Talk:Gugu Mbatha-Raw

in lion king?

yes or no? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.230.149.174 (talk) 00:00, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

Possible copy vio

I have tagged the main body of this article as a possible copyvio because it appears to be copy/pasted from the subject's IMDb biography. 70.242.6.127 (talk) 15:12, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

Checked Wayback machine: IMDB was there first. --Old Moonraker (talk) 20:52, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

Thanks Tracer9999 for the fix. --Old Moonraker (talk) 07:46, 13 October 2010 (UTC)

Pronunciation of Name

I came to this page to find out how to say her name...
Turns out it's "goo goo em-bah-tah raw" (reference youtube interview with her)

I'm not sure

• where to stick this
• Nor what WP's phonetic conventions are... (Are there any?? There must be...)

Parking this info here for when somebody who knows comes by... (or I figure it out)
thundt (talk) 16:30, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

I think it's closer to "m-bah-tah raw" (more "m", less "e"). The way to do this is by way of IPA notation in the opening sentence but I don't understand it, so leave it to the experts. – ukexpat (talk) 16:33, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

I fixed /ˈɡuːɡuː ʌmˈbɒtə rɔː/ to /ˈɡuːɡuː əmˈbɑːtə rɔː/. The source article cited for the transcription uses the pronunciation spelling "Goo-goo Um-BAT-uh-Raw", not IPA, and the LOT vowel /ɒ/ for the vowel in "BAT" is certainly wrong. It should be either the TRAP vowel /æ/ or the PALM vowel /ɑː/. I think the confusion is that whoever wrote the earlier transcription must be North American and use the same vowel for LOT and PALM, but English speakers that distinguish them won't generally use the LOT vowel for sounds that come from /a/ in other languages. Also, the first syllable of Mbatha is a syllabic consonant [m̩], which the IPA convention for Wikipedia transcribes as /əm/. Again, for most North American speakers there is no distinction between reduced /ʌ/ and /ə/, but for other speakers there is, and /ʌm/ would never be pronounced as a syllabic consonant [m̩] whereas /əm/ often is. --Iceager (talk) 11:14, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

As a South African myself, I can tell you that the "Mbatha" part of her last name is pronounced by first language isiZulu speakers as mˈbɑːtɑː. The first syllable would be pronounced with the same sound as the [m] in Mars mˈɑːz, which you wouldn't prounounce for non-IPA purposes as "um-ahs", but "m-ahs". @Ukexpat was close to correct in the "m-bah-tah" proununciation.197.88.79.163 (talk) 15:12, 18 February 2016 (UTC)

The ɑː at the end of Mbatha would more correctly be transcribed as ⟨ə⟩, making it mˈbɑːtəSmallMossie (talk)

Adding a picture of her would be great.

Now that she is a main star of Touch (2012 TV series), a picture or two would be great. Charles Edwin Shipp (talk) 04:55, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

Early Life Section

It's not really necessary to mention that her parents were an inter-racial couple. It's not relevant to anything else in her bio or filmography. It would only be of interest if the relationship had started in her fathers' home country of South Africa during the late '70s/early '80s. The placement of this biographical information seems more like padding to add to the length of the bio, rather than something that contributes to the usefulness of the biographical section. SmallMossie (talk) 14:32, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

I wish it wasn't necessary or relevant, but unfortunately Hollywood hasn't changed and it is still is a topic that comes up with almost every mixed race actor or actress. The reference bustle article says it well "it seems impossible to be a working actor in Hollywood and not feel somewhat boxed in by ethnicity."[1] -- 109.77.204.149 (talk) 22:12, 25 May 2020 (UTC)

Her middle name Sophia in Greek means wisdom, if her first name is explained, let the middle one be explained as well . (Panos from Athens) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.103.157.217 (talk) 06:54, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

MBE

No mention of MBE in Awards section? 86.162.176.157 (talk) 07:53, 16 December 2021 (UTC)