In 2016, American author Colson Whitehead published his sixth novel called ‘Underground Railroad’ and it went on to win the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction, the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence and the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Colson Whiteheads’ novel is about 2 slave, Cora and Caesar, in the Georgia plantations during the 18 something, who runs away from the plantations to gain freedom in Free States by following the Underground Railroad which was a network of secret routes and safe houses established by slave abolishinist in the United States. Thuso Mbedu landed the role of Cora.

 

 

 

Thuso Mbedu grew up in Pelham in KZN, his mother died when she was 4 years old. She was raised up by her grandmother. In 2013, she graduated at University of Witwatersrand with with an Honours and majoring in Physical Theatre and Performing Arts Management. The following year after graduation, she landed a role on Isibaya, Scandal. Thuso moved to the States where she is currently based in Hollywood, in Los Angeles, the home of American movie stars

This week, Thuso Mbedu won the TV Breakout Star Award for the role of Cora in The Underground Railroadat the inaugural Hollywood Critic’s Association awards.

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