Joy Keys chats with Actor Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine - a podcast by Joy Keys MSW LSW

NTARE GUMA MBAHO MWINE starred as Ronnie in three seasons of the hit Showtime series The Chi. 


He plays the lead role in the film Farewell Amor, for which he won the Best Actor award at the Durban International Film Festival. The award-winning film (in competition at the Sundance Film Festival 2020) will be released by IFC Films in December. 


He will next star in the independent feature Tazmanian Devil, directed by Solomon Onita, Jr.. 


Mwine is currently set to write, direct and produce a feature-length documentary about Ugandan studio photographer Kibaate Aloysius Ssalongo. 


He appeared in Mira Nair's Queen of Katwe, opposite Lupita Nyong'o; Boost; Blood Diamond, opposite Leonardo DiCaprio; and starred in the indie feature 40. 


He's had recurring roles in several TV series, including David Simon's Treme, Bosch and Heroes. 


Mwine directed Kuhani, which won the Main Prize for Best Achievement in Directing at the International Kurzfilmtage Winterthur and was nominated for the 2014 Grand Jury Prize for Best Short Film at the Slamdance Film Festival. 


His documentary Beware of Time, won Best Film at the Berlin Black International Cinema Festival. 


Biro, a multi-media solo performance piece, was Mwine's first effort as a playwright. 


After premiering at Uganda's National Theatre, it opened in London and then at New York's Public Theater where it made The New York Times Critics' Pick list. 


His second multi-media solo piece, A Missionary Position, premiered in Los Angeles. 


Mwine's stage credits include leading roles at the Steppenwolf Theatre, The Kennedy Center, 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.

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