Noma Dumezweni

Noma Dumezweni
Born	1969 (age 47–48) Swaziland
Occupation	Actress

Noma Dumezweni (born 1969) is an English actress. In 2006, she won an Olivier Award for her role in A Raisin in the Sun. She stars as Hermione Granger in the original West End run of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.

Born in Swaziland, of South African parents, Dumezweni lived in Botswana, Kenya and Uganda before coming to England with her family as a child. She first lived in Ipswich, Suffolk, where she was educated, before moving to London.

Dumezweni's work in theatre includes: President of an Empty Room and The Hour We Knew Nothing Of Each Other at the National Theatre, London;Breakfast with Mugabe,Antony and Cleopatra and Much Ado About Nothing for the RSC; A Raisin in the Sun for the Young Vic at the Lyric Hammersmith, London (for which she won her Laurence Olivier Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role); A Midsummer Night's Dream,The Master and Margarita,Nathan the Wise and The Coffee House at Chichester Festival Theatre, Six Characters in Search of an Author in the Chichester Festival production at the Gielgud Theatre and The Bogus Woman at the Traverse and the Bush. In spring of 2009 she appeared in the RSC's The Winter's Tale. In 2013-2014 she appeared in A Human Being Died That Night at the Fugard Theater in Cape Town, the Market Theatre in Johannesburg, which later transferred to the Hampstead Theatre in London.

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