Young African Actors with Talent
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Tongayi Chirisa was born in Harare, Zimbabwe. He is an actor and producer, known for The Jim Gaffigan Show (2015), iZombie (2015) and Wolfenstein: The New Order (2014).- Ido Drent was born on 27 January 1987 in Pretoria, South Africa. He is an actor, known for Ash vs Evil Dead (2015), Offspring (2010) and The Gulf (2019).
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Adam Croasdell is a British/American actor, writer and producer who was born and raised in Africa. He lived and worked extensively in the UK and currently works in the United States. His first professional job was with Dame Helen Mirren and Alan Rickman in Anthony and Cleopatra at the National Theatre in London. Adam has worked on London's West End and appeared in numerous British television shows, including Peak Practice, The Chase, EastEnders, and Agatha Christie's Poirot. In the US he is known for his work on Monarch, with Susan Sarandon; Preacher; Reign; Once Upon A Time; NCIS, and Supernatural. Adam has starred and guest starred in films for Universal and Sony.
He is currently playing the role of The Marshall in the new Russo brothers film, The Electric State, alongside Millie Bobby Brown, Chris Pratt and Stanley Tucci.
Adam is also a voice artist, performing lead characters for major video game franchises including James Bond, Dead Island, Middle Earth, Call Of Duty, Borderlands and Final Fantasy. For television he has voiced characters in The Witcher, Castlevania and Blood Of Zeus. Adam is nominated for 3 BTVA Video Game Voice Acting Awards, including Best Male Performance for Final Fantasy XV.- Actor
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Ncuti Gatwa was born on 15 October 1992 in Nyarugenge, Kigali, Rwanda. He is an actor, known for Barbie (2023), Sex Education (2019) and Doctor Who (2023).- Actor
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Joe Flynn, A.K.A. Johnny Flynn, is an English poet, musician, and actor. He is the son of Eric Flynn, who was an actor who specialized in musicals. As a child, Johnny sang in the Winchester College chapel choir. He knew that he wanted to be a musician after listening to the Bob Dylan record, "Freewheelin,'" when he was eleven years old. Johnny is now the front-man of the English folk band, "Johnny Flynn And The Sussex Witt." His band has released three albums, "A Larum" (2008), "Been Listening" (2010) and "Country Mile" (2013).- Actor
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Troye Sivan Mellet is South African-born YouTuber, actor, model and singer known for his roles in The Spud Franchise, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and Boy Erased (2018). He moved to Perth, Australia when he was two years old. Troye has two brothers and a sister, and was raised Modern Orthodox. In 2018, his family moved to Melbourne. Troye lives in LA where he has a house. He has over 6.6 million subscribers on YouTube as of October 2018, with videos ranging from song covers to challenge videos to original songs and music videos. One of his earlier videos, a collaboration filmed with fellow YouTube star Tyler Oakley titled 'The Boyfriend Tag' even won a Kid's Choice award in 2014.
Over the past couple of years, Troye has released two EPs, the one in 2014 being TRXYE and the one in 2015 being WILD. His unique blend of electro-pop and smooth melodies have taken him as high as number fifteen on Billboard's Social 50 list, which chronicles the most influential names in music today. Along with WILD and the lead single Talk Me Down off of his new album Blue Neighbourhood which came out on 4 December 2015, he released a trilogy of music videos titled Blue Neighbourhood.
Both of his EPs have debuted at number five on the Billboard Top 200, his album debuting at number seven and he has won several awards for his work, including most recently an EMA.- Lucas Radebe was born on 12 April 1969 in Johannesburg, South Africa.
- Lemogang Tsipa, a character actor is on the rise of his career. Lemogang Tsipa made his film debut in local film Felix (2013) and his local television debut in Forced love (2012-2016). His first major international supporting role was in, British thriller, Eye in the sky (2015) where he played the role of 'Matt Laver' the Mission Intel Coordinator, in the same year he also landed another international supporting role alongside Sir. Kenneth Branagh in Wallander (2015) in which he delivered a memorable and touching performance. His body of work consists of Alien outpost(2014), Homeland (2014), Traffic (2014), The Golden Rule (2014), Cape Town (2015), The Book of Negroes (2015), Lazy Suzan (2015), Jamillah and Aladdin (2015), Black Sails (2016), Jab (2016), Roots (2016), Oasis (2017), Amandla (2017), The Number (2017) and The Dark Tower (2017). 2017 Marks the year this actor makes his Film debut lead role in, Craig Friemond's, Beyond The River (2017) where he plays Duma, a talented young man who feels trapped by his circumstances and finds himself on the wrong side of the law, he attempts to overcome his obstacles through his journey in the sport of canoeing.