British stage and film actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw in a recent comment has shower praise on one of African Influential Women Oprah Winfrey. She had an interview with ES Magazine and took time to praise Oprah who she championed her success to.
Gugu says she often emails Oprah Winfrey, who she calls a “wonderful fairy godmother”. Mbatha-Raw played the title character in Belle, the 2013 British film telling the story of a mixed-race aristocrat who pursues love and the end of the slave trade in 18th-century London.