Motshabi Tyelele

Motshabi Tyelele (born 1969). Actress.

Youth
She was born in Tladi, Soweto.

Training
She is a graduate of UCT Drama (BA degree in speech and drama, 1990).

Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
Performances include Fatima Dike’s So What's New? at the Market Theatre, No-Good Friday, Nothing but the Truth, Blues for an Alabama Sky (Market Theatre 1997), Plastics (PACT 1999), The Blacks, Die Van Aardes van Grootoor, King Ubu, Two Weeks in September, Chameleon,  Robin's A Cruise-Ou.

She wrote Shwele Bawo!.

Television roles include Thando in Suburban Bliss and Eve in Madam and Eve.

TV presenter of Crossover.

Awards, etc
Artes award 1996 for her role as Thando in the SABC television series Suburban Bliss (best actress in a comedy).

Her play Shwele Bawo! was nominated as Best new play, Naledi, award year 2003.

She won a Naledi Award for Best performance of an actress in a lead role in Shwele Bawo!, February 2005.

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