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Chipo Chung (Chipo Tariro Chung) was born on 17 August, 1977 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, is a Zimbabwean actress. Discover Chipo Chung's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 46 years old?

Popular As Chipo Tariro Chung
Occupation Actress
Age 46 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 17 August, 1977
Birthday 17 August
Birthplace Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Nationality Tanzania

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1977

Chipo Tariro Chung (born 17 August 1977) is a Zimbabwean actress and activist based in London.

Chung was born as a refugee in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Her given name Chipo means "gift" in the Shona language.

She spent her first two years in refugee camps in Mozambique with thousands of young people who were escaping the war in then-Rhodesia.

Chung was raised in Harare where she attended Dominican Convent High School and developed her acting with the mixed-race theater company Over the Edge.

At eighteen, she moved to the United States where her mother, educationist and former minister of education in Zimbabwe Fay Chung, was working for the United Nations.

2003

Chung first studied directing at Yale University and then trained as an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London, graduating in 2003.

Chung’s stage debut was as Ophelia in a Nuffield Theatre production of Hamlet.

Appearances in The Mayor of Zalamea and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom at the Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse followed.

She then appeared in Talking to Terrorists (Royal Court Theatre), The Overwhelming (Royal National Theatre) and Fallujah (in which she played Condoleezza Rice), as well as classical plays including Phedre, which was the first National Theatre Live recording, and starred Helen Mirren.

She has appeared twice in Doctor Who, in one episode playing the Master's assistant Chantho in the series 3 episode Utopia, and a character called the Fortune Teller in series 4’s Turn Left.

Her first film credit was as the voice of Icarus II in Danny Boyle's Sunshine.

Other television appearances include the drama The Last Enemy and as a reporter in the Sherlock second series episode "The Hounds of Baskerville".

2011

In 2011 she had a recurring role in the medieval romance drama series Camelot as Vivian, an indentured servant at King Uther's court who then works as an attendant and messenger for Morgan Le Fay, played by Eva Green.

She appeared in the first season of Sky Atlantic series Fortitude as Trish Stoddart.

before winning the role of Mary Magdalene in the TV series, A.D. The Bible Continues.

2014

She was recognized as one of the BBC's 100 women of 2014.

2015

The show was hailed for its international and multiracial casting and opened to 11 million viewers in April 2015.

Chung then featured as the Master in AMC’s post-apocalyptic kung fu series Into the Badlands.

She was nominated for Best Actress at the Zimbabwe International Women’s Awards (ZIWA) in 2015 and honoured with a Special Recognition Award for her contribution to Media and the Arts at the Zimbabwe Achievers Awards in London in 2017.

Chung co-founded the charity SAFE-Kenya which develops theatre for social change in Kenya, focusing on HIV education and abandoning clitoridectomy.

She worked closely with the charity Peace Direct to start Envision Zimbabwe, a women's trust that works towards consensus-building and peace in Zimbabwe.

She also sits on the RADA Council and British Equity's International Committee for Artists' Freedom (ICAF).

2017

In 2017, Chung played Portia and Octavius in the Sheffield Theatre production of Julius Caesar, before taking on the title role of Dido, Queen of Carthage in the Royal Shakespeare Company's premiere production of Christopher Marlowe's tragedy.

Michael Billington wrote in the Guardian she ‘plays [Dido] with a volatility and sense of contradiction that anticipates Shakespeare’s Cleopatra’.

In 2021, Chung joined the cast of HBO/ BBC co-production His Dark Materials playing the angel Xaphania.

She features in a number of Apple TV+ series including Foundation and Silo.

In 2022, it was announced that she would be playing Eleanor Bennett in the Hulu series Black Cake, based on the best-selling novel by Charmaine Wilkerson.

The series is produced by Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Films and Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment.

Chung reads a number of titles on Audible, most notably Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo, which was a 2022 finalist for the Booker Prize, as well as books by Petina Gappah and Tsitsi Dangarembgwa.

2019

In December 2019, along with 42 other cultural figures, Chung signed a letter endorsing the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership in the 2019 general election.

The letter stated that "Labour's election manifesto under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership offers a transformative plan that prioritises the needs of people and the planet over private profit and the vested interests of a few."

2020

In 2020, Chung co-chaired British Equity’s Independent Commission on Race Equality, and in 2022 founded the British charity Partnership on Rape Aftercare (PORA), which supports the Adult Rape Clinic in Zimbabwe.