Background
Mosaku was born in Zaria, Nigeria, and subsequently emigrated to Manchester, England, where she attended Trinity Church of England High School and Xaverian Sixth Form College.
Mosaku was born in Zaria, Nigeria, and subsequently emigrated to Manchester, England, where she attended Trinity Church of England High School and Xaverian Sixth Form College.
Mosaku graduated from RADA in 2007 and made her stage debut at the Arcola Theatre in a production of Pedro Calderón de la Barca"s The Great Theatre of the World.
She also sang for eleven years in the Manchester Girls Choir. Since then she has also appeared in Rough Crossings, directed by Rupert Goold and based on the book by Simon Schama, at the Lyric Hammersmith. The Vertical Hour by David Hare and Truth and Reconciliation, both at the Royal Court Theatre and Mules at the Young Victoria
In 2009 she appeared in Katrina a verbatim play which told six people"s stories of their struggles of survival when Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans August 2005.
Mosaku was originally cast as Sophie in the United Kingdom premiere of Ruined by Lynn Nottage at the Almeida Theatre but had to pull out due to an injury. In 2008, she appeared in the first of the UNDEREXPOSED exhibitions at the National Portrait Gallery designed to raise the profile of black role models and celebrates the talent that exists among the Black British community.
Her photo also appeared on Commercial Way, Peckham, London, as part of the exhibition. She featured on the front cover of Screen International magazine June–July 2009 as one of the United Kingdom Stars of Tomorrow, and in 2011 was featured in Nylon Magazine"s 2011 Young Hollywood issue.
In 2010 Wunmi Mosaku was named one of The Seven Fresh Faces of Toronto International Festival, for I Am Slave, in which she starred.
She plays Malia, a girl who has been kidnapped from her village in Sudan, and sold into slavery. In 2015, Mosaku played the part of Quentina, a traffic warden, in the three-part British Broadcasting Corporation series Capital based on John Lanchester"s novel of the same name. Drama on 3: The Vertical Hour (2008), on British Broadcasting Corporation 3, as Terri Scholes Drama on 4 Normal and National (2009) on British Broadcasting Corporation 4 as Shanice Drama on 4 Amazing Grace (2010) on British Broadcasting Corporation 4 as Grace.