Career

Television

Year Title Role Notes
2004 Holby City Collette Hill
2006 Vital Signs Eve
Walk Away and I Stumble   nurse
Bad Girls Fidelity
2007 Spooks Jenny
Doctor Who Tish Jones 4 episodes
Doctor Who Confidential Herself Interviewee
Marple Tina Argyle In Ordeal by Innocence
2008 Lost in Austen Piranha
Bonekickers Viv Davis
Trial & Retribution Jenny Miller
2009 Fallout Shanice Roberts Part of Channel 4’s Disarming Britain series
2010 Undercovers Samantha Bloom
2012 Touch Clea Hopkins

Film

Year Title Role Notes
2011 Larry Crowne Talia
2012 Odd Thomas Viola
2013 Belle Dido Elizabeth Belle African-American Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress
BIFA Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a British Independent Film
Nominated—BIFA Award for Most Promising Newcomer
Nominated—Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Most Promising Performer
Nominated—Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best Breakthrough Performance
Nominated—NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture
Pending — Black Reel Award for Best Actress
Pending — London Film Critics’ Circle Award for British Actress of the Year
Pending — Satellite Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture
Pending — Florida Film Critics Circle Pauline Kael Breakout Award
2014 Beyond the Lights   Noni Jean Nominated—Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Most Promising Performer
Nominated—Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best Breakthrough Performance
Nominated—Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Actress
Pending — Black Reel Award for Best Actress
Pending — Florida Film Critics Circle Pauline Kael Breakout Award
2015 Jupiter Ascending Famulus
The Whole Truth
2016 Concussion Prema Mutiso Filming

Theatre

Year Title Theatre Role Notes
2005 Antony and Cleopatra   Royal Exchange in Manchester Cleopatra
Romeo and Juliet Juliet Capulet
2008 Gethsemane National Theatre Monique
2009–2010 Hamlet Donmar West End and Broadway Ophelia Opposite Jude Law