This is not the first time Mosaku’s acting has attracted high acclaim.
In 2016, she won a Bafta TV Award for best supporting actress for her role as Gloria Taylor in the TV film Damilola, Our Loved Boy.
The drama told the story of 10-year-old schoolboy Damilola Taylor, who was stabbed in the leg and left to die in a south London stairwell in November 2000.
Mosaku was 15 years old when she heard the news of his killing.
“I came from Nigeria as a child,” she said during a BBC interview in 2016.
“Until I read the script, I didn’t know how long they’d been in the country for so I thought he was probably just like me, having just started school.
“I thought they were just like the rest of the Nigerian community that I knew in Manchester.
“I grew up on an estate in Manchester and people I’ve known from school have died in gang trouble and I always thought, if I’d been on a different estate at a different time, it could have been me.”