Gugu Mbatha-Raw | Biography Age, Parents , Movies, Education,Career & Net Worth

Gugu Mbatha-Raw is a brilliant actress who has been working in the industry since 2005. Besides this she is also a soundtrack and producer and has prospered in all her professions side by side. She has completed over 50 movies or TV series till now in her career and few are to be released this year also. And she is currently 40 years old and will soon turn 41 years old in 2024 as she was born on 21st of April back in the year 1983.  

Gugu Mbatha-Raw Age 

On April 21, 1983, she was born in Oxford, England's Oxfordshire, in the United Kingdom. In 2024, she will be 41 years old, and her birthday is always April 21st.  

Gugu Mbatha-Raw Parents 

Her parents are Patrick Mbatha and Anne Raw. Patrick Mbatha is a South African doctor while her mother, Anne is an English nurse. Gugu’s parents separated when she was just one year old.   

She was therefore raised by her mother in Witney, Oxfordshire. The separation did not affect the relationship of Patrick and Sophia since the two are still close till date. 

Gugu Mbatha-Raw Movies

• Beyond the Lights – 2014 
• Belle – 2013
•  Fast Color – 2018
•  A Wrinkle in Time – 
•  The Cloverfield Paradox –
•  Free State of Jones – 2016 
• Beauty and the Beast – 2017 
• Miss Sloane – 2016 
• Irreplaceable You – 2018 
• Concussion – 2015 
• Motherless Brooklyn – 2019 
• The Whole Truth – 2016 
• Larry Crowne – 2011 
• Jupiter Ascending – 2015 
• Farming – 2018 
• Misbehaviour Odd Thomas – 2013
•  Come Away Straightheads – 2007 
• Walk Away and I Stumble All My Dreams on VHS Dead Clever – 2007
•  Summerland Born Equal – 2006 
• Act of God – 2009
•  Fallout – 2008
•  Black Mirror: San Junipero & Nosedive – 2016 

Gugu Mbatha-Raw Education 

Gugulethu developed interest in acting, dance, and musical theatre from a tender age. She attended the Henry Box School and joined a local acting group known as Dramascope when she was eleven years old. 

She managed to make appearances every year in the pantomime at Oxford Playhouse. When she became a teenager, Sophia joined the Oxford Youth Music Theatre. 

Sophia also took dance lessons at the Judy Tompsett School of Dance. Later on, in 2001, the gorgeous dancer joined the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art located in London after she won a scholarship.  

Gugu Mbatha-Raw Career  

In 2004, she made her television debut, playing Collette Hill in one episode of the BBC One medical drama TV series “Holby City”. 

Her first leading role in a television series came in 2011 when she was cast as Clea Hopkins on the Fox television series Touch opposite Kiefer Sutherland. 

Gugu Mbatha-Raw made her acting debut in the 2007 film, “Straightheads”, where she played a minor role as  Young PA. 

In 2013, she starred in Amma Asante’s “Belle”, a British drama film, playing the eponymous historical character, Dido Elizabeth Belle, a mixed-race woman raised as a gentlewoman in her paternal uncle Chief Justice Mansfield’s household in 18th-century England.

 It was her first breakthrough role for which she received a British Independent Film Awards Best Performance by an Actress in a British Independent Film. 

Gugu Mbatha-Raw Net Worth 

The actress has an estimated net worth of 500 thousand dollars to 1 million dollars.