Cush Jumbo

About Cush Jumbo

Actress and screenwriter most known for her role as Lucca Quinn in The Good Wife and its spin-off, The Good Fight, on the latter. She also appeared in ITV's Vera and was nominated for an Ian Charleson Award for her performance as Rosalind in As You Like It on stage (2011).

Cush Jumbo is an English actress and writer. She is best known for her starring role as attorney Lucca Quinn in the CBS legal drama series The Good Wife and the CBS All Access spin-off series The Good Fight. Jumbo also starred as DC Bethany Whelan in the ITV crime drama series Vera and as Lois Habiba in the third series of Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood in 2009. She has appeared in numerous theatre productions. She won the Ian Charleson Award for her role as Rosalind in As You Like It and received a Laurence Olivier Award nomination for her role as Mark Antony in an all-female cast of Julius Caesar. She also wrote and starred in the one-woman show Josephine and I, about Josephine Baker.

Children	1
Years active	2006–present
Occupation	Actress, writer
Born	September 23, 1985, Denmark Hill, London, England

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Cush Jumbo before fame

She began taking dance lessons when she was three years old. From the age of 11 to 15, she studied dance at the Francis Cooper School of Dance. She left Cator Park School for Girls at the age of 14 to study acting more actively at the BRIT School in Selhurst.

Achievement of Cush Jumbo

Her performance as Mark Antony in Julius Caesar, which included an all-female ensemble, won her a Laurence Olivier Award nomination. Josephine and I was a one-woman performance she wrote and starred in. In 2019, she was named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for her contributions to drama.

Salary 2020

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Net Worth 2020

Undisclosed

Cush Jumbo family life

Angela (British) and Marx Jumbo (Nigerian) gave birth to her at King's College Hospital in Denmark Hill. She was the youngest of seven siblings. Her son Maximilian was born in 2017 to her and her husband Sean Griffin.

Associations of Cush Jumbo

In both The Good Wife and The Good Fight, she co-starred with Christine Baranski.

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