Nzinga Blake

Nzinga Blake
Born	1981 Sierra Leone, Africa
Occupation	Actress

Nzinga Blake (born 1981) is an American / Sierra Leonean actress, writer and currently the host of Culture Click, which appears on Saturday mornings on most ABC stations. Blake was a host on Current TV and starred on the TV series Fridays on Cartoon Network, as well as in national television commercials for Sprite and Kinkos. Her father, Cecil Blake, is the former Minister of Information in Sierra Leone.^[1]

Life and career

Nzinga has done a couple of television series including a recurring role on Showtime series Barbershop, which only lasted one season. She played the role of Vivian. She also had a recurring role on What About Brian, where she played Brian's receptionist Rona. While at Current she also did a lot of voice overs for the animation SuperNews!, where she did various characters, but mostly known for doing the voice for Condoleezza Rice.

Recently she was listed in the credits under "Special Thanks" for the E! True Hollywood Story on Tropic Thunder.

In 2009 she began hosting for BET and is the LA Entertainment correspondent for a talk show on Australia's Network 10 entitled the 7pm Project.

Blake was named after Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba, a 17th century Queen and folk heroine of the Mbundu people of southwestern Africa. She is a 1999 graduate of Munster High School in Indiana, and a 2003 graduate of UCLA as a Film & Television Major.

On an episode of Google Current she suggested (jokingly) "maybe people could update my page and say that I'll be starring opposite Brad Pitt and Johnny Depp in their next big movie".^[2]

As mentioned in one of the ads for Fridays, she is fluent in speaking Japanese, although she claims to speak some. Later on in said ad, she mentions the block title, start date, and network in Japanese.^{[citation needed]}

She was a host on Current TV.

Blake is now host of "Culture Click", an educational and informative TV show using virtual reality to cover current events, societal issues and pop culture,^[3][4] which made its debut on September 3, 2011.^[5]

References

1. ^ "SIERRA LEONEAN GIRL BREAKS NEW GROUND FOR AFRICA IN U.S.". sierravisions.org. http://www.sierravisions.org/NewsSpecial.php. Retrieved March 20, 2011. 
2. ^ http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4329608787945313124#0h2m39s
3. ^ Interview with Nzinga Blake at ITV Fest
4. ^ http://www.littonweekendadventure.com
5. ^ Culture Click TV Show holds launch party. September 5, 2011

External links

• Nzinga Blake on Myspace
• Nzinga Blake at the Internet Movie Database

Persondata
Name	Blake, Nzinga
Alternative names
Short description	Talk Show Host
Date of birth	1981
Place of birth	Sierra Leone, Africa
Date of death
Place of death