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

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. At one point she lived in Manchester, where her sister was a student.South African actress Pamela Nomvete shares her incredible story
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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 ''

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''. Her character Ntsiki Lukhele was "TV's ultimate super-bitch: power-hungry, manipulative and deadly".Eddie Maluleke Kalili
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''YOU'', 25 January 2013. 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. In ''

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'' (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. In 2012–13, she appeared in the long-running UK soap opera ''

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'', playing

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, 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. In 2013 she published an autobiography, ''Dancing to the Beat of the Drum: In Search of My Spiritual Home''.Andile Ndlovu
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''Sowetan Live'', 17 January 2013. Nomvete practices Nichiren Buddhism.

Film appearances

* '' Born Free: A New Adventure'', 1996 * ''

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'', 2005 * '' Lockdown'', 2021

Stage appearances

* ''Now or Later'' by

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at the Royal Court Theatre, 2008 * '' Welcome to Thebes'' by

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at the

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, 2010

References

External links

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Pamela Nomvete Pamela Nomvete
'' Encyclopaedia of South African Theatre, Film, Media and Performance (ESAT)''. {{DEFAULTSORT:Nomvete, Pamela 1964 births Living people South African soap opera actresses South African film actresses South African stage actresses Ethiopian emigrants to South Africa 20th-century South African actresses 21st-century South African actresses Alumni of the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama Nichiren Buddhists