Ncuti Gatwa

Acting · Born 1992-10-15 · Nyarugenge, Kigali, Rwanda

Biography

Massaro Ncuti Gatwa (born October 15, 1992) is a Rwandan-Scottish actor. He rose to prominence as Eric Effiong on the Netflix comedy-drama series Sex Education, 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, Gatwa was announced as the fifteenth incarnation of the Doctor on the BBC series Doctor Who, making him the first black actor to headline the series.

Known for

• The Roses (2025)
• National Theatre Live: The Importance of Being Earnest (2025)
• Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War (2025)
• Doctor Who: The Legend of Ruby Sunday & Empire of Death (2024)
• Doctor Who at the Proms (2024)
• The Coronation Concert (2023)
• Barbie (2023)
• imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me (2023)
• Doctor Who: 60th Anniversary Specials (2023)
• Letters Live from the Archive: International Women’s Day (2021)
• The Last Letter from Your Lover (2021)
• Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans (2019)
• A Midsummer Night's Dream - Live at Shakespeare's Globe (2016)
• Frank and Percy
• The Queen of Fashion
• Saturday Night Live UK (2026)
• Doctor Who (2024)
• Doctor Who: Unleashed (2024)
• Masters of the Air (2024)
• Tales of the Tardis (2023)
• Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg (2022)
• The Outsiders? (2021)
• Sex Education (2019)
• Stonemouth (2015)