Cush Jumbo

Jumbo in 2016, photo by DFree/Bigstock.com

Place of Birth: Lambeth, London, England, U.K.

Date of Birth: 23 September, 1985

Ethnicity:
*father – Nigerian
*mother – English

Cush Jumbo is a British actress and writer. She is known for her roles on the shows Harley Street, Torchwood, Lip Service, Getting On, Vera, The Good Wife, The Good Fight, Deadwater Fell, Trying, The Beast Must Die, Stay Close, and Criminal Record, and in the films Remainder, City of Tiny Lights, and The Postcard Killings.

Her father, Marx, is Nigerian. Her mother, Angela, is English. She was raised in Lewisham and Southwark. Cush has a son with her former husband Sean Griffin.

Cush’s maternal grandfather’s surname was Hall.