Nathalie Emmanuel

 Nathalie Joanne Emmanuel(born 2 March 1989) is an English actress. Emmanuel started her acting career in the theatre in the late 1990s. She was given parts in West End musicals like The Lion King. She was born in Southend-on-Sea in Essex, England, on March 2nd, 1989. Her mother is Dominican. Her dad is half Saint Lucian, half English. She has a younger sister. Emmanuel recalled her mother's first notice of her passion for acting and the desire to become an actor when she was in school at St Hilda's School. This school closed in 2014 , and became the Westcliff High School. She said that she first noticed her interest in acting when she was just three years old. Her mother encouraged her to take dancing, singing, as well as acting classes. In the West End production of The Lion King Young Nala was the role as Young Nala. In the following year she was chosen to play Game of Thrones as Missandei Daenerys Targaryen's interpreter. The actress told Jimmy Kimmel that she heard about her being chosen for the role while she was working as a shop attendant at an apparel store. In the year 2015, Emmanuel was promoted to an ongoing cast member on the show. Missandei was the only woman of color in the show's cast. Her death scene while she was locked up was not a hit for viewers. Emmanuel later said to The Guardian that the reaction to Missandei’s death was so strong due to her being the one. I believe that many people who felt excluded or marginalized were influenced by Missandei or felt represented in her. The people were devastated when she died, and it was so tragically. That's how they're going to do the only woman of colour