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Thuso Mbedu hits the blue carpet in a chic look at the 2022 Film Independent Spirit Awards at the Santa Monica Pier on Sunday afternoon (March 6) in Santa Monica, Calif.

Over the past decade, South African native Thuso Mbedu has starred in numerous television shows earning two International Emmy Award nominations in the process. When she was cast as Cora Randall in Barry Jenkins’ episodic adaptation of “The Underground Railroad,” she was startled by how little she knew of the conditions African American slaves endured from her education overseas.

Barry Jenkins’ acclaimed TV adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel,, William Jackson Harper plays Royal, a freeborn man who helps a runaway slave named Cora Randall (Thuso Mbedu) as she goes on a harrowing journey through the antebellum South to find freedom by way of an underground network of trains, tracks and tunnels. “I just figured this is the kind of job that goes to other people,” Harper tells ET about coming off four years of, where he earned an Emmy nomination for

Barry Jenkins, the Oscar-winning filmmaker behind and, comes a stunningly beautiful and powerful TV adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel,.

Colson Whitehead’s acclaimed novel is coming to the screen.

Despite a fair number of teasers already released, the new trailer for “The Underground Railroad,” from director Barry Jenkins, is the best look yet at the overall plot of his upcoming Amazon Prime series. The show is based on the acclaimed novel from Colson Whitehead and tells the story of a woman, Cora Randall, who is desperate to find freedom in the antebellum South and attempts to escape a Georgia plantation on a mission to find the rumored Underground Railroad.

Amazon Prime Video announced today that the Amazon Original 10-episode limited series The Underground Railroad will premiere worldwide on May 14.