Wunmi Mosaku

Some Lesser Known Facts About Wunmi Mosaku

• 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.

• Once, during a media conversation, Wunmi Mosaku said that her parents were told not to speak Yaruba at home. She added that her family faced racism. She said,
  

  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.”

• When she was 18 years old, she was diagnosed as dyslexic.

• 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.

• In July 2009, she was featured on the cover of Screen International magazine as one of the UK Stars of Tomorrow.

• 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 2010, in the film I Am Slave, she played the role of Malia, a girl kidnapped from Sudan and sold into slavery.

• Wunmi Mosaku then went on to appear in many films such as Citadel (2011), Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016), Sweetness in the Belly (2019), Deadpool & Wolverine (2024), and Sinners (2025).

  

• 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.

• She then went on to appear in many television series such as Damilola, Our Loved Boy (2016), Temple (2019), Loki (2021), We Own This City (2022), and Boarders (2024).

  

• 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.

• She works as an ActionAid ambassador.

• Wunmi Mosaku likes travelling to distant places in her free time.

  

• She is often spotted enjoying alcoholic beverages on various occasions.