Cush Jumbo

Cush Jumbo, a British actress and writer, was born in Camberwell, London, and trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama. She won an Ian Charleson Award for her Rosalind in As You Like It at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester and earned an Olivier nomination for playing Mark Antony in an all-female Julius Caesar at the Donmar Warehouse. Her own one-woman play Josephine and I, about Josephine Baker, brought her an Emerging Talent Award at the London Evening Standard Theatre Awards, and she made her Broadway debut in Jez Butterworth's The River in 2014. Her television work includes Lois Habiba in Torchwood, DC Bethany Whelan in Vera, and Lucca Quinn in The Good Wife and The Good Fight. She later played Hamlet at the Young Vic Theatre, which led to a second Olivier nomination, and appeared in Stay Close and Criminal Record. She was appointed an OBE in 2019 for services to drama.