Winston Duke

Winston Duke (born 15 November 1986) is a Tobagonian-Rwandan actor. He made his feature film debut in the role of M'Baku in Black Panther (2018) and is best known for portraying the character in four films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Duke was born in the village of Argyle, Tobago. With his sister and mother, Duke moved to Brooklyn at age nine. After graduating from the Yale School of Drama with a Master of Fine Arts in acting in 2013, Duke had small roles in theatre productions and television shows such as Person of Interest and Modern Family. He portrayed M'Baku in four Marvel Studios films and also starred in Jordan Peele's horror film Us (2019). Duke's latest role was M'Baku in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022). Early life and education Winston Duke was born in the village of Argyle, Tobago in the country of Trinidad and Tobago on 15 November 1986. He was raised by single mother Cora Pantin, a Tobagonian government worker and restaurant owner. As a child, Duke showed the restaurant's customers to their tables and learned how to "charm" strangers at an early age. When he was nine, his mother sold the restaurant and their possessions. Duke, Pantin and his older sister, Cindy, then moved to a studio apartment in Brooklyn so that Cindy could attend medical school.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Desta |first=Yohana |date=February 16, 2018 |title=Black Panther'''s Winston Duke Is the Star You Should Be Watching |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/02/winston-duke-black-panther-mbaku-interview |access-date=November 26, 2022 |website=Vanity Fair}}</ref> Duke attended a public primary school in Crown Heights, and often frequented the local library and comic book store after school. He graduated from Brighton High School in Rochester, New York in 2004. He attended the University at Buffalo, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in theatre. He then moved on to Yale School of Drama where he received a Master of Fine Arts in acting and graduated in 2013.