Pamela Nomvete
Pamela Nomvete is an Ethopian-born South African actress.
Life
Pamela Nomvete was born in Ethiopia to South African parents. She studied in the United Kingdom at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.[1] At one point she lived in Manchester, England, where her sister was a student.[2] After working as an actress in the United Kingom, Nomvete moved to South Africa in 1994.
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. As her life unraveled, 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 commmunicate with her estranged 13-year-old daughter. When Thandi was pregnant with her child, she had been attacked by an apartheid hit squad, leaving the child deaf and dumb. Nomvete's performance won her a FESPACO Best Actress Award in 2005.[4]
In 2012-13 she acted in the British soap opera Coronation Street, playing Mandy Kamara, an ex-girlfirend of the character Lloyd Mullaney (played by Craig Charles).[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]
Film appearances
- Born Free: A New Adventure, 1996
- Zulu Love Letter, 2004
- Sometimes in April, 2005
Stage appearances
- Now or Later by Christopher Shinn at the Royal Court Theatre, 2008
- Welcome to Thebes by Moira Buffini at the Royal National Theatre, 2010
References
- Pamela Nomvete bares all with Thandolwethu, East Coast Radio, 7 May 2019.
- South African actress Pamela Nomvete shares her incredible story, jacaranda fm, September 19, 2018.
- Eddie Maluleke Kalili, Generations’ Ntsiki spills the beans, YOU, 25 January 2013.
- Martin Botha (2013). South African Cinema 1896–2010. Intellect Books. p. 185. ISBN 978-1-78320-330-7.
- Amy Duncan, Pamela Nomvete waves goodbye to Coronation Street, Metro, 1 August 2013.
- Andile Ndlovu, Ex-Generations star reveals messy personal life, Sowetan Live, 17 January 2013.
External links
- Pamela Nomvete on IMDb
- Pamela Nomvete Pamela Nomvete, Encyclopaedia of South African Theatre, Film, Media and Performance (ESAT).