Ugandan actor, Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, lands big roles on Hollywood’s Big Screen
by Ugandan Diaspora Team | April 5, 2011 9:00 am
Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine received his MASTERS Degree of Fine Arts in Acting from New York University and completed studies at The Moscow Arts Theatre in Russia, The Royal National Theatre in London and The University of Virginia. An accomplished photographer and writer, Ntare’s photographic work has been featured on HBO’s television series Six Feet Under and also exhibited at the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, The Latino Art Museum, The United Nations, Rush Arts Gallery and Museum Africa in Johannesburg to name a few.
Ntare’s first effort as a playwright is Biro, a multi-media solo performance piece, which held its World Premiere at Uganda’s National Theatre and subsequently premiered in London, then in New York at The Joseph Papp Public Theatre where it made the “New York Times critics pick list.” The production has since premiered in Los Angeles, Seattle, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa and Zimbabwe.
Ntare’s other acting credits include leading roles at The Steppenwolf Theatre, The Kennedy Center, The Lincoln Center, ACT, The Long Wharf Theatre and the National Tour of Six Degrees of Separation for which he received an NAACP Image Award nomination for Best Actor.
Ntare’s first effort as filmmaker is a documentary entitled Beware Of Time. The film received its first broadcast in Uganda and subsequently screened at the Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles and the Black International Cinema in Berlin where it was selected as Best film on matters relating to Marginalized People.
BLOOD DIAMONDS Set against the backdrop of the 1990s civil war in Sierra Leone, this politically charged thriller stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a soldier of fortune who learns that Mende fisherman Djimon Hounsou has unearthed a priceless pink diamond. As the pair tries to recover the gem from the ruthless rebels who possess it and rescue Hounsou’s kidnapped child, they encounter American journalist Jennifer Connelly, who wishes to expose the diamond-trafficking trade that runs rampant throughout West Africa.
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