Massaro Ncuti Gatwa (born October 15, 1992) is a Rwandan-Scottish actor. He rose to prominence as Eric Effiong on the Netflix comedy-drama series Sex Education, which earned him a BAFTA Scotland Award for Best Actor in Television and three BAFTA Television Award nominations for Best Male Comedy Performance. In 2022, Gatwa was announced as the fifteenth incarnation of the Doctor on the BBC series Doctor Who, making him the first black actor to headline the series.

Filmography

• 2027Bad Fairies — (voice)
• 2026Frank and Percy
• 2025Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War — The Doctor
• 2025National Theatre Live: The Importance of Being Earnest — Algernon Moncrieff
• 2025The Roses — Jeffrey
• Doctor Who — The Doctor
• 2024Doctor Who at the Proms — The Doctor (15)
• 2024Doctor Who: The Legend of Ruby Sunday & Empire of Death — The Doctor
• Masters of the Air — Lt. Robert H. Daniels
• 2023Barbie — Ken
• 2023Doctor Who: 60th Anniversary Specials — The Doctor (archive footage)
• Tales of the Tardis — The Doctor
• 2023The Coronation Concert — Romeo
• 2021The Last Letter from Your Lover — Nick
• 2019Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans — Timidius
• Sex Education — Eric Effiong
• 2016A Midsummer Night's Dream - Live at Shakespeare's Globe — Demetrius
• Stonemouth — Dougie
• Bob Servant — Male Customer
• First Day on Earth — Darren
• Passing Through — Executive Producer
• The Queen of Fashion — Michael Roberts

Appearances as themselves (12)

• Saturday Night Live UK — Self - Host, Self - Cameo (Uncredited)
• Doctor Who: Unleashed — Self - The Doctor
• 2023imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me — Self
• Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg — Self
• 2021Letters Live from the Archive: International Women’s Day — Self
• The Outsiders? — Self
• Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self
• Portrait Artist of the Year — Self
• The Graham Norton Show — Self
• The One Show — Self
• The Oscars — Self - Performer