You probably know Cush Jumbo from her role as Lucca Quinn in The Good Wife and The Good Fight, which she has recently said farewell to. In recent years, she's also starred opposite David Tennant in the miniseries Deadwater Fell and with Jeffrey Dean Morgan in crime movie The Postcard Killings. Now comes a lead role in The Beast Must Die, a super-intriguing revenge thriller premiering Monday, July 5 on AMC+, then launching Monday, July 12 on AMC – check out the trailer here. To whet your appetite, here are 10 things you might not know about this talented British actress.

1. She's said that thanks to her name, she never gets forgotten.

"The 'Jumbo' is from my father, who is Nigerian, and 'Cush' was a king in ancient Egypt," she told Broadway.com. "It's a name that took a few years to grow into, but now I feel it was meant to be. It's absolutely who I am, and I love it."

You can also hear Jumbo talk about her name during this interview on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

2. As a teenager, she attended the BRIT School in south London.

As Jumbo explains in the video below, it's the U.K.'s only free performing arts academy, which means it welcomes talent from a wide variety of backgrounds. Since being established in 1991, it has nurtured future stars including Adele, Tom Holland, Amy Winehouse, FKA Twigs, Ashley Madekwe, and Kate Nash, so it's clearly doing something right.

3. Her dad was a house-husband while she was growing up, which gave her a healthy view of gender roles.

"My earliest experiences of masculinity are that men do everything women do, and women do everything men do — I just thought that was normal," Jumbo told The Times. "My dad did everything and was very open, expressive and emotive, so I just thought everyone's dad was like that. Then I dated boys who didn't know how to boil an egg and was very confused."

4. Her first brush with fame came after appearing in Torchwood.

Jumbo has said that after appearing as Lois Habiba in the 2009 series Torchwood: Children of Earth, she was recognized on the street for the first time. "The first time you have someone yell at you in the street – which was something I'd always dreamed of as a child – when it actually happened, I was shocked at how unsettled it made me feel, and exposed," she told The Guardian.

5. She wrote and starred in her own one-woman play about jazz singer Josephine Baker.

Jumbo's Josephine and I premiered at London's Bush Theatre in 2013, earning her an Emerging Talent prize at the London Evening Standard Theatre Awards, then transferred to The Public Theater in New York in 2015. It proved to be a pivotal moment in her career for many reasons. Christine Baranski was so impressed with Jumbo's performance in the play that she recommended her to The Good Wife's creators, and the Brit was duly cast in the show.

6. She learned an important lesson from her Vera co-star Brenda Blethyn.

"When I worked on Vera, the first proper regular thing I had, she'd played Nora in A Doll's House, and I was going to play the same role," Jumbo told The Times. "We talked a lot, and she showed me how to switch between stage and screen — even the energy it takes is different. She helped make me an actor."

7. She believes in fighting for pay parity in every role.

"Now is the time when you say, 'What's that? My male colleague is doing a third of the time on screen but is being paid three times more than me? Er, no,'" Jumbo told The Guardian in May.

She added later in the interview: "I'm lucky to have an agent who's been behind me when I wasn't earning any money and before it was popular to be a fan of a leading Black actress. So he isn't going to quit now we're finally getting what we deserve. At the end of the day, if I don't ask those questions, if I don't make sure I'm getting parity, then how are the girls coming up behind me supposed to get it?"

8. She received an OBE for services to drama from Buckingham Palace in 2019.

Speaking shortly after receiving her honor, Jumbo admitted that when her agent contacted her with the good news, she thought it was all a big joke.

9. She's soon to play Hamlet in a production at London's Young Vic theater.

The production was due to premiere last year, but following a delay due to the pandemic, it's now scheduled for September. During an interview on David Tennant Does a Podcast, Jumbo revealed that she experienced some "defensiveness" when it was announced she would be taking on a role traditionally played by white men.

Asked for examples of the comments she received, Jumbo said: "Why do women feel like they have to play men's parts? Isn’t this more about you being of color and a woman than the actual play Hamlet? Are there any jobs left for us?"

Jumbo added: "I'm an intersectional everything. I’m about equality for women if that’s equality for everyone. I'm about equality for Black people if that's equality for everything. This isn't a statement. I'm not doing this because it’s a statement about something… I'm just Cush and I want to play Hamlet and that's it."

10. And finally, she has no regrets about leaving The Good Fight.

"Over time your arcs have nowhere to go – its just the nature of serial television. Some people stay for the check, but that's not me," she told the i in May.

Do you have a favorite Cush Jumbo performance to date?