Chipo Chung
| Chipo Chung | |
|---|---|
| Born |
17 August 1977 Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
| Occupation | Actress, activist |
Chipo Tariro Chung (born August 17, 1977) is a Zimbabwean actress and activist based in London.
Chipo Chung was born as a refugee in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. She is of half Zimbabwean and half Chinese descent. 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.
Chipo was raised in Harare where she attended Dominican Convent High School and developed her acting with the mixed-race theatre company Over the Edge. At eighteen, she moved to the United States where her mother Fay Chung was working for the United Nations. She studied at Yale University and graduated cum laude with a double major in Theatre Studies and Fine Art.
Chipo trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London and graduated in 2003. Her repertoire includes political theatre: Talking to Terrorists (Royal Court Theatre), The Overwhelming (Royal National Theatre) and Fallujah (in which she played Condoleezza Rice), as well as classical plays such as Phedre, in which she performed with Helen Mirren (Royal National Theatre), and Epidavros.
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