Nathalie Emmanuel

 Nathalie Joanne Emmanuel(born 2 March 1989) is an English actress. Emmanuel began her acting career by performing in theatre in late 1990s. In the following years, she was offered roles in a variety of West End productions including The Lion King. In 2006, she started her career on screen by playing as Sasha Valentine in soap opera Hollyoaks and later made appearances in several British television series until her film debut in Twenty8k.Emmanuel has gained international recognition for her performance as Missandei in the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones (2013-2019) and then continued her acting career in supporting roles in Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015) and its sequel Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018), the Fast & Furious films Furious 7 (2015), The Fate of the Furious (2017) as well as F9 (2021), and was a character in Army of Thieves (2021).Emmanuel was born on 2 March 1989 in Southend-on-Sea the city of Essex, England. Her mother is Dominican, and her father is half-Saint Lucian and half English descent. She has an older brother. Emmanuel remembers her mother's first notification of her interest in acting and desire to become an actress while she was a student at St Hilda's School. This school closed in 2014 , and became the Westcliff High School. She claimed that she first noticed her talent for acting when she was only three years old. Her mother then encouraged her to attend dancing, singing, and acting classes. In the West End production of The Lion King Young Nala played the role as Young Nala. In the following year she was chosen to play Game of Thrones as Missandei, Daenerys Targaryen’s interpreter. The actress told Jimmy Kimmel that she heard about her winning the role while working as a shop assistant at a clothing store. In the year 2015, Emmanuel was promoted to an established cast member on the show. Missandei was the only female of color on the show's cast. The scene in which she died while she was in chains was not well-liked among viewers. Emmanuel later said to The Guardian that the reaction to Missandei’s death was so robust due to her being the one. I believe that many people who felt marginalized or excluded had connected with Missandei or felt represented by her. It was difficult to be able to let people see her disappear, particularly when it was done in the manner that she was treated. They're targeting the only woman of colour.