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Phill Lewis was born on 14 February 1968 in Uganda. He is an actor and director, known for Heathers (1988), City Slickers (1991) and The Suite Life of Zack & Cody (2005). He is married to Meagn Benton. They have two children.- Whitney Peak is known from Aaron Sorkin's directorial debut film "Molly's Game." She is also known for The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina - Part 3 and 4 as well as the Apple TV Plus series, Home Before Dark. She was born in Kampala, Uganda, where she lived until age 10 when the family moved to Port Coquitlam, British Columbia.
- Born in Kampala, Uganda Florence Kasumba is a German actress living in Berlin. She is best known for her work in the Marvel Cinematic Universe productions Captain America: Civil War (2016), Black Panther (2018), Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021). She has also appeared in the films I Love You Too (2001), Transpapa (2012) and in the TV series The Quest (2014), Dominion (2014), Emerald City (2016), Deutschland 86 (2018) and Criminal (2019).
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Richard Gibson was born on 1 January 1954 in Kampala, Uganda. He is an actor, known for 'Allo 'Allo! (1982), The Go-Between (1971) and Wainwrights' Law (1980). He is married to Kate. They have two children.- Actress
- Composer
- Sound Department
Sheila Atim was born in January 1991 in Uganda. She is an actress and composer, known for The Woman King (2022), Bruised (2020) and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022).- Actor
- Producer
- Soundtrack
At the age of 9, Adrian Hall made his feature film debut as Jeremy Potts in the musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968). Afterward, he appeared in several UK television programs and performed in the West End through the early 1970s. Hall shifted his career from acting to education to become an acting teacher and eventually, principal at a London-based school.- Actor
- Writer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Danny Keogh is a veteran actor whose work strongly ties itself to the theatre. A native of South African, born in Uganda, Danny's theatrical career earned him numerous award nominations. Danny's screen debut was in 1977 and since then added onto an extensive career spanning over 3 decades. His most notable screen credits include the Clint Eastwood-directed film Invictus (2009) and the Sci-Fi trilogy-marker Starship Troopers 3: Marauder (2008). Notable television appearances include The Lost Future (2010) (TV), The Sinking of Laconia (2011) (TV) and Labyrinth (2012) (TV).- Director
- Writer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Hicks was born in Uganda and lived in Kenya, just outside Nairobi, until the age of ten. His family then moved, first to England and, when he was 14, on to Adelaide, Australia. Hicks graduated from Flinders University of South Australia (BA Honors) in 1975 and was awarded an honorary doctorate in 1997. Hicks is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. He lives with his wife and collaborator/producer Kerry Heysen in Adelaide, South Australia where they maintain their own Yacca Paddock Vineyard on the Fleurieu Peninsula. They have two sons, Scott Heysen and Jethro Heysen-Hicks. Also an accomplished photographer, Hicks has had three exhibitions of his work.- Idi Amin Dada Oumee was born in the rural village of Koboko, Uganda, in 1923, a member of the Kakwa tribe. Raised in the isolated farming country of northwestern Uganda, Amin received a scant education which left him functionally illiterate.
During the Second World War, at the age of 18, he enlisted in the British Army in the East African Rifles and fought in Burma against the Japanese. At the end of the war Amin joined the British 4th Ugandan Battalion. After distinguishing himself in the fight against Kenya's Mau Maus between 1953 and 1957, Amin was promoted to sergeant major and admitted to an officer training program. Despite his lack of formal education, he proved to be one of Uganda's most able military commanders.
In 1964, two years after Uganda was granted independence from Great Britian, Amin was appointed deputy chief of the nation's army and air force with the rank of colonel. When Amin's friend, Dr. Milton Obote, seized power in Uganda in February 1966, he placed Amin as his right-hand man in full command of the armed forces, promoting him to major general in 1968. By 1970 a rift had developed between the two men, both wanting more power.
On January 25, 1971, Amin overthrew Obote in a military coup, forcing him into exile. Amin then declared himself president and general, and a year later promoted himself to field marshal. Amin's victory over the authoritarian Obote regime was initially greeted with widespread support. However, that soon turned to hatred and fear when Amin began solidifying his absolute control over the nation. Within months after assuming office this large man (standing 6'4" and weighing 280 pounds) ordered the murder of over 5,000 members of the rival Acholi and Langi tribes which Obote and his supporters came from, beginning a reign of terror in Uganda from 1971 to 1979 in which at least 350,000 Ugandans were murdered by Amin and his secret police.
