Cush Jumbo
Actor
Cush Jumbo plays Lady Macbeth.
For the Donmar: Julius Caesar - Olivier award nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role (also St Ann’s Warehouse, New York).
Other theatre includes: Hamlet - Critics Circle Award for Best Shakespearean Performance and Olivier Award nomination for Best Actress (Young Vic); Common, She Stoops to Conquer (National Theatre), Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare in the Park, New York), The River (Broadway), Josephine and I (Bush Theatre/Public Theater, New York, Evening Standard Theatre Award winner and Olivier Award nomination), Fred’s Diner (Chichester Festival Theatre), Pygmalion (Ian Charleson Award nomination), A Doll’s House (Manchester Theatre Award), As You Like It (Ian Charleson Award winner, Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester), An Argument About Sex (Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh), Brixton Stories (Lyric Hammersmith) and Love’s Labour’s Lost (Shakespeare’s Globe).
As writer: Josephine and I (Bush Theatre/Public Theater, New York); The Accordion Shop (National Theatre Connections) and Gilly Gilly (Audible Theatre).
Television includes: Criminal Record; Balestra; Stay Close; The Beast Must Die; Deadwater Fell; The Good Fight; Trying; The Good Wife; Vera; Getting On; Lip Service; Torchwood and Harley Street.
Films include: The Postcard Killings; City of Tiny Lights; Remainder and The Inbetweeners.