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| name = Wunmi Mosaku | image = Wunmi Mosaku.jpg | caption =Mosaku at The Old Vic, Sunday, 14 November, 2010 | birth_name = Oluwunmi Mosaku | birth_date = 1986[1] | birth_place = Zaria, Nigeria | alma_mater = Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (2007) | occupation = Actress | yearsactive = 2006–present |}}Wunmi Mosaku (born 1986) is a Nigerian-born British actress,[2] known for her roles as Joy in the BBC Two miniseries Moses Jones (2009) and Holly Lawson in the ITV series Vera (2011–12). She won the 2017 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.[3] Early lifeMosaku was born in Nigeria, and subsequently emigrated to Manchester, England, when she was 1. She attended Trinity Church of England High School and Xaverian Sixth Form College. She also sang for eleven years in the Manchester Girls Choir. Her parents were both professors in Nigeria but were unable to do the same jobs in the UK. Her mother started a business and her father ended up returning to Nigeria.[3] CareerMosaku graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 2007 and made her stage debut at the Arcola Theatre in a production of Pedro Calderón de la Barca's The Great Theatre of the World. Since then she has also appeared in Rough Crossings, directed by Rupert Goold and based on the book by Simon Schama, at the Lyric Hammersmith; The Vertical Hour by David Hare and Truth and Reconciliation, both at the Royal Court Theatre and Mules at the Young Vic. In 2009 she appeared in Katrina a verbatim play which told six people's stories of their struggles of survival when Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans August 2005. Mosaku was originally cast as Sophie in the UK premiere of Ruined by Lynn Nottage at the Almeida Theatre but had to pull out due to an injury. In 2008, she appeared in the first of the UNDEREXPOSED exhibitions at the National Portrait Gallery designed to raise the profile of black role models and celebrates the talent that exists among the Black British community. Her photo also appeared on Commercial Way, Peckham, London, as part of the exhibition. In 2009, she starred in the BBC Two series Moses Jones, for which she won Best Actress in a Miniseries at the Roma Fiction Festival. She featured on the front cover of Screen International magazine June–July 2009 as one of the UK Stars of Tomorrow, and in 2011 was featured in Nylon Magazine{{'}}s 2011 Young Hollywood issue. In 2010, Wunmi Mosaku was named one of The Seven Fresh Faces of Toronto International Film Festival, for I Am Slave,[4] in which she starred. She plays Malia, a girl who has been kidnapped from her village in Sudan, and sold into slavery. For her performance Mosaku won awards such as Best Actress at the Birmingham Black Film Festival, Best Onscreen performance at the Cultural Diversity Awards and Best Female performance at the Screen Nation Awards. In 2011 Mosaku joined Vera and played the role of Holly Lawson but left the show after just one year. In 2015, Mosaku played the part of Quentina, a traffic warden, in the three-part BBC series Capital based on John Lanchester's novel of the same name.[5] In 2016, she appeared in Playtest, an episode of the anthology series Black Mirror. Mosaku won the 2017 BAFTA TV Award for Best Supporting Actress for playing Gloria Taylor in the TV film Damilola, Our Loved Boy. Personal lifeWhen asked to list her personal heroes, Mosaku included her grandmother Anike Adisa, whom she described as having "taught me so many lessons"; actor Albert Finney who Mosaku said was her inspiration for attending the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art; her colleague and former instructor at RADA, William Gaskill; Paul Newman, who she stated she admired not just for his acting but also for his philanthropic efforts with Newman's Own; and Oprah Winfrey, who Mosaku said she considers "a superwoman."[6] FilmographyTelevision
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References1. ^{{cite web |title=Wunmi Mosaku. (1986-), Stage and screen actress |url=https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp129942/wunmi-mosaku |publisher=National Portrait Gallery |accessdate=6 January 2019}} 2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.ariselive.com/articles/ten-minutes-with-wunmi-mosaku/102790/|title=TEN MINUTES WITH... WUNMI MOSAKU|website=Arise Live|accessdate=November 23, 2014}} 3. ^1 {{cite news |last1=Wise |first1=Louis |title=Wunmi Mosaku interview: Idris Elba's new Luther sidekick on how she got into acting by watching Annie |url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/culture/wunmi-mosaku-interview-idris-elba-new-luther-sidekick-xxhm7snpd |accessdate=6 January 2019 |work=The Times |date=23 December 2018 |language=en}} 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.nigeriafilms.com/news/8993/17/i-am-slaves-wunmi-mosaku-on-being-mende-nazer.html|website=Nigeria Films|accessdate=November 24, 2014|title=I AM SLAVE’S WUNMI MOSAKU ON BEING MENDE NAZER|author=Peter J. Thompson}} 5. ^{{cite web | title= BBC One: Capital |url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06qrqlf| author=| website= BBC Online | accessdate= 24 November 2015}} 6. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/9867681/Wunmi-Mosaku-my-heroes-and-heroines.html|title=Wunmi Mosaku: my heroes and heroines|location=United Kingdom|accessdate=November 24, 2014|publisher=The Telegraph}} External links
16 : 1986 births|Living people|21st-century English actresses|21st-century Nigerian actresses|Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art|Black English actresses|English film actresses|English people of Yoruba descent|Yoruba actresses|English radio actresses|English stage actresses|English television actresses|People from Zaria|Nigerian emigrants to the United Kingdom|Actresses from Manchester|BAFTA winners (people) |
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