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

Barbie

Ken

The Roses

Jeffrey

The Last Letter from Your Lover

Nick

Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans

Timidius

Bad Fairies

Butterwort (voice)

Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War

The Doctor

National Theatre Live: The Importance of Being Earnest

Algernon Moncrieff

Doctor Who at the Proms

The Doctor (15)