- Born
- Height5′ 7″ (1.70 m)
- 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.
- IMDb mini biography by: ICM Talent
- SpouseSean Griffin(December 2014 - 2023) (divorced, 1 child)
- ChildrenMaximilian
- 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.
- She has one son name Maximilian Griffin (b. April 2018) with her ex-husband Sean Griffin.
- She was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2019 Queen's Birthday Honours List for her services to drama. She is an actress in London, England.
- She won the Evening Standard Drama Award for her performance as Josephine Baker in her one-woman show "Josephine and I" in London's West End (2013).
- She won the Critics' Circle Theatre Award for her performance as the title role in Shakespeare's tragedy "Hamlet" at the Young Vic Theatre in London (2022).
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