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Ncuti Gatwa is a Rwandan-Scottish actor.
Gatwa rose to fame after starring as Eric Effiong in the Netflix comedy-drama series Sex Education (2019–present), 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 fourteenth incarnation of the Doctor on the BBC series Doctor Who, making him the first black actor to star in the role in a leading capacity.
Gatwa was born in Nyarugenge, Kigali, Rwanda, on 15 October 1992 and his family escaped during the Rwandan genocide in 1994 to settle in Scotland, living in Edinburgh and Dunfermline.
Gatwa attended Boroughmuir High School and Dunfermline High School before moving to Glasgow to study at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, graduating with a BA in Acting in 2013.
After graduating, Gatwa was granted a position in the Dundee Repertory Theatre acting graduation scheme based in Dundee, Scotland where he performed in several productions including David Greig’s Victoria.
