Lucian Gabriel Wiina Msamati (born 5 March 1976) is a Zimbabwean actor, writer, director and producer known for his work in theatre, film, television and radio.

1 Ladies' Detective Agency, David Runihura in the Netflix/BBC thriller Black Earth Rising, Ed Dumani in the Sky/AMC series Gangs of London and Cardinal Adeyemi in Conclave.

Msamati is a patron of Lewisham Youth Theatre, WildChild and The Actor's Children's Trust (ACT) and currently serves on the board of trustees at the Donmar Warehouse.

[4] After secondary education at Prince Edward School in Harare, he studied towards a BA honours degree in French and Portuguese at the University of Zimbabwe from 1995 to 1997.

[3] In the spring of 2015, Msamati became the first black actor ever to play Iago in a Royal Shakespeare Company production of Othello (with Hugh Quarshie in the title role).

In 2020 Msamati appeared as Ed Dumani in Sky Atlantic's Gangs of London[18] and in an episode of the BBC's production of Alan Bennett's Talking Heads.