Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine

Biography

Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine is an American actor, playwright, photographer and documentarian. He was born in 1967 in Hanover, New Hampshire, and trained at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where he earned a master's degree in fine arts in 1992. His first professional job was as Paul in the 1992 national tour of Six Degrees of Separation, which earned him an NAACP Image Award nomination, and he received Helen Hayes Award nominations in 1992 and 1997 for stage roles. He made his film debut in Blood Diamond (2006). On television he appeared in New York Undercover, Heroes, The Riches, Treme and The Chi, and he played Detective Raymond Griggs in The Lincoln Lawyer. His one-man play Biro premiered in Uganda in 2003 and later played at the Public Theater and elsewhere, and his documentaries include Beware of Time and Memories of Love Returned (2024).

59years old

Turns 60 on May 1in 198 days

Born May 1, 1967New Hampshire
Star sign: TaurusThe sign runs April 20 to May 20

Movie Career

Films: 6
Career span: 18 years2006 to 2024

Genres

Drama83%, 5 films
Action17%, 1 film
Adventure17%, 1 film
Biography17%, 1 film
Documentary17%, 1 film

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First role
Mwine landed his first professional role as Paul in the 1992 U.S. National Tour of Six Degrees of Separation, and that performance brought him an NAACP Image Award nomination for Best Actor.
A role that slipped away
Mwine was originally cast as Joseph in the unaired pilot of Heroes, but the part was cut when NBC picked up the show because the character's plot involved terrorist activity.
Early training
Mwine trained at New York University's Graduate Acting Program at the Tisch School of the Arts, earning a master's degree in Fine Arts in 1992, and also studied at the Moscow Arts Theatre and the Royal National Theatre in London.
About the name
Until 2008, Mwine was credited simply as Ntare Mwine. After that year, he started going by his full name, Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine.