Lupita Amondi Nyong'o is a Kenyan-Mexican actress. She is the recipient of several accolades, including an Academy Award, and nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards and a Tony Award.
Julia Garner is an American actress. She is best known for her starring role as Ruth Langmore in the Netflix crime drama series Ozark (2017–2022), for which she received critical acclaim and won three Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2019, 2020, and 2022, and a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2023.
Katlego Danke, is a South African actress, radio DJ and TV presenter. She is of Tswana ethnicity. Danke is known for her extensive role playing on South African soap operas, Backstage, Generations,Gomora and Isidingo.
Michaela Ewuraba Boakye-Collinson, known professionally as Michaela Coel, is a Ghanaian-British actress, filmmaker, singer, and composer. She is best known for creating and starring in the E4 sitcom Chewing Gum (2015–2017), for which she won the BAFTA Award for Best Female Comedy Performance; and the BBC One/HBO comedy-drama series I May Destroy You (2020) for which she won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress in 2021. For her work on I May Destroy You, Coel was the first black woman to win the Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special at the 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards.
Linda Sokhulu is a South African actress. In 2014, she received best actress nomination at the 10th Africa Movie Academy Awards.
Nthati Moshesh is a South African actress. She was nominated as Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in 2016.
Queen Sono is a South African crime drama streaming television series created by Kagiso Lediga that premiered on Netflix on February 28, 2020. The series stars Pearl Thusi, Vuyo Dabula, Sechaba Morojele, Chi Mhende, Loyiso Madinga, Rob van Vuuren, Kate Liquorish, Khathu Ramabulana, Enhle Maphumulo, Abigail Kubeka, Connie Chiume, Otto Nobela and James Ngcobo and features Mario Diederiks. It is Netflix's first African original series.
Hlubi Mboya, also known as Hlubi Mboya-Arnold, is a South African actress.
Zandile Msutwana is a South African actress best known for her leading role as Akua Yenana on the 2007–2010 SABC 1 drama series Society.
Albertina Jaxa is a South African actress. Jaxa began her career with roles on the television soap operas Generations (1993) and Isidingo (1998–2000).
Gomora is a South African television drama series produced by Seriti Films. The series is filmed in the Alexandra township, hence the name of the series. Gomora is a story about inequality. It's about the rich and the poor, how fine the line between the two can be. It is an M-Net original production commissioned for M-Net's local interest channel Mzansi Magic. The drama series replaced Isthembiso, which had not been renewed for a fourth season. The series tells a story of two families in two different lifestyles and how their lives intertwine by a tragedy..
Blood & Water is a South African teen crime drama television series developed by Gambit Films for Netflix starring Ama Qamata, Khosi Ngema and Gail Mabalane. Set in Cape Town, the series follows a girl who transfers to an elite school when she suspects one of the students may be her sister, who was abducted as a baby.
Amamkele Lithemba Qamata is a South African actress. She is known for her roles as Buhle Ndaba in the Mzansi Magic series Gomora and Puleng Khumalo in the hit Netflix series Blood & Water.
Nokuthula Ledwaba, is a South African actress. She is best known for her roles in the popular serials Rhythm City and The River.
Bongiwe Brenda Ngxoli, is a South African actress, model, dancer and director. She is best known for her roles in the television serials; Home Affairs, Ses' Top La and Hustle.
Thembi Seete, is a South African actress, singer, rapper, television presenter and model. She is best known as a member of former kwaito group Boom Shaka. Currently, she plays the role of "Gladys" in the Mzansi Magic telenovela Gomora.
Lindiwe Thembekani "Thembeka" Ndlovu was a South African actress. She is best known for the roles in the films Little One (2013), Safari (2013) and Winnie Mandela (2011).
Nomathemba 'Thembisile' Matu, also known as Thembsie Matu, is a South African actress and television presenter. She is best known for the roles in the television serials such as Tshisa, Rockville and The Queen.
Nozipho Nkelemba, is a South African actress, casting director, director, brand endorser, and scriptwriter. She is best known for the roles in the television serials such as; Rhythm City, Mzansi Love and Heartlines.
Sonia Mbele is a South African actress, model, tv producer and entrepreneur. She produced the first ever Real Housewives franchise in Africa, and is the executive producer for Real Housewives of Johannesburg.