In 1972 Amin, angered over foreign residents' control of Ugandan commerce, ordered the expulsion of 55,000 Asian workers and businessmen and seized their businesses and assets for himself and his supporters. Amin also stole $1.5 billion in US and British foreign aid money and squandered it on military weapons, tripling the size of Uganda's army. In 1975 he declared himself president for life and embarked on a campaign to humiliate British nationals, climaxing in the summer of that year when he forced four Englishmen to carry him around in an Organization of African Unity rally in a sedan chair.
Amin received some international attention in June-July of 1976 when he allowed Palestinian and East German terrorists to use Entebbe airport as a base to hold a group of hostages from a hijacked Air France airliner from Israel. In a daring midnight raid on July 4, 1976, Israeli commandos freed the hostages. Although Amin claimed he was trying to negotiate the hostages' release, there was irrefutable evidence that he was indeed cooperating with and supporting the hijackers.
Although he converted to Islam, Amin was oppressive in his new religion and was a noted polygamist with at least five wives and 23 children. By 1977 Uganda's economy was in shambles with a failing infrastructure, and Amin began losing support almost everywhere. In an attempt to rally the Ugandan people for his support, Amin in the spring of 1978 ordered his army to invade neighboring Tanzania, occupying 400 square miles of the country, supposedly the beginning of his plan to conquer all of Africa for himself. After a slow start, a force of 6,000 Ugandan rebels-in-exile, aided by a slowly mobilized 50,000-strong Tanzanian army, launched a counter-offensive against Amin's 70,000-strong army in December 1978. Amin's forces, demoralized and unwilling to fight any longer for their leader, rapidly collapsed.
Although Col. Muammar Gaddafi of Libya sent troops and equipment to aid Amin's army, and the Palestine Liberation Organization sent some of its fighters, they were not sufficient to quell the popular uprising that ensued throughout Uganda and the approaching Tanzanian troops and Ugandan rebels. Amin's oppressive rule was brought to an end on April 11, 1979 when Tanzanian soldiers captured the Ugandan capital of Kampala, forcing Amin to flee into exile, taking most of his ill-gotten wealth and supporters with him. Amin first went to Libya and then to Saudi Arabia where he lived until his death in 2003. - Bhasker Patel was born on 7 February 1956 in Kampala, Uganda. He is an actor, known for Thunderbirds (2004), Anuvahood (2011) and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984).
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- Writer
Nabwana Isaac Godfrey Geoffrey (IGG) produces, directs, shoots, writes, and edits action films from his home in the slums of Wakaliga, Uganda.
A self-taught filmmaker, IGG's film education consists of one course in computer repair (he was forced to drop out after the first month due to lack of funds) and his own trial-and-error experiences with cameras and editing equipment. He began filmmaking at age 32, just after the birth of his first child.
While supporting himself and his family as a school teacher, IGG founded Ramon Film Productions (the name is derived from his grandmothers, Rachel and Monica, who raised him and saw the family safely thru Uganda's civil war). Based in the small home he shares with his wife and co-editor, Harriet, and their three children. RFP has produced over 44 feature films since 2005 (as of Jan 2015) and is best-known for Who Killed Captain Alex: Uganda First Action-packed Movie and Tebaatusasula. Trailers for IGG's work have gone viral, but the films themselves remain largely unseen outside the slums surrounding Kampala, Uganda.
IGG shoots his films in Luganda, the dialect of Buganda, Uganda's largest tribe. As is the common in the ghettos of Uganda, his films are presented with a live Video Jockey (VJ), best described as part-narrator, cheerleader, comedian, and slum tour guide.
"Wakaliwood" is a combination of Wakaliga, the slum IGG calls home, and Hollywood. Over the years, IGG has assembled a dedicated team of actors, technicians, prop masters, martial artists, and stunt people who have traveled from all parts of Uganda to be part of his action films. When not shooting, they meet twice a week to rehearse, develop new projects, build equipment out of scrap metal, and distribute DVDs in the local markets. Surprisingly, IGG Nabwana himself has never been to a movie theater.
