EE BAFTA Rising Star Award

Her role in Black Mirror earned her a primetime Emmy nomination before the Black Panther franchise catapulted her to global fame as the first ever Black woman to lead a Marvel film.

In 2019, she won the BAFTA EE Rising Star Award, the only BAFTA Film Award voted for by the public.

She's since expanded into producing, writing, and directing, founding her own production company, 3.16 Productions, and making her directorial debut last year with Highway to the Moon.

And she's currently making her National Theatre debut in The Story, playing an ambitious young journalist at the center of a story about race, truth, and the pursuit of a headline.