Letitia Wright

QUICK FACTS
NAME
Letitia Wright
OCCUPATION
Actress
BIRTH DATE
October 31, 1993 (age 24)
PLACE OF BIRTH
Georgetown, Guyana
ZODIAC SIGN
Scorpio

Biography of Letitia Wright
Actress (1993-)
The actress Letitia Wright had an excellent performance as Shuri in the Marvel movie "Black Panther".
Who is Letitia Wright?
Letitia Wright (born October 31, 1993) was one of the stars of the hit Black Panther, in which she played Shuri, a brilliant wakandana princess. Wright also had an intense career in British television, appearing on shows like Doctor Who, Black Mirror and Humans. Among the films she has been with are Avengers: Infinity War, Urban Hymn and Ready Player One. She is open to her Christian faith and has shared that this faith helped her when she suffered from depression. Wright was born in Guyana and grew up in London.

Photo of Letita Wright
Letitia Wright attends the Calvin Klein Collection during New York Fashion Week on the New York Stock Exchange on February 13, 2018 in New York City.

(Photo: Jamie McCarthy / Getty Images)

Films
Black Panther of 2018 co-starred Wright as Shuri, a technological genius and princess of the fictional African nation of Wakanda; She repeated the role in Avengers: Infinity War (2018). Prior to Black Panther, Wright had a leading role in Urban Hymn (2015), a drama about a girl whose musical ability could provide a way out of a difficult life, set during the 2011 riots in England.


Wright also appeared in the film starring Liam Neeson The Commuter (2018) and Ready Player One (2018). Her Ready Player One part was small; Wright admitted in an interview in 2018: "You may not even see my face, but I have a credit! And [the film director] Steven Spielberg, I saw him, I met him, I gave him my hand and I took it."

'Black Panther'
Doing Black Panther was a pleasure for Wright. He had an instant relationship with star Chadwick Boseman (who played his brother T'Challa, the new leader of Wakanda and the titular Black Panther); she also enjoyed beating her fellow castmates in rap battles between shots. In addition, Wright appreciated the release of stereotypical characters from the film, and hopes that Shuri will inspire young viewers to learn more about science and technology.

TV
Wright was a featured guest star at the end of the fourth season of the Black Mirror anthology series in 2017. She has also been seen on the popular Doctor Who series, and at the Cucumber, Banana, Holby City and Top Boy shows. In Humans, which takes place in a world full of real androids, he played a human who claims to be a robot.


'Black mirror'
Wright's black mirror episode was titled "Black Museum". He presented Wright's unbalanced mental character in search of revenge for the suffering of a family member.

Theatrical career
In 2015, Wright was seen in London's West End on Eclipsed. She described a young woman living in a complex as one of the "wives" of a warlord during the Liberian Civil War. The play was written by his Black Panther co-star, Danai Gurira.

Early acting career
Wright began taking acting classes at the age of 12. Among her first roles was to play Rosa Parks, and with a convincing American accent, in a work by Black History Month. Seeing the movie Akeelah and the Bee (2006), starring Keke Palmer, made an adolescent Wright want to pursue an acting career; She told The Guardian in 2015, "It's not a famous movie, but it just changed something for me, someone who looks like me, doing something positive."

Wright's mother, a teacher, was more concerned about education and was not sure of her daughter's career choice. However, after Wright proved that success was possible when he landed a role in the Holby City television series in 2011, his mother appeared.

School of acting
Wright began sending emails to agents when he was 16, listing his school performances. But it was the Identity School of Acting in London, which has trained artists from diverse backgrounds, which took his career to the next level. In addition to taking classes at the school, she signed with her affiliate agency.

When was Letitia Wright born?
Letitia Wright was born on October 31, 1993 in Georgetown, Guyana.

Christian
When she was 20 years old, Wright was fighting depression. The actor Malachi Kirby, who had attended his theater school, invited her to a Bible study; This led Wright to forge a deep relationship with God. He later took a break from acting, leaving a movie with Nicole Kidman and Elle Fanning, but his faith later encouraged Wright to embrace the profession once again. He said in a 2017 interview: "I just heard this voice like: 'This is the talent that I have given you, do not waste it.'" In the same interview, Wright explained that his focus on his career