Selected credits: Who Killed Captain Alex: Uganda's First Action-packed Movie; Bukunja Tekunja Mitti: The Cannibals; Rescue Team; The Return of Uncle Benon; and a lost film, Tebaatusasula. Upcoming projects include Captain Alex 2: The Tiger Mafia; Ugandan Ninja; Bad Black, inspired by the controversial life of the Ugandan socialite and ex-con; and Plan 9 From Uganda, a cannibal-zombie-action film.- Producer
- Actor
- Additional Crew
Jeremy Bolt was born on 25 October 1965 in Uganda. He is a producer and actor, known for Event Horizon (1997), Resident Evil (2002) and Death Race (2008). He has been married to Anoja Dias Bolt since 11 December 2010.- Actor
- Soundtrack
British Ugandan Born Actor Arnold Oceng hailing from Brixton south London UK has been acting since the tender age of 6 and has never looked back...child actor turned TV, film and music performer Arnold Oceng has become one of the growing number of talented young black Entertainers breaking into the mainstream he really is one to watch.- Writer
- Producer
Marcel Theroux was born on 13 June 1968 in Kampala, Uganda. He is a writer and producer, known for Churchill: The Hollywood Years (2004), The End of the World as We Know It (2005) and The Playboy Bunny Murder (2023). He is married to Hannah Griffiths. They have two children.- Producer
- Actor
- Writer
HemDee Kiwanuka was born on 31 August 1975 in Kampala, Uganda. He is a producer and actor, known for The Brothers Grimsby (2016), Army of One (2020) and Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003).- Elizabeth Anne Okino, also known as Betty Okino, was born in Uganda, Africa to a Romanian mother and a Ugandan father. She decided to become a gymnast after seeing Mary Lou Retton's performance in the 1984 Olympics.
Betty left home at very young age to follow her dream. Her grandmother demonstrated unrelenting support for Betty's talent. She learned how to drive at the age of 70 to transport Betty back and forth to the gym. Betty became one of the most elegant and skillful gymnast creating a move that bears her name, the "Okino", a triple pirouette on the beam. In 1992 the American team won the Bronze Medal and Betty, along with Dominique Dawes, made history by becoming became the first African American females to win Olympic gymnastics medals. After 12 years of gymnastics, Betty retired to pursue her other dream, acting.
Gymnastics gave Betty tenacity, perseverance and inner strength, launching her into the Hollywood Spotlight. Today, the Olympic Bronze medalist is lighting up the small screen and again winning the hearts of new fans, in such hit shows as The District (2000), starring opposite Craig T. Nelson, along with starring roles on Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996), the WB's Moesha (1996), Alive from Off Center (1984), MTV's Undressed (1999), and a series regular on the Disney Channel's original sports series, Z Games (1999), Cousin Skeeter (1998), The Oprah Winfrey Show (1986), Good Morning America (1975) and American Gladiators (1989).
Betty's most recent project is a lead in the feature film Creature Unknown (2004) (aka "Inhuman"), directed by Michael Burnett. Filming begins June 28, 2002. Betty takes on the role of "Coral", a beautiful African American feisty girl. Betty continues to demonstrate the same competitive spirit and talent that won her the Bronze Medal. - Lorna Ishema was born in 1989 in Ruba, Uganda. She is an actress, known for Ivie wie Ivie (2021), Paradise (2023) and Der Überfall (2022).
- Nikita Waligwa was born in 2004 in Uganda. She was an actress, known for Queen of Katwe (2016). She died on 15 February 2020 in Naalya, Kampala, Uganda.
- Elizabeth of Toro was born on 9 February 1936 in Kabarole District, Uganda. She is an actress, known for Sheena (1984) and Things Fall Apart (1971). She was previously married to Wilbur Nyabongo.
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- Music Department
Richard Sseruwagi also known as Richard Kaigoma Sseruwagi is a Swedish Ugandan actor and musician. Born in Matanga , Masaka Uganda but fled the country in 1977 during the rule of dictator Idi Amin who wanted him dead because of his political theatre engagements around the world. He got asylum in Sweden in 1978 and became a Swedish citizen. Richard Sseruwagi continued to work as an actor in his new country. His break through in Sweden was the drama series Tre Kronor (Three Crowns) which opened doors for his film carrier. He continues though to work in theatre when he is not filming. He is also a recording artist under the same name and his music can be listened to on Spotify and many other music streaming platforms.- Okumu Isaac Odwako, professionally known as Isaac Nymy, is a Ugandan internet entrepreneur and digital designer. He is the founder and CEO of Nymy Media, one of the leading online-based creative companies in East Africa, and the founder of Nymy Net, an online news and audio network.
