Kudzai Chimbaira | |
---|---|
Born | Zimbabwe | 13 October 1985
Died | January 2018 | (aged 32)
Occupation(s) | Actor, director |
Awards | National Arts merit's awards. Zimbabwe International Film Festival, 2007 |
Kudzai Chimbaira (13 October 1985 – January 2018) was a Swedish-Zimbabwean actor and director. [1]
She made her debut in 2005 in the short film Pamvura, and in 2007 she received an award at the Zimbabwe International Film Festival [2] for best actress in a short film for playing the main character in the film The Return. The same year she also received a Zimbabwe's National Arts Merit Awards for her role in the play Anatol. [3] [4]
In 2008 she directed the play Silent Words for Harare International Festival of the Arts, [2] [5] and the same year she won an award for best actress in the Carthage Film Festival [2] [5] for her role in the film Zimbabwe. In 2008 she also moved to Sweden. [2] [5]
In Sweden she started the theater Integrationsteatern [5] and was active in the Cinemafrica film festival, chairman of the diversity initiative Tryck, and acted in many plays, and the film Medan vi lever. [6]
Chimbaira died in January 2018, 32 years old.