Chi Mhende (born 19 October 1991) whose full name is Chiedza Mhende is a Zimbabwean-born South African actress, singer and voice artist known for her starring role as Wandile on the SABC1 soapie Generations: The Legacy.
Chi Mhende Age
She was born on the 19th of October 1991 in Harare, Zimbabwe. As of 2023, she is 32 years old and celebrates her birthday on October 19th every year.
Career
Chi Mhende played the sole female character, Mmabatho, in plays like K. Sello Duiker’s The Quiet Violence of Dreams.
She has also performed in various theatrical plays such as Volpone, Aladdin, Private Lives, Armageddon, Romeo & Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew, another Roy Sargeant play, this time at the Maynardville Open Air Theatre in Cape Town, and the character of Emilia in Mary Dreyer’s Othello.
She has also performed in Lara Bye’s productions of The Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Richard III.
In addition to the SABC1 sitcom Stokvel, the Sky 1 black comedy Mad Dogs, the Showtime drama Homeland, the CBeebies children’s adventure series Jamillah and Aladdin, and Syfy’s post-apocalyptic supernatural action series Dominion, Chi has appeared as a guest star on other television programs.
She also narrated the children’s nature documentary series Siyaya: Come Wild with Us, the Al Jazeera health series Lifelines, and the miniseries Bridging Waters, a docudrama that examines the lives of those who live along Southern Africa’s rivers.
Chi Mhende appeared in the comedy-drama Love the One You Love (2014) directed by Jenna Cato Bass. The movie, which is set in Cape Town, centers on a sex-line operator, a dog trainer, and a computer technician who start to wonder if strange conspiracies are at work in their love relationships. For her performance as Terri in the movie, she took up the Best Actress prize at the 2014 Durban Film Festival.
Additionally, she has appeared in a number of short films, such as The Tunnel, Scribblings, and Lazy Susan. She also as a receptionist in Christopher Smith’s independent film Detour, about a young law student who must choose between killing his adulterous stepfather and grieving for his dying mother.
She made her television debut on the SABC1 soap opera Generations: The Legacy in mid-December 2015 as Wandile “Wandi” Radebe, Zola’s kid, in a mystery gender plot. It was her first television leading role.
Chi Mhende Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $200,000 which she has earned as an actress.
