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Cassidy Nicholson – CPT

Cassidy Nicholson, also known online as, A GIRL NAMED CASSIDY, is a professional actress by trade, as well as a certified screenwriter, content creator, casting director and now stand-up comedian

Cassidy’s content focuses on comedic skits, social commentary and character creation through her acting as well as authentic living all while managing to incorporate her insanely funny sense of humour, giving the content, we think we’ve seen, a refreshing, new twist.

She became well-known on TikTok for playing a multitude of characters, Constantia Mom being one of them.

Cassidy has worked in the industry for over a decade, alongside the likes of many household names.

For bookings or more information on Cassidy, please get in contact with an agent at OSM Talent.

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Thato Dithebe

Thato Dithebe

Thato Dithebe is a South African actor best known for his role as Neo in the e.tv soapie House of Zwide. Hailing from Krugersdorp in Gauteng, he attended Maragon Private School before furthering his studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, in 2019.

He made his professional screen debut in 2016 when he was cast as a presenter on SABC1’s youth block YoTV, in the shows YoTV Land and YoTV Live. In 2020 he began hosting the Channel O lifestyle show GenZ, as President Thato.

Thato made his acting debut in a cameo role on the SABC2 sitcom Gauteng Maboneng in an episode that aired on 29 January,2017 (Season 3, Episode 12). He next had a guest starring role in an episode of the BET sitcom Black Tax which aired on 25 February, 2020 (Season 1, Episode 7). A guest starring role in the 1Magic drama series Unmarried followed, in Season 3, Episode 7 (which aired on 20 May, 2022).

The role of Neo in House of Zwide came next. Originally credited in a first season episode as “Alex’s Team Member” (Season 1, Episode 251), he began recurring from Season 2 onwards. In the show his character is a charismatic, confident charmer who takes a strong interest in Ona (Nefisa Mkhabela), despite the fact that she has a longtime boyfriend, Soka (Linda Nxumalo).

In the same year he had a guest starring role in an episode of the Mzansi Magic soapie The Queen (Season 7, Episode 37), which aired on 13 September, 2022.

Thato landed his first starring role in television when he was cast as Tshepang, an Amapiano star who leave home to find his fame and fortune, in the Mzansi Magic drama series Kokota and later joined One Magic’s telenovela “Champions”.

For bookings or more information on Thato, please get in contact with an agent at OSM Talent.

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Chris Fisher – CPT

Chris Fisher - CPT

Born in 1986, Chris has always had a love for imaginative play and immersive storytelling. After 4 years at the Rhodes University drama department, he moved back to Cape Town in 2010 to pursue a career in performance. He has since been stretching his repertoire across many fields including film, television, theatre, voice and ‘street performance’.

On screen credits include ‘Blue Crush 2’, ‘Saints and Strangers’, ‘Black Sails’, ‘Raised by Wolves’, ‘Deep State’, ‘Endangered Species’, ‘Monster Island’, ‘Tali’s Wedding Diaries’, ‘House of David’, ‘Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die’ and ‘The Morning After’ among many others..

Theatre credits include ‘Charlotte’s Web’, ‘Shakespeare the Sadist’, ‘Bent’, ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’, ‘Hamlet Machine’, ‘Stilted’, ‘Heathcliffe Goes Home’, ‘Experiment with an Airpump’ among others.

He has endeavoured to expand his range far and wide, while maintaining a solid grounding in expressive play – which he uses to inspire a love for keeping our childlike sense of play alive and well in the world. He has most recently immersed himself in the facilitation of joy sharing sessions through The Up Org.

Chris is impassioned by the notion of celebrating our gifts as human beings and the inherent interconnectedness of our universe to create WIN WIN WINS: for ourselves, for those around us and for this beautiful planet we all have the privilege of inhabiting.

Chris currently lives in Nature’s Valley on the Garden Route, South Africa with his life partner and 2 children.

For bookings or more information on Chris, please get in contact with an agent at OSM Talent.

