About Cush Jumbo
Cush Jumbo (born 23 September 1985) is a British actress and writer. She is best known for her role as attorney Lucca Quinn in the CBS drama series The Good Wife (2015–2016) and its Paramount Plus spin-off series The Good Fight (2017–2021), Megan Pierce / Cassie Morris in Harlan Coben's Netflix miniseries Stay Close (2021), and most recently June Lenker in the Apple TV+ series Criminal Record (2024–). Jumbo starred as DC Bethany Whelan in the ITV crime drama series Vera (2012, 2015–16) and as Lois Habiba in the third series of Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood in 2009. In theatre, Jumbo received a Laurence Olivier Award nomination for playing Mark Antony in Julius Caesar in 2013, and also wrote and performed in the play Josephine and I. She was awarded an Evening Standard Theatre Award for her one-woman show, and reprised her performance Off-Broadway in 2015. Jumbo made her Broadway debut in Jez Butterworth's The River in 2014, and received her second Olivier nomination upon her 2021 return to the London stage as Hamlet. In 2012 she won the Ian Charleson Award for her performance as Rosalind in William Shakespeare's As You Like It at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester. In October 2013, she won a UK Theatre Award for this performance. She is best known for her role as attorney Lucca Quinn in the CBS drama series The Good Wife (2015–2016) and the Paramount Plus spin-off series The Good Fight (2017–2021) and most recently June Lenker in the Apple TV+ series Criminal Record (2024).
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