Charmaine Bingwa

Charmaine Bingwa is an Australian actress who studied business and music before turning to acting. Born in Perth, she worked in the corporate world, then returned to university for a music degree in Sydney at the Australian Institute of Music, where an acting elective led to representation. She won critical acclaim on stage as Mrs. Muller in Doubt: A Parable and earned a Sydney Theatre Awards nomination. In 2018 she used a Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance Scholarship to train in New York at the Atlantic Theater Company, then won the Heath Ledger Scholarship. Her screen credits include Miranda Brooks in the science fiction horror Black Box (2020) and Dodienne, wife of Will Smith's Peter, in Antoine Fuqua's Emancipation (2022). She is known for Carmen Moyo in the CBS legal drama The Good Fight, and she also wrote, produced, co-directed and starred in Little Sista. She voiced Felicia Cox in QCode's podcast The Burned Photo.