Nathalie Emmanuel Biography

Fast Facts

• Started acting as a child, and her breakthrough role came as Young Nala in the original London production of The Lion King in 1999
• Got noticed on British TV playing Sasha Valentine on the soap opera Hollyoaks (2006-10)
• Made film debut in 2012 thriller Twenty8k, which also featured her future Game of Thrones costar Stephen Dillane
• First appearance as Missandei on HBO's Game of Thrones came in the third-season premiere, "Valar Dohaeris," in 2013
• Credits Game of Thrones role for opening doors to more work in feature films, including Furious 7 (2015) and Fast 8 (2017), the seventh and eighth installments, respectively, of The Fast and the Furious franchise, and Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015) and Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018), the second and third titles, respectively, in The Maze Runner movie series