Terry Pheto

Terry Pheto is a South African actress who was born in Evaton and raised in Soweto, where casting agent Moonyeenn Lee saw her in a theater group while Tsotsi was being cast. She made her screen debut in the Oscar-winning Tsotsi (2005) and went on to appear in films including Catch a Fire (2006), Goodbye Bafana (2007) and How to Steal 2 Million (2012). On television she had roles in the SABC1 dramas Justice for All, as Lerato, and Zone 14, as Pinky Khumba, and in Jacob's Cross as Mbali, and she played Fikile in the SABC2 mini-series Hopeville in 2009. She later joined the American soap The Bold and the Beautiful in the recurring role of Dr. Malaika Maponya, a heart surgeon. Her stage work includes The Toilet and The Devil's Protest, and she received a Golden Horn Award for best supporting actress for How to Steal 2 Million.