Trivia

When he was a toddler, his family fled the Rwandan genocide and moved to Scotland.

Before he was cast in Sex Education (2019), he was homeless for five months.

His first name is pronounced "N-shoo-tee".

On 8th May 2022, he was announced to play the Doctor in Doctor Who (2005). This makes him the first black or Asian to play the lead role in the show's history, the first to be born outside the UK, and the fourth actor raised in Scotland (after Sylvester McCoy, David Tennant and Peter Capaldi).

First person born outside the United Kingdom to play the Doctor.

First person to play the Doctor to be born after the classic series was canceled.

He was featured in an edition of Teen Vogue in January 2019.

One of his earliest acting gigs was in the 2014 TV mini-series Bob Servant.

His departure from Doctor Who in 2025 was not formally announced by the BBC and was shrouded in mystery and press speculation. He had the second shortest tenure as the Doctor in the show's 62-year history, behind only Christopher Eccleston.