Our #WCW is Natasha Dlamini,an actress, UNHCR advocate and the youngest member of women to women SA which is helping hundreds of women in countries affected by conflict and raising funds through effective and innovative partnerships and relationships and the ongoing need to invest in women and young people.
Natasha Dlamini, has featured on productions such as Netflix’s Queen Sono, DSTV’s Tangled and Veza The Movie.
Her initial career path was never to land in audition rooms casting for film and television roles. Natasha Dlamini grew up an academic child who wanted to pursue law as a first option. After finishing her Advanced Level, she applied for a scholarship to study law, which unfortunately never came her way. One day while perusing the newspaper, she came across an acting advertorial that required her to travel to Harare for the casting. She clearly remembers feeling at home when she was in the audition room, which then became the first day of meeting her true self.
Just like any other child, at the age of 5, Natasha wanted to be everything, from a doctor, nurse, waitress and lawyer. After school, she would go back home and play with her imaginary friends who took her into a world of possibilities, where everything and anything was possible. One would say her acting started at that early age as she got to play different roles and drifted into different worlds on a daily basis. She highlights that she would never change anything from her childhood as she strongly believes that it is that which fuelled her acting now, the ability to see things from a different point of view, embrace them and allow someone else to experience that through you.
“My fondest memories growing up are the little things really. The hugs from my mum every day before going to school and the affirmations from her made me a happy child. I also hold daily the love my parents pushed for my baby brother and I, we would literally walk to school holding hands. That feeling of being responsible for another human being was and is still priceless. Now that I am older, I would really like to thank my younger self for letting me escape myself to be anyone I wanted to be at that time. Thank you for being bold enough and for familiarising my spirit with what has become the biggest love of my life, “Acting”. I hope you are proud of who I am and whom I am yet to become”
Natasha famed for her role as Mary in the first Zimbabwe isiNdebele Sci-Fi The Signal.
