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.

Filmography

• 2026Prima Facie
• The Shards — Teacher
• Murderbot — Mensah
• 2025The Friend — Barbara
• Presumed Innocent — Judge Laryn Lyttle
• 2024ReEntry — Alicia
• Best Interests — Samantha
• 2023Retribution — Angela Brickmann
• 2023The Little Mermaid — The Queen
• 2022The Same Storm — Dionne Davis
• The Watcher — Theodora Birch
• 2021Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel — (voiceover)
• Made for Love — Dr. Fiffany Hodeck
• Only Murders in the Building — Maxine Spear
• 2021Statue Wars: One Summer in Bristol — Narrator
• Normal People — Gillian
• The Undoing — Hayley Fitzgerald
• 2019The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind — Edith Sikelo
• 2019The Kid Who Would Be King — Mrs. Lee
• Black Earth Rising — Alice Munezero
• 2018Mary Poppins Returns — Miss Penny Farthing
• Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams — Senior Agent Okhile
• 2016The Roof — Another Fan
• 2015The Marriage of Reason & Squalor
• 2013Out of Darkness
• 2012Magpie Sings the Blues — Dr. Marcia Hammond
• 2012Teeth — Mrs. Taylor
• 2010The Color of Magic 2in1 — Marchessa
• 2009Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead — Capt Magambo
• 2008Fallout — Joyce Abena
• The Colour of Magic — Marchessa
• The Last Enemy — Valerie
• Fallen Angel — Carla
• 2007The Grey Man — Sergeant
• 2006Mysterious Creatures — Chanelle Pinkerton
• Doctor Who — Captain Magambo
• New Tricks
• Shameless — Mrs. Newman
• 2002Dirty Pretty Things — Celia
• 2001Macbeth — Weird Sister
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Kathryn Tynan
• Midsomer Murders — Ailsa Probert
• Silent Witness
• Law & Order — Chief Kathryn Tynan
• Nature — Narrator (voice)

Appearances as themselves (3)

• 2026Tusker: Brotherhood of Elephants — Self - Narrator
• 2025Lions of the Skeleton Coast — Self - Narrator
• 2022Soul of the Ocean — Self - Narrator