I'd like to see someone try to make Cush Jumbo up. It's my real name.

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• Cush Jumbo:

  If your church is the theatre, New York means a lot - it's a pilgrimage you want to make.

• Cush Jumbo:

  What's important with writing is that it comes from a place you absolutely love. I'm writing for fi

• Cush Jumbo:

  You see actors who make family work, but it's difficult for any woman.

• Cush Jumbo:

  With a name like Cush Jumbo, you never get forgotten. The 'Jumbo' is from my father, who is Nigeria

• Cush Jumbo:

  I started working on stage as a dancer when I was four; by 14 or 15, I knew I wanted to study the c

• Cush Jumbo:

  When you're working with a big star, you always wonder what it's going to be like. Hugh Jackman put

• Cush Jumbo:

  Playing Mark Antony in Julius Caesar was the most thrilling thing I've done. You get these speeches

• Cush Jumbo:

  'The Good Wife' has actually been something, ironically, that I've watched since episode one, seaso

• Cush Jumbo:

  If you don't have a sense of adventure in this job, then you're not going to do very well. You have

• Cush Jumbo:

  I love London - its where I'm born and bred - but New York just has such an energy when you're walk