Cush Jumbo

Cush Jumbo OBE (born 23 September 1985) 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 (2015–2016) and the CBS All Access spinoff series The Good Fight (2017–present).\n', ' Jumbo also starred as DC Bethany Whelan in the ITV crime drama series Vera (2012, 2015–2016). She has appeared in numerous theatre productions. She won the Ian Charleson Award for her role as Rosalind in As You Like It (2011) and received a Laurence Olivier Award nomination for her role as Mark Antony in an all-female cast of Julius Caesar (2012). She also wrote and starred in the one-woman show Josephine and I (2013).\n', ' Jumbo was born in King\'s College Hospital in Denmark Hill to parents Angela (née Hall) and Marx Jumbo. Her mother is British and her father is Nigerian. The second of seven children, she grew up in Lewisham and Southwark. Jumbo began dance classes at the age of 3, learning tap, ballet and modern, and went on to learn street dance, contemporary and ballroom and Latin in later years. From the age of 11 to 15, she trained at the Francis Cooper School of Dance whilst attending Cator Park School for Girls, but at 14 she left Cator Park to pursue acting more seriously at the BRIT School in Selhurst. Jumbo graduated with a first from the BA (Hons) Acting course at Central School of Speech and Drama before starting her professional career. She considered undertaking teacher training in London before finally settling on a career as an actress.\n', '