The family escaped from Rwanda during the Rwandan genocide against the Tutsi in 1994 and settled in Scotland.
Mizero Ncuti Gatwa (born 15 October 1992) is a Rwandan-Scottish actor. He had his breakout role as gay teenager Eric Effiong in the comedy-drama series Sex Education
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(2019–2023), which earned him a BAFTA Scotland Award for Best Actor in Television and three BAFTA Television Award nominations for Best Male Comedy Performance. In 2022, he was cast as the 15th incarnation of The Doctor in Doctor Who.
Early life
Gatwa moved to Glasgow to study at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Acting in 2013. The Conservatoire awarded him an honorary doctorate at the class of 2022 graduation ceremony.
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Career
In May 2018, Gatwa was cast in the comedy-drama series Sex Education as Eric Effiong; the show was released in 2019 and garnered critical acclaim. Gatwa received praise for his portrayal of Eric from critics, particularly for how his character was not relegated to the cliché of "gay or black best friend slash sidekick stock character". He has earned numerous accolades for the role, including a BAFTA Scotland Award for Best Actor in Television in 2020.
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Doctor Who
On 8 May 2022, it was announced that Gatwa had been cast in Doctor Who as a new incarnation of the show's protagonist, the Doctor. Gatwa will be 1st black actor to lead the series, the fourth Scottish actor, and the first actor born outside the United Kingdom to do so.
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He was expected to take over the role in the third and final of the 2022 specials in October 2022. The final Thirteenth Doctor story "The Power of the Doctor" revealed that Gatwa would play the Fifteenth Doctor.
Personal life
Gatwa publicly came out as queer in an August 2023 interview with Elle magazine, having previously avoided discussing his sexuality in spite of popular speculation. In the interview, Gatwa noted that he preferred not to label himself,
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and that he had been inspired by both his work on Sex Education and an encounter with a Rwandan woman at Manchester Pride some years prior, having "never met another queer Rwandan person before".
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