Noma Dumezweni

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Summary

Noma Dumezweni is an actor and director known for stage roles including Hermione Granger in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, and for television work in The Undoing and Black Earth Rising. She has repeatedly spoken about racial representation in the arts, criticizing token casting and calling for more Black, brown, Asian, and Indigenous people in stories. She described George Floyd’s murder and the Black Lives Matter protests as personally seismic, and has publicly defended transgender rights. Her public record centers on race, representation, and queer rights rather than party politics.