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Yusra Warsama
English actress (born 2004) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Yusra Warsama (born 9 July 1985) is a British playwright, theatre director, and stage, film and television actress.
Early and personal life
Warsama was born in the United Arab Emirates to a Somalian Islamic family displaced by the civil war in the country. As a young child her family moved from Abu Dhabi to England. She has a younger sister. She studied for a degree in criminology and sociology. She became a mother living in Manchester in her early twenties.[2][3]
Career
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Stage
She became involved with the Contact Theatre in Manchester whilst a student. In 2015, she appeared at the Donmar Warehouse in James Graham's play The Vote, appearing alongside Judi Dench, amongst others. That year, a play she wrote based on female experience of genital mutilation, Rites, toured Great Britain.[2][3]
In 2023, she wrote and directed Of All the Beautiful Things in the World a free-form adaptation of Federico García Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba which moved the setting from 20th century Andalusia, Spain to 21st century Moss Side in Manchester.[4][5]
She was a writer on the triple-bill of short plays Everywhere alongside Magero, and Anyebe Godwin, with her short play Gestation; the three plays united in their exploration of similar socio-political themes such as race and class, as well as gender-based prejudice and discrimination, and toured in 2025.[6]
Film and television
She could be seen in Call the Midwife on BBC One in 2017, playing a Somali woman who underwent a traumatic childbirth after suffering genital mutilation as a child.[7] In 2019, she joined the cast for the second series of the Stephen King supernatural horror adaptation Castle Rock.[8][9]
She appeared in Shane Meadows historical drama The Gallows Pole.[10] She could be seen in Swedish drama series Deliver Me on Netflix.[11]
In 2025, she had a leading role in Nadia Fall's film Brides, which premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.[12]
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