Fikile Mthwalo

She was born on 13 April 1989 in Lesotho to a Mosotho father and Tanzanian mother.[3] She has a younger brother who lives in Cape Town. From 2001 to 2005, she attended to Machabeng International College based in Maseru. Then she moved to Bloemfontein, South Africa and completed her Matric in 2007, at St Michael Girls School. In 2009, she joined the University of Cape Town and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Film and Video Production.[4] Later in 2012, she obtained a degree in Film Studies at the Tisch School of Arts at New York University. After the graduation, she relocated to Johannesburg.[5]

She is married to a fellow South African actor Atandwa Kani since 24 December 2015. She met Kani during a television serial set where they got engaged and married a year after.[6] They planed their traditional marriage ‘Labolo’ after their wedding. Atandwa is the son of John Kani and Mandi Kani. Before their marriage, Mthwalo was in a relationship with a media personality, Thembisa Mdoda. The two broke up three years later.[4]

She started acting career in the popular soap opera, Isidingo. She became one of the top 24 finalists in an 'O Access Presenter Search' aired on channel O. In 2015, she made her first television lead role by playing the character of 'Ipeleng' in the serial It’s Complicated. Apart from that, she joined with several television commercials including Metropolitan, PEP, Omo, Shoprite, Etiselat Nigeria, Ponds, Hi-Malt Nigeria and Nivea UK. The she appeared in the telenovela Gold Diggers where she played the role 'Hlengiwe'.[4][3]

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