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Chipo Chung
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.
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.
Chung 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 (2007). Other television appearances include in 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 le Fay, played by Eva Green. Chung 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. 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.
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Chipo Chung
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.
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.
Chung 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 (2007). Other television appearances include in 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 le Fay, played by Eva Green. Chung 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. 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.