Ncuti Gatwa

Age: 27 From: Born in Rwanda and brought up in Scotland Background: Gatwa’s family left Rwanda in 1994 because of the mass killings there and went to live in Scotland when he was two years old. Famous because: In 2019, Gatwa made headlines for his role as a homosexual black teenager in the popular Netflix original series Sex Education.

Quote: The actor told the film website Indiewire: “It’s really nice to have a gay character, a black character, be at the forefront of this story on a show like this that has the reach it does on Netflix.”