Chipo Chung Biography
Chipo Tariro Chung is a Zimbabwean actress and activist based in London.
How old is Chipo Chung? – Age
She is 46 years old as of August 2023. The actress was born on August 17, 1977, in Dar es Salam, Tanzania.
Chipo Chung Height
The activist stands at a height of 5 feet 8 inches tall.
Chipo Chung Early Life
Chipo was born as a refugee in Dar es Salam, Tanzania. 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 Harae 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.
She 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.
Chipo Chung Career
Her stage debut was a 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 and Fallujah, 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”. 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 Ie Fay, played by Eva Green.
Chipo then featured as the Master in AMC’s post-apocalyptic kung fu series Into the Badlands. 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. 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 Hapo Films and Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment. She was recognized as one of the BBC’s 100 women of 2014. She was nominated for Best Actress at the Zimbabwe International Women’s Awards (ZIWA) in 2015 and honored with a Special Recognition Award for her contribution to Media and the Arts at the Zimbabwe Achievers Awards in London in 2017.
Chipo Chung Movie
2005 – Proof
2007 – Sunshine
2009 – In the loop
2011 – 360
2012 – Labalaba, He’ll Return
2013 – Red Zone
2014 – Beyond Plain Sight
2018 – Thomas & Friends: Big World Big Adventures!
Chipo Chung TV Shows
2003 – Absolute Power
2007 – Dalziel and Pascoe
2007 – Holby City
2010 – Identity
2011 – Camelot
2012 – Sherlock
2015 – Fortitude
2016 – Thirteen
2021 – Foundation
2022 – His Dark Materials
2023 – Silo
2023 – Black Cake
