Rotten Tomatoes
Cancel Movies Tv shows FanStore News Showtimes

Noma Dumezweni

Highest Rated: 100% The Friend (2024)

Lowest Rated: 30% Retribution (2023)

Birthday: Jul 28, 1969

Birthplace: Mbabane, Eswatini

As well known for her roles on stage as for her roles on screen, actor Noma Dumezweni first fell in love with acting while attending classes at Wolsey Youth Theatre in Ipswich. Born in Swaziland in 1969, Dumezweni lived in a number of African countries with her mother and sister before the family settled in England when she was seven. Though Dumezweni would opt not to pursue any formal training in acting, she dedicated herself to learning her craft in the real world, and her last name-which, in Xhosa, means "famous in the world"-seemed to foretell of her future success. Dumezweni would begin working with the Royal Shakespeare Company, which led to her television debut in a 2001 RSC adaptation of "Macbeth" (BBC, 2001) that aired on the BBC. The following year found her playing the role of Celia in the independent feature "Dirty Pretty Things" (2002). Dumezweni would continue to nurture a vibrant career in theater as well, even winning an Olivier Award for her performance in a production of Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun" at the Young Vic in 2005. The Royal Shakespeare Company would also continue to be one of Dumezweni's main outlets, as she starred in the troupe's Roundhouse Season in plays like "Romeo and Juliet," "The Winter's Tale," and "Julius Caesar." She would earn scores of positive reviews for her starring run in the play "Linda" at the Royal Court Theatre in 2015, and that same year would find her name popping up in headlines again when she was cast as Hermione in the hotly anticipated play "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child."

Show Less Show More

Highest rated movies

100% The Friend
Watchlist
86% 88% The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind Watchlist 79% 64% Mary Poppins Returns Watchlist
77% 83% The Same Storm
Watchlist
66% 94% The Little Mermaid Watchlist
38% 20% The Incident
Watchlist
30% 66% Retribution Watchlist

Filmography

Movies

Credit
100% No Score Yet The Friend Unknown (Character) - 2024
30% 66% Retribution Angela Brickmann (Character) $6.9M 2023
66% 94% The Little Mermaid Queen Selina (Character) $298.2M 2023
77% 83% The Same Storm Dionne Davis (Character) - 2021
86% 88% The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind Edith Sikelo (Character) - 2019
79% 64% Mary Poppins Returns Miss Penny Farthing (Character) $172.0M 2018
38% 20% The Incident Eva (Character) - 2015

TV

Credit
95% 75% Best Interests Samantha (Character) 2023
No Score Yet No Score Yet Nature Narrator 2023
54% 35% The Watcher Theodora (Character) 2022
97% 81% Made for Love Fiffany (Character) 2021-2022
75% 66% The Undoing Haley Gibson (Character) 2020
79% 77% Black Earth Rising Alice Munezero (Character) 2018
72% 75% Electric Dreams Senior Ageny Okhile (Character) 2017
90% 64% Doctor Who Unknown (Guest Star) 2008
No Score Yet No Score Yet Holby City Hannah Keelan (Character) 2003