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28/05/2024

Casting News:
Coming up on Season 2 of Sibongile & The Dlaminis... Baby Cele, hot on the heels of her second exit from Uzalo after seven seasons on the show as Gabisile.


Baby plays Samkelisiwe on Sibongile, Bab’Ntombela’s sister, who turns up to cause trouble with her former friends Deliwe and Phetheni.

The three met as young women and connected over their shared experience of being scammed, but she got the short end of the stick in the friendship trio and now she wants...?

Baby's credits include roles on the e.tv soapie Backstage (her first starring role), the Mzansi Magic telenovelas Zabalaza and Ring of Lies, Isidingo, Shaka iLembe, My Perfect Family, Is'phindiselo and the Netflix coming-of-age mystery drama Blood & Water.

Season 2 of Sibongile & the Dlaminis premieres on Monday 29 July 2024 at 18h30.

28/05/2024

Baby Cele
Gender: Female

Bio
Baby Cele is a South African actress best known for her starring role as Katlego Rathebe on the e.tv soapie Backstage, a role she played for eight years.

She also played the role of Thandeka in the fourth season of the SABC1 drama series Home Affairs and has a starring role in the SABC1 sitcom My Perfect Family.

She also starred as spinster housekeeper Slindlile Dludlu in the Mzansi Magic telenovela Inkaba (2012-2013) and as Gasta Cele, a traditional yet modern wife who believes certain thing should be left up to the husband, doting on her children and community, in the Mzansi Magic soap opera Zabalaza, in 2013.

She has had various roles in TV and stage productions. In 1998, Baby received a Best Supporting Actress nomination for her role in Not With My Gun.

Later, she won a Vita Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for The Game and in 1996 she won an All Africa Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer for her role in Jump the Gun.

She was a cast member of the stage musical Sarafina!, performing on Braodway for two years and touring all of the American states. She also performed in the stage play Cards to rave reviews.

The first movie she remembers watching and loving was Scarface. Her favourite home-cooked meal is tripe, spinach and idombolo. She is inspired by people who take their jobs seriously and by looking at her child every day.

In 2011 she played the role of Beauty in the SABC1 mini-series Shreds & Dreams, based on the 2004 play of the same name directed by Clare Stopford.

Between 2013 and 2016 she played Gasta Cele on the Mzansi Magic soapie Zabalaza.

In 2016 she was cast in the role of Colonel Sibongile “Bongi” Nene on Isidingo, a character who was spoken about on the show for years but who was never previously seen. She debuted in the role on Wednesday, 10 August 2016.

Television Roles

Backstage - Season 1
Katlego Rathebe

Blood & Water - Season 1
Minister Dlamini

Blood & Water - Season 2
Minister Dlamini

Blood & Water - Season 3
Minister Dlamini

Blood & Water - Season 4
Minister Dlamini

Ga Re Dumele - Season 5
Apostle Eve

Home Affairs - Season 4
Thandeka

I Love South Africa - Season 2
Contestant - Herself

iNkaba - Season 1
Slindlile Dludlu

Intersexions - Season 1
Nurse Nonkululeko

Isidingo - Season 1
Colonel Sibongile "Bongi" Nene

Is'phindiselo - Season 1
Thabile

Is'phindiselo - Season 2
Thabile

It's for Life (2011) - Season 1
Sthe's Mom

Jozi Streets - Season 1
Thandi

Miseducation - Season 1
Brenda Hadebe

MTV Shuga - Season 8 (Down South 3)
Aunt Julia

My Perfect Family - Season 1
Portia Nkosi

My Perfect Family - Season 2
Portia Nkosi

Red Cake - Not the Cooking Show - Season 3
Celebrity Guest - Herself (as Baby Cele Maloka)

Ring of Lies - Season 1
Ruth

Ring of Lies - Season 2
Ruth

Saints and Sinners - Season 3
Celiwe

Shaka iLembe - Season 1
Queen Mabamba

Shreds and Dreams - Season 1
Beauty

Sokhulu & Partners - Season 2
MaNkunzi

Uzalo - Season 4
Gabisile (as Baby Cele Maloka)

Uzalo - Season 5
Gabisile (as Baby Cele Maloka)

Uzalo - Season 6
Gabisile (as Baby Cele Maloka)

Uzalo - Season 7
Gabisile (as Baby Cele Maloka)

Uzalo - Season 8
Gabisile (as Baby Cele Maloka)

Uzalo - Season 9
Gabisile (as Baby Cele Maloka)

Uzalo - Season 10
Gabisile (as Baby Cele Maloka)

Zabalaza (2013) - Season 1
Gasta Cele

Zabalaza (2013) - Season 2
Gasta Cele

Zabalaza (2013) - Season 3
Gasta Cele

Sibongile and The Dlaminis
Samkelisiwe

12/05/2024

Luyanda Zwane

Gender: Female
Age: 20

Biography

Luyanda Zwane is a South African actress best known for her starring role as the title character in the Mzansi Wethu telenovela Sibongile & The Dlaminis.

Born and raised in Durban, she matriculated from Kingsway High School, where she took part in school musicals and drama competitions, and studied drama as a subject.

She landed her first professional acting role when she landed the guest starring role of Lelo, a teenage girl, in an episode of the e.tv soapie Durban Gen (Season 2, Episode 141).

Luyanda next landed the recurring role of Nomonde Gumede, a beautiful teenage girl and a wolf in sheep's clothing who unlocks Pandora's box and wreaks havoc on those around her, in the BET telenovela Redemption.

She made her first appearance in the role in Season 1, Episode 94, which aired on 7 March, 2023.

In the same year she was cast in the role of Vundlazi on the Mzansi Magic drama series Shaka iLembe.

Luyanda landed her first starring role in television when she was cast as Sibongile Mbambo, an innocent young rural woman forced to leave her family and dreams behind to become a domestic worker in the lavish mansion of the affluent Dlamini family, in the Mzansi Wethu telenovela Sibongile & The Dlaminis.

The series - the first original telenovela to air on the channel - premiered on 31 July, 2023.


Television Roles

Durban Gen - Season 2 - Lelo

Miseducation - Season 1 - Aphiwe Ndima

Outlaws - Season 1 - Phumzile

Redemption - Season 1 - Nomonde

Shaka iLembe - Season 1 - Vundlazi

Sibongile & The Dlaminis - Season 1 - Sibongile

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