Terence Bridgett

(19*-) Actor and singer. Born and bred in Cape Town, began his schooling at the Drakensberg Boys Choir School, matriculated at SACS and graduated from University of Cape Town Drama School with a BA Performers Diploma in Speech and Drama and a Fleur du Cap nomination for Most Promising Student. After two years on stage in Cape Town, he went to Gauteng to become a TV actor.

Stage roles over the years have included dramas, comedies and musicals, among them Clare Stopford's Twelfth Night (1998), Babes in the Wood ( VITA nomination for Best Actor in a Comedy Role), . On the musical stage, Terence has been in Paul Warwick Griffin's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, Saturday Night Fever - The Musical , and Sing (Roodepoort, 2008, Pretoria & KKNK, 2010), Pinocchio and Pieter Toerien's Jesus Christ Superstar. He has also written and starred in a one-man cabaret, All Soaped Up.

In 2004, he and Rowan Cloete launched 8Ball Productions - a theatre company. The company has mounted Crimes of the Heart, Plofstof, The Unvarnished Truth, Poppie Nongena, Love! Valour! Compassion! and My Night with Reg.

Made his debut in television with Hotnotsgode, and has since appeared in various dramas, series and sitcoms. best known perhaps for his award-winning role as "Chico Booysens" in SABC 3's Isidingo. Other TV work includes appearences in 7de Laan, Backstage, Erfsondes, Binneland Sub Judice, The Lab, etc. Films include Skeem, E'Lollipop 2 and the 3D animated feature Jock of the Bushveld