Letitia Wright
Letitia Michelle Wright (born 31 October 1993) is a Guyanese-British actress. She began her career with guest roles in 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. She 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.
Known For
Credits
- 2026 · Avengers: Doomsday as Shuri
- 2023 · Surrounded as Mo Washington
- 2023 · Voices Rising: The Music of Wakanda Forever as Shuri (archive footage) / Self - Actress
- 2023 · Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever as Self
- 2022 · Aisha as Aisha Osagie
- 2022 · Black Panther: Wakanda Forever as Shuri
- 2022 · 20/20 Presents Black Panther: In Search of Wakanda as Self
- 2022 · The Silent Twins as June
- 2022 · Death on the Nile as Rosalie Otterbourne
- 2021 · Sing 2 as Nooshy (voice)
- 2021 · Lines as
- 2021 · Marvel Studios Legends as Shuri (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2020 · Small Axe as Altheia Jones
- 2020 · Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King as Self (archive footage)
- 2019 · Tamron Hall as Self - Guest
- 2019 · I Am... as Danielle
- 2019 · Avengers: Endgame as Shuri
- 2019 · Guava Island as Yara Love
- 2018 · Avengers: Infinity War as Shuri
- 2018 · Ready Player One as Reb (Safe House)
- 2018 · Black Panther as Shuri
- 2018 · The Commuter as Jules Skateboarder
- 2017 · Cake as
- 2015 · Urban Hymn as Jamie Harrison
- 2015 · Humans as Renie
- 2015 · Cucumber as Vivienne Scott
- 2015 · Banana as Vivienne Scott
- 2014 · Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
- 2014 · Chasing Shadows as Taylor Davis
- 2014 · Glasgow Girls as Amal
- 2014 · The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self - Guest
- 2013 · Big Girl as Hannah
- 2012 · My Brother the Devil as Aisha
- 2011 · Black Mirror as Nish
- 2011 · Victim as Nyla
- 2011 · Random as Girl #3
- 2005 · Doctor Who as Anahson
- 2003 · Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self