Noma Dumezweni

Noma Dumezweni Biography

Noma Dumezweni (born 1969) is an English actress. In 2006, she won an Olivier Award for her role in A Raisin in the Sun. She stars as Hermione Granger in the original West End run of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.

Personal life

Born in Swaziland, of South African parents, Dumezweni lived in Botswana, Kenya and Uganda before coming to England with her family as a child. She first lived in Ipswich, Suffolk, where she was educated, before moving to London.

Career

Theatre

Dumezweni's work in theatre includes: President of an Empty Room and The Hour We Knew Nothing Of Each Other at the National Theatre, London; Breakfast with Mugabe, Antony and Cleopatra and Much Ado About Nothing for the RSC; A Raisin in the Sun for the Young Vic at the Lyric Hammersmith, London (for which she won her Laurence Olivier Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role); A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Master and Margarita, Nathan the Wise and The Coffee House at Chichester Festival Theatre, Six Characters in Search of an Author in the Chichester Festival production at the Gielgud Theatre and The Bogus Woman at the Traverse and the Bush. In spring of 2009 she appeared in the RSC's The Winter's Tale. In 2013-2014 she appeared in A Human Being Died That Night at the Fugard Theater in Cape Town, the Market Theatre in Johannesburg, which later transferred to the Hampstead Theatre in London.

She starred in Linda at London's Royal Court Theatre in November 2015, stepping into the role vacated by Kim Cattrall with a few days notice before press night. Awarding the production five stars, the Daily Telegraph's Chief Theatre Critic Dominic Cavendish wrote "If they can bottle and mass-produce whatever it is that Noma Dumezweni has got then, please, I want to order a life-time"?s supply."

In December 2015 it was announced that Dumezweni had been cast as Hermione Granger in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. On the announcement, theatre critic Kate Maltby described her as "an actress who consistently engages and enthrals." The casting of the dark-skinned Dumezweni as Hermione sparked fervent discussion, to which J.K. Rowling responded that Hermione's skin was never specified as white.

Film and television

Year	Title	Format	Role	Notes
2001	Macbeth	TV film	Witch
2002	Dirty Pretty Things	Film	Celia
2003	Holby City	TV series	Hannah Keelan	Episode: "The One You Love: Part 2"
2005	Silent Witness	TV series	DS Erin Jacobs	Episodes: "Ghosts: Part 1" and "Ghosts: Part 2"
2005	The Bill	TV series	Building Society Manager	Episode: 403
2006	Mysterious Creatures	TV film	Chanelle Pinkerton
	Holby City	TV series	Hesta Mukaka	Episode: "Fly Me to the Moon"
	After Thomas	TV film	Paula Murray
2006-8	Little Miss Jocelyn	TV series		Episodes: Series 1, Episode 5 and Series 2, Episode 2
2007	Shameless	TV series	Mrs. Newman	Episode: Series 4, Episode 5
	The Grey Man	TV film	Sergeant
	Fallen Angel	TV series	Carla
	New Tricks	TV series	Sophie Oyekambi	Episode: "Casualty"
	EastEnders	TV series	D.C. Wright	Episode: 17 August 2007
2008	The Last Enemy	TV series	Valerie	Episode: Series 1, Episode 1
	The Colour of Magic	TV film	Marchessa
	Fallout	TV film	Joyce Abena
2008-9	Doctor Who	TV series	Captain Erisa Magambo	Episodes: "Turn Left" and "Planet of the Dead"
2013	Frankie	TV series	Angie Rascoe
2015	Midsomer Murders	TV series	Ailsa Probert	Episode 17.2 "Murder by Magic"

Radio

In radio, she has appeared in Jambula Tree, Seven Wonders of the Divided World, From Fact to Fiction, From Freedom to the Future, Handprint, Jane's Story, Sagila, Shylock, The Farming of Bones, The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, The Seven Ages of Car, The Bogus Woman and Breakfast with Mugabe.