Wunmi Mosaku

 ( 1986 Births ) 

In 2008, she appeared in the first of the UNDEREXPOSED exhibitions at the National Portrait Gallery, designed to raise the profile of black role models and celebrates the talent that exists among the Black British community. Her photo also appeared on Commercial Way, Peckham, London, as part of the exhibition. In 2009, she starred in the BBC Two series Moses Jones, for which she won Best Actress in a Miniseries at the Rome Fiction Festival.

She featured on the front cover of Screen International magazine June–July 2009, as one of the UK Stars of Tomorrow, and in 2011 was featured in Nylon Magazines 2011 Young Hollywood issue. In 2010, Wunmi Mosaku was named one of The Seven Fresh Faces of Toronto International Film Festival, for I Am Slave, in which she starred. She plays Malia, a girl who has been kidnapped from her village in Sudan and sold into slavery. Her performance garnered several awards: Best Actress at the Birmingham Black Film Festival, Best Onscreen performance at the Cultural Diversity Awards, and Best Female performance at the Screen Nation.

In 2011, Mosaku appeared in Vera in the role of Holly Lawson. In 2015, Mosaku played the part of Quentina, a traffic warden, in the three-part BBC series Capital, based on John Lanchester's novel of the same name. In 2016, she appeared in Playtest, an episode of the anthology series Black Mirror.

Mosaku won the 2017 BAFTA TV Award for Best Supporting Actress for playing Gloria Taylor in the TV film Damilola, Our Loved Boy.

In 2025, Mosaku appeared as the hoodoo healer Annie in Ryan Coogler's vampire film Sinners. The New York Times called her performance "the soulful core" of the movie.

Mosaku is a mother. She has been taking Yoruba language lessons since 2020.

• Drama on 3: The Vertical Hour (2008) on BBC Radio 3, as Terri Scholes
• Drama on 4: Normal and Nat (2009) on BBC Radio 4, as Shanice
• Drama on 4: Amazing Grace (2010) on BBC Radio 4, as Grace

• Wunmi Mosaku at RADA