In addition to Doctor Who, Mbatha-Raw appeared in Spooks. In September 2010, Mbatha-Raw became one of the only Doctor Who regulars to land a starring role in an American network TV series as the top-billed lead of the romantic spy-couple action series, Undercovers, created by J.J. Abrams, which debuted on NBC on 22 September 2010. Most recently, she starred in the movie Belle as Dido.