Charmaine Bingwa lands new US drama

Perth’s own Charmaine Bingwa, currently featuring in the final season of The Good Fight continues to kick goals in the US.

Next she will feature alongside Will Smith in Emancipation on Apple TV+.

This week she was cast alongside Nkeki Obi-Melekwe (Tina -The Tina Turner Musical) as series regulars on King Shaka, executive produced by Antoine Fuqua.

Rooted in actual events, King Shaka tells the story of the Zulu Empire founder Shaka (Babalola) and his unlikely rise to power, uniting multiple tribes across vast stretches of southern Africa in the early 19th century to transform his power into legend, on par with history’s most seminal figures. The outcast son of a Zulu Chief, Shaka is a visionary who is prophesied to become a king like none before him. In ferocious battles that test the body and soul, in alliances that test the bonds of love and friendship, a complex sociological system plays out that renders the human cost front and centre, for the victors as well as the vanquished, all in an effort to carve out a semblance of identity, fulfillment and ultimately, survival.

Bingwa portrays Isisa, a fierce and formidable warrior whose loyalty is thrown into question by a fateful encounter, Obi-Melekwe will play the Locust Queen, the mysterious leader of a nomadic tribe of outcasts who uses her deep knowledge of the spiritual world to her advantage.

The series is being produced by Showtime and likely to be seen through Paramount+ should it screen in Australia.

Bingwa, a previous recipient of The Heath Ledger Scholarship, is sister to Clive Bingwa, managing director of Nine Perth.

Source: Deadline