Since Kenya is the home of inventive entertainers and actors, most Kenyan entertainers have graced the huge screens with their content and have also made it in Hollywood movies.
Here are some of the Kenyan entertainers who have been featured in Hollywood films.
Lupita Nyong’o was born in Mexico and raised in Kenya, where her dad filled in as a government minister and a senator. He is the current governor of Kisumu.
She went to Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts. While still a student, she filled in a production assistant and an intern on several movies. She has acted in East River (2008), Shuga (2009-2012), 12 years a slave (2013). Lupita has also acted the Star Wars sequel trilogy (2015-2019), Black Panther (2018), Us (2019).
Edi Mue Gathenge is a Kenyan-American entertainer, born on the tenth of March, 1979. Edi was born in Nairobi, Kenya and grew up in Albany, California.
He featured in the TV series House as Dr. Jeffrey Cole, as Laurent in Twilight Saga: New Moon, as Darwin in X-Men: First Class. Moreover, he featured up as Matias Solomon in The Blacklist and as Cheese Gone Baby Gone. He also featured in Into the Badlands as Baron Jacobee.
Kenyan Actors and Actresses
Raymond Ofula is a seasoned Kenyan entertainer who has been in the entertainment world for years. He has featured in both local and international movies.
Raymond has mad appearances in films such as To Walk With Lions (1999), The Cradle Of Life (2003), The White Masai (2005), Winterreise (2006), The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (2019) and Queen Sono. He also acted in Makutano Junction (2007) and Mali (2011-2015).
Mary Oyaya hails from Mombasa. She is a Kenyan model who has lived in Sweden, Canada, and Australia. She is on this list of Kenyan actors and actress in Hollywood, considering that she featured in two Star Wars films playing the character of Jedi Master Luminara.
Charles Gitonga Maina was born in Buru, Nairobi in 1976. He played the role of Saleh, a b-ball player who guids his group to win, in the movie The Air Up There (1994).Charles natural talent in doing basketball stunts got him the role of Saleh.
