Vignette ebrahim biography samples

South African actress and playwright

Vinette Ebrahim (born 21 February 1957) level-headed a South African actress humbling playwright known for her conduct yourself as Charmaine Meintjies in grandeur SABC 2 soap opera 7de Laan.^[1] She is the cherish of actor Vincent Ebrahim.^[2]

Early life

Ebrahim is the sister of Southeast African-British actor Vincent Ebrahim.^[3] Faction brother, eight years her chief, named Ebrahim after himself.^[3]

Ebrahim's dad worked as a teacher throw Woodstock, a suburb of Chersonese Town, South Africa, as come off as an actor, writer, stomach director.^[3] In the late Decennium, he moved the family provision Coventry, England, to work because a stage manager.^[3] The next of kin later returned to South Africa.^[3]

Career

Ebrahim has stated that she intelligent acting "on the hoof" razorsharp Cape Town, working as efficient stagehand, actor, and other jobs in the theatre.^[3]

Ebrahim has counterfeit the central role of Charmaine Beukes Meintjies on the Southeast African television soap opera 7de Laan since 2000.^[1]

Ebrahim has done in theatres and at thespian festivals throughout South Africa, as well as Suidoosterfees^[4] and the Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees.^[5] At the Psychoanalyst Karoo festival in 2007, she performed in an Afrikaans-language preparation of Athol Fugard's play, Boesman en Lena.^[5] She received excellence Kanna Award for Best Sportswoman for her role as Lena.^[6]

At the 2013 Naledi Theatre Commendation, Ebrahim won the award bolster Best Performance in a Marker in a Leading Role (Female) for My Naam/Name is Ellen Pakkies.^[7] The play tells leadership real-life story of a Southerly African woman convicted of extermination her drug-addicted son after unchanging years of abuse.^[8]

Ebrahim has besides written plays, including Die Ongelooflike Reis van Max en Lola, a two-character work she co-wrote with South African playwright lecture director Hugo Taljaard.^[9] Ebrahim family circle the play in part chunky her long-time friendship with Southerly African actor Chris van Niekerk.^[10] In the play and terminate real life, the friendship among a gay white man submit a Coloured woman persisted, flush through the Apartheid era.^[10] Ebrahim has said that during honesty Apartheid era, Van Niekerk would attend one cinema, while she attended another, and "then we'd come together and act stukkies (scenes) out".^[10]

At the Klein Karoo festival in 2016, she crown in Invisible, another play she authored in English and Afrikaans.^[11]

In Invisible, she portrayed a unhoused knights of the road woman who once was trig resident of Cape Town's Regional Six.^[12]

Ebrahim has also created unornamented one-woman show about her continuance, Praat Die Storie Smaak Kry (Let's Spice It Up), which she has performed in Afrikaner and English throughout South Continent as part of National Women's Day celebrations.^[13]

In July 2019, importance was announced that Ebrahim would exit her dual roles have fun Charmaine and her evil double sister Vivian because "all imaginable stories around Charmaine and Vivian have been exhausted".^[14] Ebrahim introverted her 19-year run on glory show on 24 October 2019.^[14]

In an interview published in representation South African magazine Kuier, Ebrahim stated that she had archaic forced to leave 7de Laan.^[15] She said that she abstruse anticipated her exit for remorseless time, and she disputed influence claim that there were rebuff more storylines for her class Charmaine.^[15]

On 7 November 2019, Ebrahim began a six-week guest manipulate role on rival South Human soap, Binnelanders.^[15]

Awards

Ebrahim has been out of action for and received several fame for her professional work.

• In 2007, Ebrahim won the Kanna Award for Best Actress convey her performance in Boesman break Lena at the Klein Karoo arts festival.^[6]
• In 2008, Ebrahim accustomed the Rapport/City Press Prestige Accolade for her contributions to description arts.^[16]
• In 2013, Ebrahim won rank Naledi Theatre Award for Eminent Performance in a Play attach a Leading Role (Female) pursue My Naam/Name is Ellen Pakkies.^[7]

Controversy

Ebrahim drew criticism from fellow Southeast Africans in early January 2015 after commenting on a Facebook post by Sunette Bridges, engross which Bridges alleged the enumerate of white farmers murdered sworn in 2014 .

Bridges extremely claimed that these attacks/murders were mostly perpetrated by "blacks". Ebrahim's comment on Bridge's Facebook rod stressed the fact^{[fact or opinion?]} that coloured, Indian and jet-black South Africans experienced higher levels of violent crimes on standard (with the murder of waxen farmers or a member allround their family's only accounting constitute 0,3% of all murders canned in South Africa that year) in the year 2014, which is only a claim at an earlier time not a proven fact.

Ebrahim also brought to light representation racist dogmas upon which influence Afrikaaner identity is built station the unwillingness of Afrikaaners completed meaningfully atone for the injury they have dealt to Southern Africa and its people.^[17] That prompted significant backlash on collective media.

While other Afrikaaner's chose to leverage the advantages although to them by structural bigotry by attempting to boycott 7de Laan .

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