Ivan Bombokka is the brother of Letitia Wright a well-known actress for her role in popular films like Black Panther. Ivan is an actor, producer, director, and writer. He has managed to keep his life away from the spotlight and much is not known about him. Ivan has a close relationship with his sister and has been supportive of her career
Details of Letitia Wright’s Career and Family Life
Leticia Michelle Wright is a Guyanese British actress. Her acting career began with roles in television series like Black Mirror, Top Boy, Chasing Shadows, Coming Up, and Doctor Who. Her role on Urban Hymn, in 2015, had her named among the 20i5 group of BAFTA Breakthrough Brits by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. She has worked with Marvel Cinematic Universe for roles in Avengers Infinity War released in 2018, Avengers End Game in 2019, and Black Panther.
Her acting career began when she was young and was inspired by the film Akeelah and the Bee in 2006. She went to the Identity School of Acting at age 16 to perfect her acting. She was nominated for a Prime Emmy Award, won an NAACP Image Award for her role as Shuri in black panther, and won a SAG Award. In 2019, she received the BAFTA Rising Star Award and a Satellite Award nomination for her feature on the anthology series Small Axe. Letitia was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Arts and Letters from the University of Guyana in a very special ceremony.
Letitia has worked alongside stars like Rihanna and Donald Glover in the short musical film Guava Island by Amazon Studios. In the novel adaptation of Hold Back the Stars, she played her role alongside John Boyega. She had a voice character Nooshy in the animated film Sing 2. She played Shuri in the film Black Panther Wakanda Forever in 2018, aiming to be the new black panther after the death of T’Challa his brother.
In 2021 while shooting she fractured her shoulder from a motorcycle accident and the production had to pause for her to recover from the concussion. She took the role of playing twin sisters June and Jennifer Gibbons in the film The Silent Twins based on a novel from 1986 by Marjorie Wallace. In this year, 2022, she was also shooting for the film Death on the Nile. Her recent role was in the film Surrounded as Moses Washington and also as a producer.
Letitia Wright’s Personal Life
Letitia struggled with depression in her early twenties and had to take a break from acting turning down roles to work on herself and become a Christian. This was before she posted a controversial video during the COVID-19 questioning the legitimacy of the vaccine and received mixed reactions from the internet. She has been running her own production company 3.16 Productions since 2020 creating content for the company like the anthology series I Am for channel 4. Letitia has kept her love life private and stated that she prefers to live it that way. She has a net worth of $2 million.
