Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine

✎ About Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine

Who is it?: Actor, Director, Writer

Birth Year: 1967

Years active: 1981–present

Website: www.bewareoftime.com

Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine

Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine was born on 1967, is Actor, Director, Writer. Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine is a dual citizen of Uganda and America working in the mediums of photography, theatre, film and television.Feature film acting credits include Mira Nair's "Queen of Katwe" where he plays opposite Oscar winner Lupita Nyong'o, "Boost" from Oscar winning producers Kieran Crilly and Frederic Bohbot, "Blood Diamond" from Oscar winning director Ed Zwick where Ntare plays opposite Oscar winner Leonardo DiCaprio and the indie feature "40," which Ntare starred in and premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.Ntare's film directing credits include "Kuhani," which won the main prize for Best Achievement in Directing at the International Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Switzerland and was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize for Best Short Film at Slamdance 2014. "Kuhani" also premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Palm Springs International ShortFest, the Institute of Contemporary Art London and the Film Society at Lincoln Center to name a few. His feature length documentary "Beware of Time," won Best film on matters relating to Marginalized People at the Berlin Black International Cinema Festival.TV acting credits include a series regular role on Emmy winner Lena Waithe's Showtime series The Chi, recurring roles on the Oscar and Emmy winner Steven Soderbergh's Cinemax series "The Knick," Emmy winner David Simon's HBO series "Treme," Emmy nominee Eric Overmyer's Amazon series "Bosch," and Emmy nominee Tim Kring's NBC series "Heroes," to name a few.Ntare's first effort as a playwright is Biro, a multi-media solo performance piece, which held its World Premiere at Uganda's National Theatre and subsequently premiered in London, then in New York at The Joseph Papp Public Theatre where it made the "New York Times critics pick list." The production also premiered in Los Angeles, Seattle, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Toronto. His second multi-media solo piece "A Missionary Position" held its World Premiere at RedCat Theatre in Los Angeles. Ntare's other theater acting credits include leading roles at The Steppenwolf Theatre, The Kennedy Center, The Lincoln Center, ACT, The Long Wharf Theatre. His first professional job was playing the lead role of Paul in the National Tour of Six Degrees of Separation for which he received an NAACP Image Award nomination for Best Actor.Ntare's photographic work has featured in Vanity Fair and exhibited at Mojo Gallery Dubai, Blue Sky Gallery, The United Nations, Rush Arts Gallery, the UCLA Fowler Museum, The Latino Art Museum, and has been featured on HBO's "Six Feet Under."Ntare received his MFA in Acting from New York University and completed studies at The Moscow Arts Theatre in Russia, The Royal National Theatre in London and The University of Virginia. Ntare is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Southern California (USC). He has also taught at Yale University and has taught theatre and film artists in more than a dozen countries in Africa.
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Biography/Timeline

1967

Mwine was born in Hanover, New Hampshire 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 went to Kenya to teach psychology at the University of Nairobi).

1992

Mwine began appearing in stage productions in 1992, appearing as the con man posing as Sidney Poitier's son 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 role 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.

1995

Mwine has appeared in movies including Blood Diamond, 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.

2003

Mwine's 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, depicting a 90-minute explanation from the eponymous character to his Lawyer about how he came to be in a Texas jail, premiered in early 2003 at Uganda's National Theatre. It later showed at the Joseph Papp Public Theater in New York, as well as in Los Angeles, Seattle, London, and throughout Africa. Mwine performed the work for 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.

2004

Mwine's inaugural documentary, Beware of Time, screened at the 2004 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, and features a rare interview with Amule Amin, brother of former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin.

2018

In 2018, Mwine featured as Ronnie in the Showtime television series The Chi, which follows residents of the Chicago South Side.