Age: 43
female
Gugulethu Sophia Mbatha-Raw, MBE (/ˈɡuːɡuːəmˈbætərɔː/; born 21 April 1983) is a British actress. She began acting at the National Youth Music Theatre and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She gained acclaim for her roles as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet and Octavia in Anthony and Cleopatra in 2005 at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester. She made her West End and Broadway debut, portraying Ophelia in Hamlet in 2009. For her role as the titular character in Jessica Swale's 2015 play Nell Gwynn, she received an Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress nomination. Her early television roles include Doctor Who(2007), the NBC series Undercovers (2010), and FOX's Touch (2012). She had her breakthrough with the British period drama film Belle (2013), for which she won the BIFA for Best Actress. After roles in the films Beyond the Lights (2014) and Miss Sloane (2016), she co-starred in the Emmy Award-winning Black Mirror episode "San Junipero" (2016), for which she received acclaim. Her other film roles include Beauty and the Beast (2017), A Wrinkle in Time (2018), Motherless Brooklyn (2019), Misbehaviour (2020), and Summerland (2020). She has also acted in the Apple TV+ drama series The Morning Show (2019) and the Disney+ series Loki (2021–present). In 2017, Mbatha-Raw was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) by Queen Elizabeth II for services to drama. In February 2021, Mbatha-Raw was appointed a global Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Description above from the Wikipedia article Gugu Mbatha-Raw, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw
Cordelia Flakk
for Cordelia Flakk in Lost in a Good Book
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Thursday Next tries to build a quiet life after her last case, but the world around her starts to fracture. A political storm rises. A lost Shakespeare play reappears at the perfect moment. The powerful Goliath Corporation moves in the shadows. A new threat targets Thursday’s family. Reality feels unstable and someone is rewriting lives. To fight back, Thursday pushes deeper into fiction than ever. She learns to “bookjump,” entering stories without machines. Inside the vast universe of literature she meets Jurisfiction, a secret police force that protects the order of books. Miss Havisham becomes her volatile mentor as Thursday trains, solves crises inside classic novels, and uncovers traces of a hidden enemy manipulating memories. As pressure mounts in the real world and inside fiction, Thursday races to expose the conspiracy behind the political rise of a dangerous figure, the stolen manuscript at the center of the chaos, and the force trying to erase parts of her life. She crosses between worlds, evades time-agents and corporate hunters, and chases the truth buried in her own memories. The story builds toward a showdown that tests Thursday’s loyalty to her family, her world, and the fragile boundary between fiction and reality.
