Height
5' 8" (172 cm)
Age
39
Nation
British

Her family moved from Zaria, Nigeria, to Manchester, England, when she was eighteen months old, as her mother got a chance to do a Ph.D. at Manchester UMIST.
During her school days, Wunmi Mosaku sang for eleven years in the Manchester Girls Choir.
She belongs to the Yoruba ethnic group.
It was because of… I’m gonna say racism. All my Nigerian friends had the same thing, but none of my French or Lithuanian friends were told to stop speaking their mother tongue at home. It happened when I was five.”
In 2007, Wunmi Mosaku started performing on stage at the Arcola Theatre in a play called The Great Theatre of the World.
In 2008, she acted in Rough Crossings, a play directed by Rupert Goold, at the Lyric Hammersmith theatre.
Wunmi Mosaku then went on to act in many plays such as The Vertical Hour (2010) and Truth and Reconciliation (2011) at the Royal Court Theatre.
In 2008, she participated in the first UNDEREXPOSED exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery. The exhibition aimed to highlight Black role models and celebrate the talent in the Black British community.
Her photo was shown on Commercial Way in Peckham, London, as part of the exhibition.

In 2009, Wunmi Mosaku acted in the television series Moses Jones, which aired on BBC Two.
Wunmi Mosaku has been featured on the cover of various noted magazines and tabloids. In 2011, she was featured in Nylon Magazine’s Young Hollywood issue.


In 2011, she appeared in the television show Vera as Holly Lawson.
In 2015, Wunmi Mosaku appeared as Quentina, a traffic warden, in the television series Capital, which was based on a novel by John Lanchester. The series aired on the BBC.

Wunmi Mosaku is inspired by her grandmother, actor Albert Finney (who motivated her to go to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art), William Gaskill (her former teacher and colleague at RADA), Paul Newman, and Oprah Winfrey.


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