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Letitia Wright

Guyanese actress (born 1993)

Person

Born: 1993-01-01

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Film & TV

Acting · Georgetown, Guyana

Letitia Michelle Wright (born 31 October 1993) is a Guyanese-British actress. She began her career with guest roles in the television series Top Boy, Coming Up, Chasing Shadows, Humans, Doctor Who, and Black Mirror. For the latter, she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. She then had her breakthrough in the 2015 film Urban Hymn, for which the British Academy of Film and Television Arts…

Known for

Avengers: Secret Wars — Shuri2027
Avengers: Doomsday — Shuri2026
National Theatre at Home: The Story — Yvonne2026
Ironheart — Shuri (archive footage) (uncredited)2025
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever — Self2023
Surrounded — Mo Washington2023
Disney 100: Remember That — Self2023
Voices Rising: The Music of Wakanda Forever — Shuri (archive footage) / Self - Actress2023
20/20 Presents Black Panther: In Search of Wakanda — Self2022
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever — Shuri2022

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Country: GB
Active from: 1993-10-31

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 10
Total plays: 13

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Geant4—a simulation toolkit
· 2003 · cited 20,850x
Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,371x
Genome engineering using the CRISPR-Cas9 system
· 2013 · cited 10,736x
Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure
· 2003 · cited 10,030x
First‐Year <i>Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe</i> ( <i>WMAP</i> ) Observations: Determination of Cosmological Parameters
· 2003 · cited 9,185x

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Key facts

Born: ( 1993-10-31 ) 31 October 1993 (age 32) , Georgetown , Guyana
Citizenship: Guyana United Kingdom
Education: Northumberland Park Community School , Identity School of Acting
Occupation: Actress
Years active: 2006–present

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Key dates

Born: 1 January 1993

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: Michelle
Family name: Wright
Gender: female
Citizenship: United Kingdom
Place of birth: Georgetown
Occupation: film actor
Languages spoken: English language
Award: Jupiter Awards
Field of work: acting

Article

Letitia Michelle Wright (born 31 October 1993) is a Guyanese-British actress. She began her career with guest roles in the television series Top Boy, Coming Up, Chasing Shadows, Humans, Doctor Who, and Black Mirror. For the latter, she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. She then had her breakthrough for her role in the 2015 film Urban Hymn, for which the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) named Wright among the 2015 group of BAFTA Breakthrough Brits.

In 2018, she attained global recognition for her portrayal of Shuri in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Black Panther, for which she won an NAACP Image Award and a SAG Award. Wright reprised the role in Avengers: Infinity War (2018), Avengers: Endgame (2019), and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022). In 2019, she received the BAFTA Rising Star Award. She also appeared in Steve McQueen's 2020 anthology series Small Axe, which earned her a Satellite Award nomination.