Ntare Mwine
Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, often credited as Ntare Mwine, is an American-Ugandan stage and film actor, playwright, photographer and documentarian.
Background
Mwine was born in New Hampshire to Ugandan parents in 1967[1]. His father was a Harvard Law School-educated attorney.[2][1] His parents separated when Ntare was 4, with Ntare spending time with his father (then working in finance in the United States, including a period at the World Bank in Washington D.C.) and his mother (who returned to Africa to teach psychology at the University of Nairobi).[3]
Mwine earned a Masters' degree in Fine Arts from New York University. He also studied at the University of Virginia, the Moscow Arts Theatre, and the Royal National Theatre in London.[4] Basing himself in Los Angeles,[3] Mwine's first professional job was the role of Paul in the 1992 U.S. National Tour of Six Degrees of Separation, for which he received an NAACP Image Award nomination for Best Actor.[5]
Mwine married Ena Frias, a Cuban, in March 2001. The two divorced in 2007.
Television and film
While he has appeared in movies including Blood Diamond, where he made his film debut, Mwine has primarily appeared in American television series. His first appearance was in New York Undercover, in 1995. Recent appearances include a recurring role as the mysterious Usutu in Heroes, as Tom Adler in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, and as Maurice Devereaux in The Riches.
Photography
Mwine's photographic work has been displayed at the United Nations, UCLA's Fowler Museum of Cultural History, and other museums worldwide.[6]
His photography work was a central focus of Biro, prominently featured on Six Feet Under, and exhibited at galleries such as the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, The Latino Art Museum, The United Nations, and Rush Arts Gallery.
Stage
Ntare Mwine began appearing in stage productions in 1992, appearing as the conman posing as the son of Sidney Poitier in Six Degrees of Separation[7], and in The Riddles Of Race, Circa '68 in 1994,[8] In 1992 and 1997, Mwine was nominated for a Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Non-Resident Production, for his part in "Six Degrees of Separation" at The National Theatre and Nomathemba - at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.. He played Julius Van George in Scent of the Roses at the Seattle Contemporary Theatre in 1998.[9]
His first effort as a playwrite, a barestage[10] one-man show entitled "Biro", about a HIV-positive Ugandan former rebel soldier who enters the United States illegally for treatment. The play, based on a 90-minute explanation from the eponymous character to his lawyer about how he came to be in an Texas jail cell[1][11], premiered in early 2003 at Uganda's National Theatre[5], before showing at the Joseph Papp Public Theater in New York, as well as in Los Angeles, Seattle, London, and throughout Africa.[4] He performed it in front of multiple African heads of state and then-UN General Secretary Kofi Annan in 2004.[3] The Seattle Post-Intelligencer described his performance as "radiant", particularly so given the dark subject matter.[12]
Documentary work
Mwine's inaugural documentary, Beware of Time, screened in 2004 at the Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles and the Black International Cinema in Berlin. Describing the lives of HIV-positive Ugandans, it was named the Best Film on Matters Relating to Marginalized People,[4] and features a rare interview with Amule Amin, Idi Amin's brother.[13]
References
- ^ a b c 'I just take what strikes me', The Guardian, November 27 2003
- ^ "Ntare Mwine Is New Kid in the Spotlight in 'Six Degrees'", LA Times, October 31, 1992
- ^ a b c Ntare Mwine's journey of discovery, LA Times, Oct 19, 2005
- ^ a b c Warner Brothers biography for Blood Diamond
- ^ a b Beware of Time - interview with Ntare Mwine
- ^ Ntari Mwine biography
- ^ On the road with Marlo Thomas, New York Times, February 14, 1993
- ^ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C07E2DE133CF930A15750C0A962958260&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss Review/Theater; The Day the Bronx Died, New York Times, March 23, 1994
- ^ 'Scent Of The Roses' - South African Drama Lacks Dynamism, Is Grounded By Earthbound Writing, Seattle Times, July 24, 1998
- ^ AIDS theater now: A continent's crisis, Seattle Times, April 3, 2005
- ^ Theatre Guide, New York Times, April 30, 2004
- ^ One-man 'Biro' shines amid appalling themes, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, April 15, 2005
- ^ Otiso, Kefa M. (2006). Culture and Customs of Uganda. Greenwood. p. 47. ISBN 0313331480. Retrieved 2008-10-10.
External links
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- www.bewareoftime.com - Beware of Time official site
- www.gumadesign.com - Photography work