VINETTE EBRAHIM

Height 1,54m Eyes Brown Hair Grey Languages , English

FILM

BARAKAT Aisha Dir Amy Jephta SALVATION Vera Williams Dir Carmen Sangion GOD is AFRICAN Dean Dir Akin Omotoso

TELEVISION

SWIRL (a Letter to Hair on the Cape Flats) TV Film Dir Quanita Adams

Skemerdans (Series) Mercia Fortune Showmax

7eLaan (Daily Drama) Charmaine / Vivian SABC She has played the central role of Charmaine Beukes Meintjies on the South African television soap opera 7de Laan since 2000. Soutmansland (Series) Jamaima Killian SABC The Syndicate (Series) Mrs Maharaj SABC Die Sonkring II (Series) Joanne SABC Barney Barnato (Mini-series) Fanny Bees SABC

THEATRE Biography (Full list available on request) Vinette has stated that she learned acting "on the hoof" in , working as a stagehand, actor, and other jobs in the theatre. Now, highly acclaimed, she has performed in theatres all over the world. Ebrahim has performed in theatres and at theatre festivals throughout , including Suidoosterfees and the Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees. At the Klein Karoo festival in 2007, she performed in an Afrikaans-language production of Athol Fugard's play, Boesman en Lena She received the Kanna Award for Best Actress for her role as Lena. At the 2013 Naledi Theatre Awards, Ebrahim won the award for Best Performance in a Play in a Leading Role (Female) for My Naam/Name is Ellen Pakkies. The play tells the real-life story of a South African woman convicted of killing her drug-addicted son after enduring years of abuse. Ebrahim has also written plays, including Die Ongelooflike Reis van Max en Lola, a two-character work she co- wrote with South African playwright and director Hugo Taljaard. Ebrahim based the play in part on her long- time friendship with South African actor Chris van Niekerk. In the play and in real life, the friendship between a gay white man and a Coloured woman persisted. At the Klein Karoo festival in 2016, she performed in Invisible, another play she authored in English and Afrikaans. In Invisible, she portrayed a homeless woman who once was a resident of Cape Town's . Ebrahim has also created a one-woman show about her life, Praat Die Storie Smaak Kry (Let's Spice It Up), which she has performed in Afrikaans and English throughout South Africa as part of National Women's Day celebrations.

Awards

• 2007 : Best Actress in Boesman en Lena at the Klein Karoo arts Festival • 2008 : Rapport/City Press Woman of the Year in the Arts Award • 2010 : Rapport Skouerklop Award for her Contribution to the Arts • 2012 : Gariepfees Award for Contribution to the Arts • 2014 : Naledi Theatre Award for Best Performance in a Play in a Leading Role (Female) for My Naam/Name is Ellen Pakkies • 2014 : YOU Spectacular Award – Favourite Actress for 7e Laan