WITNEY actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw has been named as one of the most influential women in Holywood by fashion magazine Vanity Fair.
The Concussion star was one of 13 actresses who posed for a photo which will appear on the publication's 2016 Hollywood cover.
Ms Mbatha-Raw stood alongside other stars including Dame Helen Mirren, Diane Keaton, Rachel Weisz and Kate Blanchett.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw alongside Will Smith in Concussion
Posting the photo on Instagram Vanity Fair wrote: "Here's what it looks like when the most influential women in Hollywood all get together in one place."
Ms Mbatha-Raw, who was born at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, is widely expected to appear in Star Wars: Episode VIII which is due to be released at the end of 2017.
In recent interview with Bafta she said: "I have always loved acting and I started quite young being into dance and musical theatre and drama at school.
"When I was 17 I auditioned for RADA and got in amazingly.
"That just set me up.
"It is not always easy but I have never been bored."
The actresses who appeared in the photo were:
Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Cate Blanchett, Jennifer Lawrence, Jane Fonda, Viola Davis, Dame Helen Mirren, Diane Keaton, Brie Larson, Saoirse Ronan, Rachel Weisz, Charlotte Rampling, Alicia Vikander and Lupita Nyong'o.
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