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Thabang Mashiane

Thabang Mashiane is a trained actress with a BA in Live Performance which she obtained after a three-year course at Afda. Her training began in high school, at Curro Heuwelkruin, under the guidance of Nicole Senekal with the focus being in Stage Performance. She graduated high school with two prestigious awards in the creative arts, and an opportunity to perform at Woordfees 2017 through the National Arts Competition.

In the same year she started her training at AFDA: School of Creative Economy, with her major being Live Performance, throughout her studies at Afda she broadened her skills by co-writing scripts alongside Screenwriting and Directing students. She graduated with an award as Best Actor in Television 2019 and two film writer credits.

She has since continued to sharpen her acting skills while also assisting in different departments on film sets, in order to broaden her understanding of the process of filmmaking as well as starring in short films throughout the last few years.

Thabang is passionate about storytelling and the impact it has on the socio-economic climate of the world at large. She constantly working towards becoming a multi-faceted creative with strong sense of social awareness, keen skills in acting and screenwriting, and the ability to adapt to all mediums of performance with great ease, knowledge and skill.

For bookings or more information on Thabang, please get in contact with an agent at OSM Talent.

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Dineo Nchabeleng

Dineo Nchabeleng

Dineo Nchabeleng was born in Pretoria and spent most of her childhood in the Eastrand, where she completed her nursery and primary schooling. She later completed her high schooling at the National School of Arts, majoring in classical music. Her career began at the young age of 7, making her among the few budding child stars in SA at the time.

Dineo Nchabeleng kick started her career with international feature films My Brother The Egg & Beat The Drum (won over 20 international film awards). She then went on to presenting on Sabc 1’s yo.tv : Blue Couch and Sabc 2’s School Tv.

After a few years of working her way up, she made it onto South Africa’s biggest soapie (at the time) Generations. Dineo Nchabeleng quickly became a ‘house hold favorite’ and after 4 years on the soapie she ventured onto new things. End Game (sabc 1 political thriller series), Dream World S2 (SABC 1 rom com), Thandeka’s Diary (SABC 1 comedy), Family Secrets (SABC 1 drama) and Soul City are amongst the shows she later went on to be a part of on the SABC show roll.

From budding child star to lead role on award winning Ring Of Lies (Mzansi Magic telenovela S1 & S2) and #FeesMustFall activist character on another award winning show Lockdown (Mzansi Magic series S3). The Magic In Motion academy produced a popular movie called ‘Sofa Silahlane’ where Dineo Nchabeleng and fellow ‘Ring of Lies’ co-star Bohang Moeko, tell a tragic love story with the pair as leads and veteran actors like Seputla Sebogodi amongst them.

She also played a character on Etv’s Gold Diggers (S2) alongside the likes of Owen Sejake and Clementine Mosimane.

Dineo Nchabeleng has had a consistent career in prime time television and continues to entertain viewers all while being a mother to her daughter. She is currently 31 years old and recently featured on EVOD SA original action feature film ‘Whatever It Takes’ as lead, which has won a SAFTA 2023 in the category: Best Made For TV Movie. She was also recently featured in two Mzansi Original Movies: Mjolo Ke Pandemic and UmshadoWethu. Behind the camera, Dineo is a creative and working to make a name in the production side of the industry.

For bookings or more information on Dineo, please get in contact with an agent at OSM Talent.

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Nirvana Nokwe-Mseleku

Nirvana Nokwe-Mseleku

Nirvana Nokwe-Mseleku, better known as Nirvana Nokwe, is a performance artist of varied disciplines. The star is trained singer, actor, music producer, model, and filmmaker. Having had a commercial background in print, advertising, film, as well as a heavy handed experience in broadcasting, performance art and music, her aims are to create an audio-visual experience, through her brand, encompassing beauty, high art, fashion and performance. Nirvana’s storytelling is intimate, truthful and, quite literally, out of this world with her ethereal sounds and deep passions for astrology.

Her personal brand encapsulates the modern day intellectualised dreamer, reflecting on the complexities of life and her place in the world. While she is Johannesburg born, she identifies more with her years in KwaMashu and Lamtonville, Durban. Her family is rooted in the arts, making it possible for Nirvana to have participated in the entertainment industry at 4-years-old as a professional. By the age of 10, Nirvana understood what she was doing in entertainment and concluded that she wanted to continue pursuing a career in the arts.

