About Nathalie Emmanuel
Nathalie Joanne Emmanuel (born 2 March 1989) is an English actress. Emmanuel began her acting career appearing in theatre in the late 1990s, acquiring roles in various West End productions such as the musical The Lion King. In 2006, she began her on-screen career by starring as Sasha Valentine in soap opera Hollyoaks, after which she appeared in various British television series until her debut film appearance in Twenty8k (2012). Emmanuel gained wider recognition for her role as Missandei in the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones (2013–2019), and continued her career with supporting roles in the Maze Runner films (2015–2018), the Fast & Furious films Furious 7 (2015), The Fate of the Furious (2017), F9 (2021), and Fast X (2023). She has since taken on lead roles in Army of Thieves (2021) and Megalopolis (2024). For the former Emmanuel won the Screen Nation award for Best Female Performance in Film. Emmanuel recalled that her mother first took notice of her passion and desire to become an actress during Emmanuel's attendance at the private St Hilda's School, which closed in 2014, and later the Westcliff High School for Girls grammar school.
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