Cush Jumbo

Actress
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Macbeth: David Tennant & Cush Jumbo (2025)

Cush Jumbo is a British actress and writer best known for playing Lucca Quinn in The Good Wife. She was Olivier nominated for the role of Marc Anthony in Phyllida Lloyd's all-female production of Julius Caesar (Donmar Warehouse/St Anns Warehouse NYC) and won an Evening Standard Award for writing and starring in Josephine and I, a one-woman show about the black performer Josephine Baker.

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Awards
- 2 nominations total

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Known for

The Good Fight

8.3

TV Series

Lucca Quinn

Torchwood

7.7

TV Series

Lois Habiba

The Inbetweeners

6.7

Check In Woman

2011

Vera

8.2

TV Series

DC Bethany Whelan

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Actress

Macbeth: David Tennant & Cush Jumbo
7.7
- Lady Macbeth
- 2025
Balestra
5.0
- Joanna Bathory
- 2024
Criminal Record
7.1
TV Series
- DS June Lenker
- 2024
Girl in the Video
5.5
- Mo Meyer
- 2024
Stay Close
6.9
TV Mini Series
- Megan Pierce
- 2021
The Good Fight
8.3
TV Series
- Lucca Quinn
- 2017–2021
The Beast Must Die
6.3
TV Series
- Frances Cairnes
- 2020–2021
Trying
8.0
TV Series
- Jane
- 2020
The Postcard Killings
5.8
- Dessie Lombard
- 2020
Deadwater Fell
6.5
TV Mini Series
- Jess Milner
- 2020
City of Tiny Lights
5.6
- Melody Chase
- Laura
- 2016
The Good Wife
8.3
TV Series
- Lucca Quinn
- 2015–2016
Vera
8.2
TV Series
- DC Bethany Whelan
- 2012–2016
Remainder
5.6
- Catherine
- 2015
Getting On
8.1
TV Series
- Damaris Clarke
- 2010–2012

Producer

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Official site
- Instagram
Height
- 5′ 7″ (1.70 m)
Born
- September 23, 1985
- London, England, UK
Spouse
- Sean GriffinDecember 2014 - 2023 (divorced, 1 child)
Children
- Maximilian
Other works
Stage play: wrote and starred in the one woman show Josephine and I as Josephine Baker, Bush Theatre, London, UK.
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Trivia
The origin of her unusual name stemmed from her parents, a British mother and a Nigerian father, both of whom loved biblical/historical names. Cush was derived from the ancient King Kush of Egypt coupled with her father's name, Jumbo.