Through Amajika Youth and Children Arts, a school founded by mother and grandparents Tu, Patty and Alfred Nokwe, Nirvana participated in the Umoja Cultural Flying Carpet and more recently the Los Spirido Del Pianetta festival in Italy. At the Arts and Culture Festivals, Nirvana competed as part of the Zulu tribe delegation to represent the Zulu heritage. These cultural exchange experiences have influenced Nirvana’s creative direction towards her solo projects.Since her start in the industry, Nirvana contributed to music for advertisements, in addition to background music for films, and has participated in voice over work. Marilyn Nokwe, former member of Mango Groove, mentored and introduced Nirvana to the world of commercial and cinematic audio production. Nirvana’s vocal contributions can be found in productions alongside South African musicians like the late great Hugh Masekela, Shaluza Max, and Busi Mhlongo.

As a solo artist, she began her career on SoundCloud with the release of The Travel Playlist. Her debut EP, Cosmic Bae Trilogy III saw her flex her writing chops with subject matters that sought the intersection of astrology and love. In addition, it was her first foray into producing herself. Nirvana’s musical subject composition draws on the cultures she encountered during her time overseas at arts and culture festivals. However it is her relationship with her father that has informed much of her melancholy subject material. Due to his battle with stage 2 Bipolar Disorder, Bheki Mseleku, renowned UK based South African jazz musician, was absent for a large part of Nirvana’s life. His absence has influenced her understanding of love and her interpersonal relationships, as best seen in songs like Medusa and Waiting. Granted, melancholy is not to be inferred from her production, as she often juxtaposes her written subject material with uptempo compositions, such as her house collaboration with DJ Tefo for Emaweni, and features on Okmalumkoolkat’s 2022 release Ushukela ETiyeni album as well as Kid X’s Father of Zen. She has recently graced stages such as #RoadToAfrochella, among acclaimed artists such as Focalistic, Daliwonga, Gyackie and Young Stunna, an activation of world renowned annual Music Festival Afrochella happening in Ghana.

In addition to singing and writing her music, she produces most of her music, a legacy of her time at the Academy of Sound Engineering. Most notably, her participation in 5FM’s 5Live online-streamed performance of Desmond and the Tutus. Her responsibilities included rigging the multi camera setup as well as the live vision mixing of the performance. She’s gone on to fulfil similar roles for the Thabo Mbeki Foundation, The Gender Mainstreaming Awards, and more. As an actress, she’s acted on the Netflix production Justice Served, BBC Family production of Quarx. Showmax’s short film, Pretty’s Daughter, and scored roles on shows like Generations The Legacy and Ngempela. Throughout her career, Nirvana Nokwe has committed to telling stories and translating them through audio-visual mediums. It is for this reason that events like One Night In Nirvana, a collaborative concert experience with Curiocity, became a milestone for her in 2019. Emphasising the importance of experiencing euphoria through music by engaging all sensory points, Nirvana hosted and produced the show in Maboneng as to cultivate a personal and intimate relationship with people who enjoyed her music. In conjunction with creating a her country’s first Models Guild, she plans to utilise the NFT space, to create formidable ecosystems and platforms for the advocacy of the evolution of model rights and presence.

Nirvana Nokwe-Mseleku stars as leading lady Sihle Biyela in her break out role on the internationally acclaimed Showmax Original ‘Outlaws’. as well as the rivetting crime thriller ‘‘Red Ink’ as BusiMhlongo. Nirvana is also started as A$AP Rocky’s mother in the groundbreaking music video ‘GANGSTA’ by the Free Nationals, A$AP Rocky & Anderson Paak.

For bookings or more information on Nirvana, please get in contact with an agent at OSM Talent.

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Emmanuel Castis

Emmanuel Castis

Emmanuel Castis is a seasoned professional in the entertainment  industry. Emmanuel has performed across the globe in various productions and across various mediums.

