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Letitia Wright

Also known as Letitia Michelle Wright

Guyanese actress (born 1993)

Person · Open Library

Born: 1861
Died: 1933
Works: 1

Top works

Colonial garden at Stenton described in old letters

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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

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Female
Origin: United Kingdom
Active from: 1993

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 10
Total plays: 13

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Geant4—a simulation toolkit
· 2003 · cited 20,936x
Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,443x
Genome engineering using the CRISPR-Cas9 system
· 2013 · cited 10,768x
Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure
· 2003 · cited 10,041x
First‐Year <i>Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe</i> ( <i>WMAP</i> ) Observations: Determination of Cosmological Parameters
· 2003 · cited 9,194x

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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.”

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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

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Wikidata facts

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date of birth: 1993-01-01
Commons category: Letitia Wright
start of work period: 2011-00-00
social media followers: 314092
name in native language: Letitia Michelle Wright

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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 for her role in the 2015 film Urban Hymn, for which the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) named Wright among the 2015 group of BAFTA Breakthrough Brits.

In 2018, she attained global recognition for her portrayal of Shuri in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Black Panther, for which she won an NAACP Image Award and a SAG Award. Wright reprised the role in Avengers: Infinity War (2018), Avengers: Endgame (2019), and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022). In 2019, she received the BAFTA Rising Star Award. She also appeared in Steve McQueen's 2020 anthology series Small Axe, which earned her a Satellite Award nomination.