Ncuti Gatwa
Born: 15th October 1992 (as Mizero Ncuti Gatwa)
Episodes Broadcast: 2023-2024
Ncuti Gatwa was born in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, but his family
fled the country two years later to escape the Tutsi genocide. He was
instead raised in Scotland, where he attended the Royal Conservatoire of
Scotland in Glasgow. Gatwa graduated in 2013 with a Bachelor of Arts in
Acting, and he joined the Dundee Repertory Theatre soon thereafter. He
made his television debut in 2014 with a small role in Bob
Servant, before appearing in Stonemouth the following year.
Gatwa's breakthrough role arrived in 2019, when he co-starred in the
comedy-drama Sex Education. The same year, he could be seen in
Horrible Histories: The Movie -- Rotten Romans; a second
cinematic outing arrived in 2021, in the form of the ensemble romance
The Last Letter From Your Lover.
In 2022, it was announced that Gatwa had been cast as the successor to
the Thirteenth Doctor, Jodie Whittaker, on Doctor Who. Audiences
would later discover that he would, in fact, be playing the Fifteenth
Doctor -- following a brief period in which the Tenth Doctor, David
Tennant, would be returning to the series as the Time Lord's fourteenth
incarnation. Regardless of his ordinal designation, this made Gatwa the
first Doctor Who lead actor to be born outside the United
Kingdom, and the first to be openly gay. He was also the first series
star to be a person of colour, although Jo Martin had previously played
the so-called Fugitive Doctor in several of Whittaker's stories. Gatwa
made his on-screen Doctor Who debut in 2023's The Giggle before enjoying his
first full adventure in the subsequent Christmas special, The Church On Ruby Road. The
same year, he could be seen in the feature film Barbie, starring
Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling.
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