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.

Known For

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Law & Order

Midsomer Murders

Doctor Who

Silent Witness

Nature

New Tricks

Only Murders in the Building

All Movies (25)

• Tusker: Brotherhood of Elephants2026 · as Narrator
• Lions of the Skeleton Coast2025 · as Narrator (voice)
• The Friend2025 · as Barbara
• ReEntry2024 · as Alicia
• Retribution2023 · as Angela Brickmann
• The Little Mermaid2023 · as The Queen
• Soul of the Ocean2023 · as Narrator (voice)
• The Same Storm2022 · as Dionne Davis
• Statue Wars: One Summer in Bristol2021 · as Narrator
• Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel2021 · as (voiceover)
• The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind2019 · as Edith Sikelo
• The Kid Who Would Be King2019 · as Mrs. Lee
• Mary Poppins Returns2018 · as Miss Penny Farthing
• The Roof2016 · as Another Fan
• The Marriage of Reason & Squalor2015
• Out of Darkness2013
• Magpie Sings the Blues2012 · as Dr. Marcia Hammond
• Teeth2012 · as Mrs. Taylor
• Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead2009 · as Capt Magambo
• Fallout2008 · as Joyce Abena
• The Grey Man2007 · as Sergeant
• Mysterious Creatures2006 · as Chanelle Pinkerton
• Dirty Pretty Things2002 · as Celia
• Macbeth2001 · as Weird Sister
• Prima Facie—

All TV Shows (21)

• Murderbot2025 · as Mensah
• Presumed Innocent2024 · as Judge Laryn Lyttle
• Best Interests2023 · as Samantha
• The Watcher2022 · as Theodora Birch
• Only Murders in the Building2021 · as Maxine Spear
• Made for Love2021 · as Dr. Fiffany Hodeck
• The Undoing2020 · as Hayley Fitzgerald
• Normal People2020 · as Gillian
• Black Earth Rising2018 · as Alice Munezero
• Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams2017 · as Senior Agent Okhile
• The Colour of Magic2008 · as Marchessa
• The Last Enemy2008 · as Valerie
• Fallen Angel2007 · as Carla
• Doctor Who2005 · as Captain Magambo
• Shameless2004 · as Mrs. Newman
• New Tricks2004
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit1999 · as Chief Kathryn Tynan
• Midsomer Murders1997 · as Ailsa Probert
• Silent Witness1996
• Law & Order1990 · as Chief Kathryn Tynan
• Nature1982 · as Narrator (voice)