Ntare Mwine
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Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, is an American
-Uganda
n stage and film actor, playwright, photographer and documentarian.
to Ugandan parents in 1967. His father was a Harvard Law School
-educated attorney
. His parents separated when Ntare was 7, with Ntare spending time with his father (who was 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
).
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. Basing himself in Los Angeles
, 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.
, where he made his film debut. His first appearance in television was in New York Undercover
, in 1995. Recent appearances include a recurring role as the mysterious Usutu in Heroes
. Mwine originally had the role of "Joseph" in the unaired pilot episode of the show; this part was removed when NBC took on the show full-time, due to the character's plot revolving around terrorist activity. Mwine also appeared as Tom Adler in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
and as Maurice Devereaux in The Riches
.
Mwine currently plays a minor, yet recurring, character in HBO and David Simon
's new television series Treme
. The series deals with life in the Treme
district of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina
.
, The Latino Art Museum in Pomona, California
, UCLA's Fowler Museum of Cultural History, and other museums worldwide. It was a central focus of Biro, and prominently featured on Six Feet Under. His photography has also appeared in Vanity Fair
.
in Six Degrees of Separation, and in The Riddles Of Race, Circa '68 in 1994, 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.
His first effort as a playwright, a barestage 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 a Texas jail cell, premiered in early 2003 at Uganda's National Theatre, before showing at the Joseph Papp Public Theater in New York, as well as in Los Angeles, Seattle, London, and throughout Africa. He performed it in front of multiple African heads of state and then-UN General Secretary Kofi Annan
in 2004. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer
described his performance as "radiant", particularly so given the dark subject matter.
. Describing the lives of HIV-positive Ugandans, it was named the Best Film on Matters Relating to Marginalized People, and features a rare interview with Amule Amin, Idi Amin
's brother.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
-Uganda
Uganda
Uganda , officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa. Uganda is also known as the "Pearl of Africa". It is bordered on the east by Kenya, on the north by South Sudan, on the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the southwest by Rwanda, and on the south by...
n stage and film actor, playwright, photographer and documentarian.
Background
Mwine was born in New HampshireNew Hampshire
New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state was named after the southern English county of Hampshire. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Canadian...
to Ugandan parents in 1967. His father was a Harvard Law School
Harvard Law School
Harvard Law School is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, it is the oldest continually-operating law school in the United States and is home to the largest academic law library in the world. The school is routinely ranked by the U.S...
-educated attorney
Lawyer
A lawyer, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is "a person learned in the law; as an attorney, counsel or solicitor; a person who is practicing law." Law is the system of rules of conduct established by the sovereign government of a society to correct wrongs, maintain the stability of political...
. His parents separated when Ntare was 7, with Ntare spending time with his father (who was then working in finance in the United States, including a period at the World Bank
World Bank
The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans to developing countries for capital programmes.The World Bank's official goal is the reduction of poverty...
in Washington D.C.) and his mother (who returned to Africa to teach psychology at the University of Nairobi
University of Nairobi
The University of Nairobi is the largest university in Kenya. Although its history as an educational institution goes back to 1956, it did not become an independent university until 1970 when the University of East Africa was split into three independent universities: Makerere University in...
).
Mwine earned a Masters' degree in Fine Arts from New York University
New York University
New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
. He also studied at the University of Virginia
University of Virginia
The University of Virginia is a public research university located in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, founded by Thomas Jefferson...
, the Moscow Arts Theatre, and the Royal National Theatre
Royal National Theatre
The Royal National Theatre in London is one of the United Kingdom's two most prominent publicly funded theatre companies, alongside the Royal Shakespeare Company...
in London. Basing himself in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
, Mwine's first professional job was the role of Paul in the 1992 U.S. National Tour of Six Degrees of Separation
Six degrees of separation
Six degrees of separation refers to the idea that everyone is on average approximately six steps away, by way of introduction, from any other person on Earth, so that a chain of, "a friend of a friend" statements can be made, on average, to connect any two people in six steps or fewer...
, for which he received an NAACP Image Award nomination for Best Actor.
Television and film
Mwine has appeared in movies including Blood DiamondBlood Diamond (film)
Blood Diamond is a 2006 political thriller film co-produced and directed by Edward Zwick and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Connelly and Djimon Hounsou...
, where he made his film debut. His first appearance in television was in New York Undercover
New York Undercover
New York Undercover is an American police drama that aired on the FOX television network from 1994 to 1998. The series starred Malik Yoba as Detective J.C. Williams and Michael DeLorenzo as Detective Eddie Torres, two undercover detectives in New York City's 4th Precinct who were assigned to...
, in 1995. Recent appearances include a recurring role as the mysterious Usutu in Heroes
Heroes (TV series)
Heroes is an American science fiction television drama series created by Tim Kring that appeared on NBC for four seasons from September 25, 2006 through February 8, 2010. The series tells the stories of ordinary people who discover superhuman abilities, and how these abilities take effect in the...
