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Letitia Wright

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Letitia Wright

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Also known as Letitia Michelle Wright

actrice guyano-britannique

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Letitia Michelle Wright is a British and Guyanese actress who began her professional career in 2011. Born in Georgetown, Guyana, she holds citizenship in both Guyana and the United Kingdom. Her field of work is acting, and she has received a Jupiter Award. She speaks English and has five credited works.

Wright has shared perspectives on the nature of art and emotion, noting that art is subjective and that individuals must be comfortable with varying opinions. She has also described grief as something that arrives unexpectedly, requiring one to confront it rather than denying its presence.

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Person · Open Library

Born
1861
Died
1933
Works
1

Top works

  • Colonial garden at Stenton described in old letters

via Open Library + Wikidata

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

via TMDB

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
United Kingdom
Active from
1993

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
10
Total plays
13

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Letitia+Wright">Read more on Last.fm</a>

via Last.fm · Letitia Wright

Quotes

  • Makeup is cool. I mean, you can turn up and feel really good and treat yourself, but it shouldn't be something you hang on to to validate your beauty or something you have to do to make you feel beautiful.
  • So many young black women love science, technology, engineering, and maths. But that's not the widely held image of the kind of person who likes those things
  • I think the beauty of a relationship with God is that it's not just about praying and thinking everything's gonna go away. It's a process there to aid and help you.
  • Art is subjective so people can either like it or not but you have to be willing to be comfortable with that.
  • Grief comes like a thief in the night. And you have to deal with it. You can’t kid yourself that you’re OK
  • You think you have time, and that's the thing I've learned, These things make you realize it's important to reach out to people you love.

via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA

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

via Wikipedia infobox

Article · Français

Letitia Wright, née le 31 octobre 1993 à Georgetown au Guyana, est une actrice guyano-britannique. Elle commence sa carrière dans les années 2010, à la télévision britannique et se fait connaître progressivement, notamment grâce au rôle principal du film dramatique (2016). En 2017, sa participation à un épisode de la série plébiscitée Black Mirror lui vaut une proposition pour le Primetime Emmy Award de la meilleure actrice dans un second rôle dans une mini-série ou un téléfilm. En 2018, considérée comme un nouvel espoir du cinéma britannique, elle accède à la notoriété à travers plusieurs projets d'envergure qui la révèle au grand public : Elle rejoint l'univers cinématographique Marvel pour y interpréter le personnage de Shuri, la sœur de T'Challa / Black Panther. Elle intervient dans les blockbusters suivants : Black Panther (2018) et Avengers: Infinity War (2018) et elle est aussi dirigée par Steven Spielberg pour le film de science-fiction Ready Player One (2018). Elle remporte le prix Rising Star Awards lors des BAFTA Awards 2019. Dès lors, elle joue dans des longs métrages tels que Guava Island (2019) et Mort sur le Nil (2022).

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