel, with no two shows being the same.
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
2019
as 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.
The Kid Who Would Be King
2019
as 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 b...
Mary Poppins Returns
2018
as Miss Penny Farthing
Mary Poppins returns to the Banks family and helps them evade grave dangers by taking them on magical, musical adventures.
The Roof
2016
as Another Fan
A brief comedy about a visit from a legendary theatre maker and his legion of fans.
The Marriage of Reason & Squalor
2015
With a name like Chlamydia Love, it comes as no surprise that the young lady in question is considered to be the office slut. Her colleagues also do n...
Out of Darkness
2013
A unique story told by nine different actors which explores the haunting of a conscience by lost souls that won't let go.
Teeth
2012
as Mrs. Taylor
A man's search for his wife leads him on a strange and unsettling journey. A story of lost love and parallel lives, of those that have disappeared and...
Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead
2009
as 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 plane...
Fallout
2008
as 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 Grey Man
2007
as 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.
Mysterious Creatures
2006
as 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 co...
Dirty Pretty Things
2002
as 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.
Macbeth
2001
as 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 stag...