Packson Ngugi is a Kenyan
actor
An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), li ...
. He has played roles in plays and movies, and appeared in Kenyan TV commercials. He hosted a TV show, ''Omo Pick A Box'', in the late 1990s.
He played a mortuary attendant in the movie ''
The Constant Gardener
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''.
He is the founder o
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In the mid 1990s, Ngugi joined actors like the late
Joni Nderitu,
Paul Onsongo
Paul Onsongo (born 21 July 1948) is a Kenyan actor. He is most notable for the roles in the films ''Mountains of the Moon'', ''Küken für Kairo'' and ''The Flame Trees of Thika''.
Personal life
He was born on 21 July 1948 in Mombasa, Kenya.
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and
Ben Mutua Jonathan Muriithi
BMJ (Ben Mutua Jonathan) Muriithi (born Jonathan Nyaga; 4 May 1969) is a print, radio and television journalist and actor based in the United States. Muriithi is also a regional reporter and correspondent for NTV, a Kenyan media outlet, QTV, ...
(BMJ Muriithi), in holding demonstrations on the streets of Nairobi to protest the planned acquisition of
Kenya National Theatre Kenya National Theatre is part of the Kenya Cultural Centre, a Semi Autonomous Government Agency under the Ministry of State for National Heritage and Culture in Kenya. It is mandated to offer space for the rehearsal and staging of productions to b ...
by the adjacent Norfolk Hotel, an action that made the Kenyan government rescind its decision.
References
External links
IMDB entry
Kenyan male stage actors
Living people
Kenyan male film actors
20th-century Kenyan male actors
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
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