Emmanuel is a SAFTA AWARD Winning actor, who became a household name playing Steve Stethakis on the popular Soap opera Isidingo.

Since then he has performed in various television shows and films, in South Africa, The United States, the UK and Norway, a few of which were on Etv’s Scandal and Broken Vows, SABC’s Erfsondes and 7de Laan, ABC’s General Hospital and NBC’s Days of Our Lives,  HBO Cinemax’s Warrior and  MNET’s Trackers.

Emmanuel has also performed in the global touring company of the Broadway hit, Jersey Boys. He was part of the developmental cast of the Broadway Musical Mandela, which has just done a season off the West End in London. He is currenlty playing Sam Carmichael, in the hit Musical Mamma Mia.

He is also a singer- songwriter, having released an Album, South of Nowhere.  He has performed at events across the  globe with his  band Dalliance, and as a guest artist in the US band, Vanity Fair.

For bookings or more information on Emmanuel, please get in contact with an agent at OSM Talent.

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Alexander Maniatis – CPT

Alexander Maniatis - CPT

Born on 27 December 1985 in Pretoria, South Africa, Alexander studied drama at the Pretoria Arts Campus; Tshwane University of Technology. He is known for his role as the devious villain; the captain of The Black Cat Pirates; Captain Kuro, also known as, Klahadore in the critically acclaimed Netflix live action adaptation of ONE PIECE (2023).

His career as an actor kicked off in 2016 and since then has covered a wide range of genres where he portrays diverse roles; drama (Love, Lies and Hybrids etc), comedy (Asseblief en Dankie etc) and action (ICE -Season 2 etc). Maniatis also works as a voice artist and a musician (vocals, piano and guitar).

For bookings or more information on Alexander, please get in contact with an agent at OSM Talent.

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Dippy Padi

Dippy Padi

Dippy Padi is a dynamic force in the entertainment industry with a multifaceted career spanning; acting, singing, voice over and presenting, Dippy captivates audiences with her undeniable talent and magnetic presence.

Recognized for her compelling performances, Dippy has left an indelible mark on screen with her recurring roles in hit TV shows such as Adulting on Showmax, Soon Comes Night, and How To Ruin Christmas on Netflix, solidifying her status as a sought-after actress in the industry.

Beyond her acting prowess, Dippy has seamlessly transitioned into the world of music, collaborating with esteemed artists and even hosting her own music television show, showcasing her versatility and passion for the arts.

Dippy's journey to success is underlined by her dedication to her craft and extensive training. A graduate of the National School of the Arts and AFDA, where she specialized in Live Performance, Dippy has honed her skills to perfection, earning acclaim for her performances on stage and screen alike.

Her versatility extends beyond the camera, as Dippy is also celebrated for her exceptional talent as a voice-over artist. From bringing beloved characters to life, such as Zoe in Takalani Sesame, to lending her captivating voice as the ADR narrator for Netflix's Blood and Water Season 3 & 4, Dippy's vocal range and emotive delivery captivate audiences.

Dippy Padi continues to inspire and captivate with her unparalleled talent by leaving an enduring mark on the entertainment landscape with every performance, as she continues to explore new avenues and push creative boundaries, Dippy remains a shining beacon of excellence in the entertainment industry.

For bookings or more information on Dippy, please get in contact with an agent at OSM Talent.

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Othembele Nomgca

Othembele Nomgca was born in a small town called Flagstaff in the Eastern Cape. His family relocated to Kokstad where he was introduced to sports like rugby and opera whilst he completed his schooling and went on to Durban University of Technology to study Drama and Production Studies. He completed his diploma in 2020.

Whilst studying acting Othembele got the opportunity to be involved in shows at The Courtyard Theatre, the most notable being the Zulu Production of Usiza and Iwisa at the Johannesburg Pop Art Theatre.

Othembele received his first on camera role as Bongz on Uzalo and most recently can be seen in Mzansi Magic’s - 1802” Love Defies Time.

Othembele’s talents also extend to being the camera as a director as well as a content creator.

For bookings or more information on Othembele, please get in contact with an agent at OSM Talent.

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