Nathalie Emmanuel

 Nathalie Joanne Emmanuel was born 2 March 1989. Emmanuel started her career in acting with the theatre in the latter part of 1990 when she began to be cast in different West End productions such as the musical The Lion King. In 2006, she began her screen career in the role of Sasha Valentine in soap opera Hollyoaks, after which she appeared in various British TV shows until her film debut in Twenty8k.Emmanuel received international recognition for her portrayal of Missandei in the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones (2013-2019), and continued her career as a supporting actress in Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015) and its sequel Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018) in addition to the Fast & Furious films Furious 7 (2015), The Fate of the Furious (2017) and F9 (2021), and she was in Army of Thieves (2021).Emmanuel was born on March 2nd, 1989 in Southend-on-Sea in Essex, England. Her mother is Dominican. Her father is half-Saint Lucian as well as half English. She has an older sister. Emmanuel recalled her mother's first note of her love for acting and her desire to become an actress while she was in school at St Hilda's School. This school closed in 2014 , and was replaced by Westcliff High School. In an interview with the New York Daily News, she commented "When I was three, I would always cause drama that my mother thought I should channel that energy in a more professional manner, so she started me in singing, acting, and dancing classes".At the age of 10 she appeared as Young Nala in the West End production of the musical The Lion KingThe following year, she was selected as Missandei, Daenerys Targaryen's interpreter in the HBO fantasy drama Game of Thrones. The actress told Jimmy Kimmel that she heard about her winning the role while she was working as a shop assistant in a clothes store. Emmanuel was promoted to an actor in 2015 following her win the part. Missandei was the only female who was of color to be part of the cast. Her death scene , in which she was locked up was not a hit with viewers. Emmanuel later said to The Guardian that the reaction to the death of Missandei was so powerful because she was the one. Many people felt disenfranchised or marginalized had felt connected to her or were influenced by them, specifically women of colour. When she passed away - and the way she did - it was extremely painful for the people who mourned her because they thought, "Oh, no! That's what they're going treat the sole woman of colour


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