Ncuti Gatwa: The Declaration That 29 Year

Ncuti Gatwa Abnormally, the declaration that 29-year-old Scottish entertainer Nakuti Gatwa is to be the new

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have put non- Doctor Who fans down more - or even more so - than ardent followers. Sunday was named as the 14th

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the beloved S*x Education star (co-star Gillian Anderson described her as a "natural on camera"), drawing

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both sides of the Atlantic. "I don't even care about Doctor Who, but I would look 100 percent anything with

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wrote Casimira Contio, founder of London PR Agency. Meanwhile, American author Meacham Whitson Meriweather

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"I'm Googling 'who is Doctor' after hearing that Nakuti Gatwa will play him." But until recently, he was an

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Born in Nyarugenge, Rwanda and raised in Scotland, where his family moved when his family was two years

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the 1994 genocide, he has said that he was "an easy target" at a secondary school in Edinburgh, where some

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black families But he "always relied on my charisma." The family lived in the university residence while

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