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Actor

Tsitsi Dangarembga

Directing

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Acting credits

1

Early stage

Smaller on-screen catalog so far.

TMDB popularity

0.2

Low visibility

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Movies: 8Series: 0Crew credits: 7

TMDB ID: 1378415

IMDb ID: nm0199483

Known for: Directing

Place of birth: Mutoko, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe)

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1991 - 2011

Years active: 21

Wikidata: Q270837

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Biography

Tsitsi Dangarembga (born 4 February 1959) is a Zimbabwean novelist, playwright, and filmmaker. Her debut novel, Nervous Conditions (1988), which was the first to be published in English by a Black woman from Zimbabwe, was named by the BBC in 2018 as one of the top 100 books that have shaped the world. In 2020, her novel This Mournable Body was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.