Trivia

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

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

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 African actor to play the lead role in the show's history, and the fourth Scottish actor to do so (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.