Black female actresses have been typecast since the beginning. It?s a dynamic that?s only recently started to change. But Gugu Mbatha-Raw has quietly been breaking barriers for years. Throughout her acting career, she's managed to escape the expected archetypes. She's played everyone from the lead officer on a space mission to a bisexual beachtown party girl. Mbatha-Raw broke into Hollywood in 2013. Since then, she's starred in nearly a dozen major movies.