Isaac is known for his exceptional skills in designing visual graphics and branding assets and has collaborated with many of Uganda's prominent music recording and organizational brands. His work has gained recognition in the industry, earning him high regard for his creative abilities.
Born on October 28, 2000, Isaac continues to push the boundaries of creativity in the digital landscape. - Director
- Writer
- Composer
Humrich, whose real name is Humphrey Mafabi, is a Ugandan music producer, songwriter, and entrepreneur. He was born in Kampala, Uganda. Humrich began his music career as an online music producer in Kampala, Uganda. He released his first single titled 'Sport', on Spotify in 2019 and later began releasing his music on other international platforms, including Deezer, Apple Music, iTunes, Amazon Music, Boomplay, JioSaavan, TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram. Humrich is best known for his singles 'Memories', 'Raising', 'Sunset', and 'The Most High' on Spotify and other music streaming platforms. In November 2020, Humrich collaborated with the musician Chistthug on a House/Techno track called 'Follow the Light'. After establishing a strong presence in the music! industry, he created a YouTube channel to share his music and provide tips, guidance, and support to fellow producers and artists seeking to make their way in the world of music.- Taru Devani was born on 22 April 1951 in Uganda. Taru is an actor, known for Tuesday (2023), Animal (2023) and Queer Parivaar (2022).
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Born in Kampala to Abdullah Mukwaya a Ugandan teacher and religious leader and Mariam Aziidah a beautician, Usama joined filming in 2010 with Mariam Ndagire Film and Performing Arts Center where he finished with his first film Hello (2011). A year later after finishing his networking diploma at Makerere University, he attended the 7th Maisha Film Lab founded by Mira Nair where he worked on his second short She Likes Prada (2012).- Director
- Actor
- Writer
Rodney Kefas Namisi, professionally known as Kefas Brand, is an Actor, Media Personality, Entreprenure and Influencer. A prominent figure in modern-day media, Kefas Brand is considered to be one of the most influential personalities in the Africa.
EARLY LIFE
Kefas Brand was born Rodney Kefas Namisi. He was raised up in a Christian family By His Parents Sir Samuel Kefa Namisi (Father) and Namisi Mariam (Mother), in a family of five. He is the second born, having three brothers and a sister (Princess Elizabeth Praise).
EDUCATION
Kefas studied at various schools. He is a university Graduate with a degree in Mass communication and Media Management.
He also Studied at New York Film Academy (2007-2009)
CAREER
In 2007 Kefas started Cinema and Drama classes. Just a year latter in 2008 he Casted for his first film
Kefas Brand's funny social media posts by 2014 via Facebook brought him the social media spotlight hence making friends with popular stars across the globe, those included musicians, actors, and comedians. Due to his funny personality everyone seemed to fall in love with him.
WHY ACTING?
"As a kid, I always loved watching a Nickelodeon TV show called 'Thundermans' in which Jack Griffo (Max Thundermans) was my favorite character and I always sought to myself that I would act some day and maybe get to feature him on a film project. Therefore I started impersonating Max since then with the passion I would someday start acting," Kefas says.
He also picks inspiration from several global Actors including Jack Griffor, Chris Hemsworth, Mark Wahlberg, and Hugh Jackman.
OTHER INTERESTS
Kefas has quite an amazing personal lifestyle. He loves sad music, football, and watching Crime and Detective series. His role models are, Cristiano Ronaldo, Pablo Escobar, his mother, Xxxtentacion, and President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni.
Kefas has a strong love and desire for politics and seems to have an ambitious political career interest. He says he would love to be a powerful influential leader someday.
RELATIONSHIP
He has been in a relationship with A one Katushabe Fridaus since February 2023
HEALTH
He neither drinks nor smokes.
He also has no body tattoos.
In 2016 he was involved in an accident and he had to go throw a brain surgery.
POLITICS
Kefas brand seems to have interest in politics but he'd rather not disclose anything at the moment.
RELIGION
He is a Christian by faith born and raised in a Christian Family.