. Mwine originally had the role of "Joseph" in the unaired pilot episode of the show; this part was removed when NBC took on the show full-time, due to the character's plot revolving around terrorist activity. Mwine also appeared as Tom Adler in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is an American crime drama television series, which premiered on CBS on October 6, 2000. The show was created by Anthony E. Zuiker and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer...
and as Maurice Devereaux in The Riches
The Riches
The Riches is an FX television series, which originally ran from March 15, 2007 to April 29, 2008, and starred Eddie Izzard and Minnie Driver.-History:...
.
Mwine currently plays a minor, yet recurring, character in HBO and David Simon
David Simon
David Simon is an American author, journalist, and a writer/producer of television series. He worked for the Baltimore Sun City Desk for twelve years. He wrote Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets and co-wrote The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood with Ed Burns...
's new television series Treme
Treme (TV series)
Treme is an American television drama series created by David Simon and Eric Overmyer that premiered on April 11, 2010 on HBO. It takes its name from Tremé, a neighborhood of New Orleans...
. The series deals with life in the Treme
Treme
Tremé is a neighborhood of the city of New Orleans. A subdistrict of the Mid-City District Area, its boundaries as defined by the City Planning Commission are Esplanade Avenue to the north, North Rampart Street to the east, St. Louis Street to the south and North Broad Street to the west...
district of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was a powerful Atlantic hurricane. It is the costliest natural disaster, as well as one of the five deadliest hurricanes, in the history of the United States. Among recorded Atlantic hurricanes, it was the sixth strongest overall...
.
Photography
Mwine's photographic work has been displayed at the United NationsUnited Nations
The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...
, The Latino Art Museum in Pomona, California
Pomona, California
-2010:The 2010 United States Census reported that Pomona had a population of 149,058, a slight decline from the 2000 census population. The population density was 6,491.2 people per square mile...
, UCLA's Fowler Museum of Cultural History, and other museums worldwide. It was a central focus of Biro, and prominently featured on Six Feet Under. His photography has also appeared in Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair (magazine)
Vanity Fair is a magazine of pop culture, fashion, and current affairs published by Condé Nast. The present Vanity Fair has been published since 1983 and there have been editions for four European countries as well as the U.S. edition. This revived the title which had ceased publication in 1935...
.
Stage
Mwine began appearing in stage productions in 1992, appearing as the conman posing as the son of Sidney PoitierSidney Poitier
Sir Sidney Poitier, KBE is a Bahamian American actor, film director, author, and diplomat.In 1963, Poitier became the first black person to win an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Lilies of the Field...
in Six Degrees of Separation, and in The Riddles Of Race, Circa '68 in 1994, In 1992 and 1997, Mwine was nominated for a Helen Hayes Award
Helen Hayes Award
A Helen Hayes Award is a theater award named for the famed actress Helen Hayes to recognize excellence in professional theater in the Washington, D.C. area since 1983. The awards are managed by Linda Levy Grossman. and presented by the Washington Theatre Awards Society.-Awards:The Helen Hayes...
for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Non-Resident Production
Helen Hayes Awards Non-Resident Acting
These Helen Hayes Awards are given for outstanding acting in non-resident or touring productions that are staged in the Washington, DC metropolitan area.-Outstanding Lead Actor in a Touring 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.
His first effort as a playwright, a barestage one-man show entitled Biro, about a HIV
HIV
Human immunodeficiency virus is a lentivirus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome , a condition in humans in which progressive failure of the immune system allows life-threatening opportunistic infections and cancers to thrive...
-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 a Texas jail cell, premiered in early 2003 at Uganda's National Theatre, before showing at the Joseph Papp Public Theater in New York, as well as in Los Angeles, Seattle, London, and throughout Africa. He performed it in front of multiple African heads of state and then-UN General Secretary Kofi Annan
Kofi Annan
Kofi Atta Annan is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the UN from 1 January 1997 to 31 December 2006...
in 2004. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is an online newspaper and former print newspaper covering Seattle, Washington, United States, and the surrounding metropolitan area...
described his performance as "radiant", particularly so given the dark subject matter.
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 BerlinBerlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
. Describing the lives of HIV-positive Ugandans, it was named the Best Film on Matters Relating to Marginalized People, and features a rare interview with Amule Amin, Idi Amin
Idi Amin
Idi Amin Dada was a military leader and President of Uganda from 1971 to 1979. Amin joined the British colonial regiment, the King's African Rifles in 1946. Eventually he held the rank of Major General in the post-colonial Ugandan Army and became its Commander before seizing power in the military...
's brother.
External links
- www.bewareoftime.com — Beware of Time official site
- www.gumadesign.com — Photography work