Kevin Mambo Background, Early Life, Career, Filmography and Awards

Kevin Mambo

Kevin Mambo is a Zimbabwean born Canadian based actor, musician and disc jockey who is well known for his leading role in Guiding Light starring as Marcus Williams, which would win him two Daytime Emmy Awards in 1996 and 1997. He also played Fela Kuti in the hit Broadway show “Fela!” in New York City.

Kevin Mambo Background

Kevin Mambo was born on 29 June 1972 to Anna Tsitsi Mambo (nee Chipwaya) and Nobby Mambo in Harare, Zimbabwe before he would move with his parents to Saskatoon, western Canada. His mother was a registered nurse and mid-wife, while his father was a pathologist. He spent most of his early childhood in Saskatoon, western Canada while he attended university in California, United States of America. His parents would divorce when he was 12 years old and he’d view this as a relief from the arguing.

Kevin Mambo Early life

Kevin Mambo was born in Harare, Zimbabwe, and raised in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. An avid musician, he was in the church choir as a child and started playing piano at age 8, saxophone at age 10, and the guitar at age 19. He attended Aden Bowman Collegiate in Saskatoon and then Brentwood College School in Mill Bay, British Columbia. He studied Political Science and African History at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec where he also took classes at the McGill Jazz Conservatory. Kevin then transferred to the University of Southern California where he earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.

Kevin Mambo Career

In 2015, Mambo appeared in the Billie Holiday Theatre production of Jackie Alexander’s Brothers from the Bottom opposite Wendell Pierce. In 2014, Mambo starred as Barret Rude Jr. in the musical The Fortress of Solitude which premiered at the Dallas Theater Center and at The Public Theater in New York. The musical is based on Jonathan Lethem’s, The Fortress of Solitude.

Kevin Mambo

Mambo has also appeared in The Book of Mormon as Mafala during the first National Tour (2012-2013) and as Chancellor in Danai Gurira’s The Convert (directed by Emily Mann) in 2011-2012. He played Fela Anikulapo-Kuti in the Broadway production of the musical Fela! at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre and appeared off-Broadway in Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Ruined at the Manhattan Theatre Club and at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Hoodoo Love at the Cherry Lane Theatre, Once Around the Sun at the Zipper Factory Theater and Fela Is a Weapon at the Shrine Theater.

Film and television credits include Cadillac Records, Nina, Mistresses; Guiding Light (two-time Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actor in a Drama Series), One Life to Live, Soul Food, Any Day Now, Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Deadline, Law & Order: Trial by Jury, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Spin City Family Matters, Freshman Dorm; The Firing Squad and One of Us Tripped.

Filmography

1. Happyish (TV Series)
2. The Southside
3. Nina
4. Mistresses (TV Series)
5. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)
6. Trooper
7. Great Performances (TV Series)
8. Cadillac Records
9. Law & Order (TV Series)
10. Law & Order: Criminal Intent (TV Series)
11. Law & Order: Trial by Jury (TV Series)
12. Law & Order: Criminal Intent (Video Game)
13. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Video Game)
14. Deadline (TV Series)
15. Soul Food (TV Series)
16. Spin City (TV Series)
17. The Firing Squad
18. Any Day Now (TV Series)
19. Guiding Light (TV Series)
20. One of Us Tripped
21. Family Matters (TV Series)
22. Freshman Dorm (TV Series)
23. One Life to Live (TV Series) [2]

Awards

Daytime Emmy: Outstanding Younger Actor in a Drama Series 1997 for The Guiding Light
Daytime Emmy: Outstanding Younger Actor in a Drama Series 1996 for The Guiding Light