Pamela Nomvete

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Pamela Nomvete
Born1963 (age 59–60)
Ethiopia
Alma mater Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama
OccupationActress

Pamela Nomvete (born 1963) is an Ethiopian-born South African/British actress.

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Life

Pamela Nomvete was born in Ethiopia to South African parents. She spent her childhood in many different countries, and attended boarding school in the United Kingdom, later studying at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. [1] At one point she lived in Manchester, where her sister was a student. [2] After working as an actress in the United Kingdom, Nomvete moved to Johannesburg, South Africa in 1994, after the election of Nelson Mandela as president and the formal end of apartheid.

In the 1990s, Nomvete embarked on a television career, achieving fame in the South African soap opera Generations . Her character Ntsiki Lukhele was "TV's ultimate super-bitch: power-hungry, manipulative and deadly". [3] However, Nomvete herself struggled with depression after her husband's infidelity and her divorce. As her life unravelled, at one point she was living in her car, selling clothes for food and cigarettes. [3]

In Zulu Love Letter (2004), Nomvete played Thandi, a single mother and journalist struggling to communicate with her estranged thirteen-year-old daughter. When Thandi was pregnant with her child, she had been attacked by an apartheid hit squad, leaving the child deaf mute. Nomvete's performance won her a FESPACO Best Actress Award in 2005. [4]

In 2012–13, she appeared in the long-running UK soap opera Coronation Street , playing Mandy Kamara, an old flame of the character Lloyd Mullaney (played by Craig Charles). It would later be discovered that Lloyd was the biological father of Mandy's daughter Jenna. [5]

In 2013 she published an autobiography, Dancing to the Beat of the Drum: In Search of My Spiritual Home. [6]

Nomvete practices Nichiren Buddhism. [2]

In 2023, Nomvete voiced Ntsiki Lukhele in the animated series Supa Team 4 . [7]

Film appearances

Stage appearances

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References

  1. ↑ Pamela Nomvete bares all with Thandolwethu, East Coast Radio, 7 May 2019.
  2. 1 2 South African actress Pamela Nomvete shares her incredible story, jacaranda fm, September 19, 2018.
  3. 1 2 Eddie Maluleke Kalili, Generations’ Ntsiki spills the beans, YOU, 25 January 2013.
  4. ↑ Martin Botha (2013). South African Cinema 1896–2010. Intellect Books. p. 185. ISBN   978-1-78320-330-7.
  5. ↑ Amy Duncan, Pamela Nomvete waves goodbye to Coronation Street, Metro , 1 August 2013.
  6. ↑ Andile Ndlovu, Ex-Generations star reveals messy personal life, Sowetan Live, 17 January 2013.
  7. ↑ Ntwasa, Thango (14 July 2023). "Bad girl gone good gogo: Pamela Nomvete on new role in 'Supa Team 4'". Sunday Times . Archived from the original on 15 July 2023. Retrieved 15 July 2023.
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