About
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.
Filmography
Bad Fairies2027 · (voice)
The Roses2025 · Jeffrey
Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War2025 · The Doctor
National Theatre Live: The Importance of Being Earnest2025 · Algernon Moncrieff
Doctor Who at the Proms2024 · The Doctor (15)
Doctor Who: The Legend of Ruby Sunday & Empire of Death2024 · The Doctor
imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me2023 · Self
Doctor Who: 60th Anniversary Specials2023 · The Doctor (archive footage)
Barbie2023 · Ken
The Coronation Concert2023 · Romeo
The Last Letter from Your Lover2021 · Nick
Letters Live from the Archive: International Women’s Day2021 · Self
Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans2019 · Timidius
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Live at Shakespeare's Globe2016 · Demetrius