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Pamela Nomvete (born 1963) is an Ethiopian-born South African/British actress.
In the 1990s, Nomvete embarked on a television career, achieving fame in the South African soap opera Generations. Her character Ntsiki Lukhele was "TV's ultimate super-bitch: power-hungry, manipulative and deadly".Eddie Maluleke Kalili, Generations’ Ntsiki spills the beans, YOU, 25 January 2013. However, Nomvete herself struggled with depression after her husband's infidelity and her divorce. As her life unravelled, at one point she was living in her car, selling clothes for food and cigarettes.
In Zulu Love Letter (2004), Nomvete played Thandeka, a single mother and journalist struggling to communicate with her thirteen-year-old daughter. While pregnant with her child, Thandeka was tortured by an Apartheid hit squad, which she believes left the child deaf. Nomvete's performance won her a FESPACO Best Actress Award in 2005.
In 2012–13, she appeared in the long-running UK soap opera Coronation Street, playing Mandy Kamara, an old flame of the character Lloyd Mullaney (played by Craig Charles). It would later be discovered that Lloyd was the biological father of Mandy's daughter Jenna.Amy Duncan, Pamela Nomvete waves goodbye to Coronation Street, Metro, 1 August 2013.
In 2013 she published an autobiography, Dancing to the Beat of the Drum: In Search of My Spiritual Home.Andile Ndlovu, Ex-Generations star reveals messy personal life, Sowetan Live, 17 January 2013.
Nomvete practices Nichiren Buddhism.
In 2023, Nomvete voiced Ntsiki Lukhele in the animated series Supa Team 4.
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Categories: 1963 Births, Living People, South African Soap Opera Actresses, South African Film Actresses, South African Stage Actresses, Ethiopian Emigrants To South Africa, 20th-century South African Actresses, 21st-century South African Actresses, Alumni Of The Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, British Nichiren Buddhists, South African Buddhists
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