Known for World On Fire (2019) and Black is King (2020), Yrsa Daley-Ward is a British actor and writer in film, TV and theatre. She is the daughter of a Jamaican mother and Nigerian father and was brought up by her grandparents in Northern England. She is well known for her debut collection 'bone' and her autobiographical novel, The Terrible, which received critical acclaim in the New Yorker, The New York Times, the Guardian, The Times, and several other publications. Daley-Ward originally toured as a singer in England and Europe in her late teens before going on to tour in rep theatres nationwide. She lives in New York.
