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Nini Wacera

  • Actress
  • Casting Department
  • Casting Director
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When an invasive mining company threatens the existence of her village, a city girl caught between two worlds must return home, overcome her painful past to save the village and find herself in the process.
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Pour l'or de Tsilanga (2022– )
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Nini Wacera is an Actress, Casting Director and Actors Coach She has been a professional actress since 2001. Nini begun her career at the Phoenix Players under the tutelage of James Falkland. She is notable for her role in 2003-2006 Soap Opera 'Wingu La Moto". Where she played the main protagonist 'Susan'. Her most recent performance is in the film Rafiki by Wanuri Kahiu where she played 'Mercy' and in Sense8 where she played 'Justice' a political activist.

Besides her acting, Nini is an accomplished Radio Show Host, having held the highest rated Late Night Capital show on 98.4 Capital Fm for 7 years.

She played leading lady 'Dinka" in 'The Game Plan', a BBC Radio Drama. She hosted Television talk shows: 'Dad's Can Cook' and 'Destination Kenya' as well as co- hosted 'The Spread Podcast' with Kaz.

Nini is widely known as a Casting Director and Actor's Coach. She is the Casting Director responsible for Rafiki, Sense8 Nairobi Casting, Changes 2, Something Necessary and Lusala

Nini now establishes indigenous forests and woodlots and has planted 5,000 trees since 2015. She runs Miti Yetu, a land restoration project management company that specializes in indigenous trees and food forests.
BornJanuary 16, 1978
BornJanuary 16, 1978
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    Bae Doona, Max Riemelt, Brian J. Smith, Miguel Ángel Silvestre, Tuppence Middleton, Tina Desai, Jamie Clayton, and Toby Onwumere in Sense8 (2015)
    Sense8
    8.2
    TV Series
    • Justice Abdu
    Dangerous Affair
    • Kui(as Nini Wacera Gatere)
    • 2002
    Rafiki (2018)
    Rafiki
    6.8
    • Mercy
    • 2018
    Nairobi Half Life (2012)
    Nairobi Half Life
    7.3
    • Woman Robbed on the Street
    • 2012

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    Actress



    • Chaguo (2022)
      Chaguo
      4.9
      • Radio Moderator
      • 2022
    • Pour l'or de Tsilanga (2022)
      Pour l'or de Tsilanga
      5.1
      TV Series
      • Vivienne
      • 2022
    • Bae Doona, Max Riemelt, Brian J. Smith, Miguel Ángel Silvestre, Tuppence Middleton, Tina Desai, Jamie Clayton, and Toby Onwumere in Sense8 (2015)
      Sense8
      8.2
      TV Series
      • Justice Abdu
      • 2017–2018
    • Rafiki (2018)
      Rafiki
      6.8
      • Mercy
      • 2018
    • Chichi Seii, Mugambi Nthiga, and Jason Corder in Oh-Bama (2016)
      Oh-Bama
      TV Series
      • Achieng
      • 2016
    • Desperate Housewives Africa (2015)
      Desperate Housewives Africa
      8.2
      TV Series
      • Ese De Souza
      • 2015
    • Kona (2013)
      Kona
      9.0
      TV Series
      • Julia Oyange
      • 2013
    • Something Necessary (2013)
      Something Necessary
      7.0
      • Grace
      • 2013
    • Nairobi Half Life (2012)
      Nairobi Half Life
      7.3
      • Woman Robbed on the Street
      • 2012
    • Nairobi Law (2009)
      Nairobi Law
      TV Series
      • 2009–2013
    • Life in D Major
      Short
      • Nathan's First Girlfriend
      • 2008
    • Broken Monologues
      Short
      • 2005
    • Nina Hoss and Jacky Ido in Die weiße Massai (2005)
      Die weiße Massai
      6.4
      • Lesbian Girl in bar
      • 2005
    • Project Daddy
      • Rosy
      • 2004
    • Dangerous Affair
      • Kui (as Nini Wacera Gatere)
      • 2002

    Casting Department



    • Lusala (2019)
      Lusala
      6.9
      • casting supervisor
      • 2019
    • Bae Doona, Max Riemelt, Brian J. Smith, Miguel Ángel Silvestre, Tuppence Middleton, Tina Desai, Jamie Clayton, and Toby Onwumere in Sense8 (2015)
      Sense8
      8.2
      TV Series
      • casting
      • 2015–2017

    Casting Director



    • Zo In-sung, Kim Yoon-seok, Kim So-jin, and Park Kyung-hye in Escape from Mogadishu (2021)
      Escape from Mogadishu
      7.0
      • Casting Director (casting)
      • 2021
    • Lusala (2019)
      Lusala
      6.9
      • original casting director
      • 2019
    • Rafiki (2018)
      Rafiki
      6.8
      • original casting director
      • 2018
    • Chichi Seii, Mugambi Nthiga, and Jason Corder in Oh-Bama (2016)
      Oh-Bama
      TV Series
      • Casting Director
      • 2016–2017
    • Something Necessary (2013)
      Something Necessary
      7.0
      • original casting director
      • 2013

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    • Alternative name
      • Nini Wacera Gatere
    • Height
      • 1.73 m
    • Born
      • January 16, 1978
      • Nairobi, Kenya

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