Bonnie Mbuli
Bonnie Mbuli is a prominent South African actress and media personality known for role on productions such as Invictus, Home Affairs, SoulCity, Backstage and Gazlam and more!. Bonnie Mbuli is also businesswoman and presenter on Afternoon Express on SABC 3.
Bonnie has presented various magazine programs for television including Teleschool, Zapmag, Technics Heart of the Beat and Limits Unlimited.
In 2001, she landed a lead role in the hit television soap Backstage aimed at the South African youth. She was later cast in the role of Portia in the series Gazlam. This was followed by a role in the detective series Zero Tolerance.
Bonnie hosted a talk show in South Africa on SABC 1 entitled True-Life, won a role in the mini-series Homecoming, and appeared in two Canadian television series; Charlie Jade, a sci-fi epic and Scouts Safari – an adventure series set in the African wild. She completed a major role on Home Affairs for Penguin Films; a popular thirteen-part series that interlinked the lives of five very different women. Bonnie went on to appear in television series’ Soul City and Hillside in which she played the lead on both, for SABC 1 and SABC 2. She was then cast in the ground-breaking series, The Philanthropist for NBC (later also on SABC 3) – a prime time American Action drama TV series.
In film, she has played the role of singer Dolly Radebe, in Drum, the lead role in the Danish film, Blinded Angels, directed by the acclaimed Jon Bang Carlsen. In 2006 she played Precious Chamusso in the biographical thriller film about activists against apartheid, Catch a Fire. She also played Zindzi Mandela (Winnie Madikizela) in Clint Eastwood’s film, Invictus about Nelson Mandela, starring Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon.
Bonnie has starred in E.tv’s Rhythm City in a recurring role; on Mzansi Magic’s drama series Rockville as Dudu and on Etv’s ground-breaking crime investigation series Traffic.
In 2015, Bonnie starred opposite Sir Kenneth Charles Branagh as police woman Grace Mthembu in the popular British series Wallander. She is a pet lover.