Personal Info
Birth date
1969-07-28 (56 Years)
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Swaziland, South Africa
Also known as
-Noma Dumezweni
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 and, in 2018, was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play.
Filmography
Midsomer Murders
7.5
Overview:
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.Doctor Who
7.6
Overview:
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.Murderbot
7.355
Overview:
In a high-tech future, a rogue security robot secretly gains free will. To stay hidden, it reluctantly joins a new mission protecting scientists on a dangerous planet...even though it just wants to binge soap operas.Silent Witness
7.576
Overview:
A team of exceptional forensic pathologists and scientists investigate heinous crimes and use their skills to catch the people responsible.Only Murders in the Building
8.444
Overview:
Three strangers share an obsession with true crime and suddenly find themselves wrapped up in one.The Little Mermaid
6.301
Overview:
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.Presumed Innocent
7.911
Overview:
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.Nature
8.1
Overview:
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.New Tricks
7.4
Overview:
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.Mary Poppins Returns
6.507
Overview:
Mary Poppins returns to the Banks family and helps them evade grave dangers by taking them on magical, musical adventures.Retribution
6.584
Overview:
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 tasks — all with his kids trapped in the back seat.The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
7.895
Overview:
Against all the odds, a thirteen year old boy in Malawi invents an unconventional way to save his family and village from famine.Normal People
8.124
Overview:
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 Watcher
7.109
Overview:
A family moves into their suburban dream home, only to discover they've inherited a nightmare.The Undoing
7.4
Overview:
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.The Colour of Magic
6.7
Overview:
As Rincewind involuntarily becomes a guide to the naive tourist Twoflower, they find themselves forced to flee the city of Ankh-Morpork to escape a terrible fire, and begin on a journey across the Disc. Unknown to them, their journey and fate is being decided by the Gods playing a board game the whole time.Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
7.035
Overview:
A diverse anthology of ambitious, moving tales inspired by Philip K Dick's short stories.The Kid Who Would Be King
6.197
Overview:
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.Made for Love
6.7
Overview:
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.The Friend
6.6
Overview:
Starring Oscar nominees Naomi Watts and Bill Murray, alongside Bing the Great Dane, THE FRIEND is an unexpected and heartwarming journey through love, friendship, grief, and healing.Black Earth Rising
6.701
Overview:
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.Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead
7.488
Overview:
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 Grey Man
NYR
Overview:
Kevin Dodds is a browbeaten deputy bank manager who devises a cunning plan to rob his own bank. Based on the Andy McNab novel.Soul of the Ocean
2
Overview:
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?The Marriage of Reason & Squalor
NYR
Overview:
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 not miss an occasion to ridicule her when she talks about her imaginary prince on a white horse. Chlamydia couldn’t care less. She just has to jump into a flushing toilet bowl to meet her beloved, the handsome surgeon Algernon Hertz. But her precious prince keeps her waiting and locals turn out to be a whole lot more savage that what is mentioned in the glossy tourist brochures. Chlamydia has to go on the run and ends up in the lair of the misanthropic scientist Helmut Mandragorass, a specimen of the male race not exactly blessed with dashing looks as his protruding forehead dwarves everything else. Paradise isn’t always what it seems to be.Best Interests
6.4
Overview:
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?Dirty Pretty Things
6.9
Overview:
An undocumented immigrant finds a human heart in one of the toilets of the west London hotel where he works with other undocumented immigrants.Fallen Angel
4.5
Overview:
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.Acting
2025Murderbot (10 Episodes) as Mensah
2025Lions of the Skeleton Coast as Narrator (voice)
2025The Friend as Barbara
2024ReEntry as Alicia
2024Presumed Innocent (6 Episodes) as Judge Laryn Lyttle
2023Retribution as Angela Brickmann
2023Best Interests (4 Episodes) as Samantha
2023The Little Mermaid as The Queen
2023Soul of the Ocean as Narrator (voice)
2022The Same Storm as Dionne Davis
2022The Watcher (7 Episodes) as Theodora Birch
2021Only Murders in the Building (2 Episodes) as Maxine Spear
2021Statue Wars: One Summer in Bristol as Narrator
2021Made for Love (16 Episodes) as Dr. Fiffany Hodeck
2021Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel as (voiceover)
2020The Undoing (4 Episodes) as Hayley Fitzgerald
2020Normal People (1 Episode) as Gillian
2019The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind as Edith Sikelo
2019The Kid Who Would Be King as Mrs. Lee
2018Mary Poppins Returns as Miss Penny Farthing
2018Black Earth Rising (8 Episodes) as Alice Munezero
2017Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams (1 Episode) as Senior Agent Okhile
2016The Roof as Another Fan
2015The Marriage of Reason & Squalor as Unknown
2013Out of Darkness as Unknown
2012Magpie Sings the Blues as Dr. Marcia Hammond
2012Teeth as Mrs. Taylor
2009Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead as Capt Magambo
2008Fallout as Joyce Abena
2008The Colour of Magic (1 Episode) as Marchessa
2007Fallen Angel (3 Episodes) as Carla
2007The Grey Man as Sergeant
2006Mysterious Creatures as Chanelle Pinkerton
2005Doctor Who (1 Episode) as Captain Magambo
2004New Tricks (1 Episode) as Unknown
2002Dirty Pretty Things as Celia
2001Macbeth as Weird Sister
1997Midsomer Murders (1 Episode) as Ailsa Probert
1996Silent Witness (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1982Nature (2 Episodes) as Narrator (voice)