WUNMI
MOSAKU

Wunmi Mosaku brings a particular gravity to characters living between fear, responsibility and hope. Born in Nigeria and raised in Manchester, she trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Her career moves between intimate British drama and genre stories with larger canvases, while her performances keep attention on the person within each story.

In the television film Damilola, Our Loved Boy, Mosaku played Gloria Taylor, mother of Damilola Taylor. The role earned her the 2017 BAFTA Television Award for supporting actress. Grounded in a real family’s loss, the drama asks an actor to convey grief without losing sight of the life and relationships surrounding it.

His House (2020) gives Mosaku the role of Rial, a refugee trying to make a home with her husband in England. The film’s supernatural unease is intertwined with displacement and memories of what the couple has survived. Her performance allows Rial’s connection to that past to remain present even as the characters face a new place and an uncertain future.

Her television work includes Ruby Baptiste in Lovecraft Country and Hunter B-15 in Marvel’s Loki. The two series place her in very different imagined worlds: one uses horror to explore a hostile America, while the other follows a time-policing organization. Both offer room for characters whose loyalties and sense of self are tested.

In Ryan Coogler’s Sinners (2025), Mosaku plays Annie, a healer whose knowledge and relationships connect the film’s supernatural threat with its community. She won the 2026 BAFTA Film Award for supporting actress and received an Academy Award nomination for the performance. Those honors recognize a role that draws strength from both restraint and the weight Annie carries.