Who is presley chweneyagae

Presley Chweneyagae is 37 years old as of and celebrates his birthday on October 19th every year. Her name is Agnes Keagile and she gave him the name Presley after her favourite musician, Elvis Presley. He has three siblings. He attended a drama school owned by Mpumelelo Paul Grootboom, a stage director and playwriter. Although he had acted before in plays and community theatre projects, Tsotsi was his first feature film.

Hope ya'll are having a Massive sober weekend since Bev is closed with immediateeffect… Or you got connections? Watch the video. Sign In. Presley Chweneyagae Actor Director Producer. Up 59, this week. View rank on IMDbPro ». See full bio ». Born: in Soweto, Transvaal, South Africa. Filmography by Job Trailers and Videos. Share this page:. Around The Web Provided by Taboola. Despite what seems to be a perfect marriage,. Recently Presley was arrested for beating up his wife, Presley Chweneyagae who plays the role of Cobra Mokoena on The River was allegedly arrested for assaulting his wife at the beginning of this month.

According to reports by the Daily Sun, the incident happened on September 5 where he and his wife had an altercation which saw him detained at the Pretoria North police station on common assault charges. Chweneyagae said he and his wife had an argument about his car after she refused to give him the car keys as he had to attend to a work commitment. He made it clear that he is not a violent man and that it was the first incident to happen between the couple. Presley is mostly active on Twitter, and he posts about his work and that of the Presley Chweneyagae Foundation.

He is also present on Instagram and has a huge following of 80k followers. Hope ya'll are having a Massive sober weekend since Bev is closed with immediateeffect… Or you got connections?

Pure entertainment every weekday on TheRiver1magic 20h00 dstv cobrizi. A post shared by presley chweneyagae presleychweneyagae on Jul 18, at am PDT. As a way of giving back to the community, the Tsotsi superstar formed the Presley foundation. It is aimed at helping the poor communities in South Africa using the performing arts. No information is available about his father. From a very young age, Presley Chweneyagae developed an interest in acting. It was this passion that drove him to attend drama school owned by Mpumelelo Paul Grootboom.

But before then, he was already acting in church dramas, and his mother had also previously enrolled him in acting class. As a teenager, he was already acting in theater roles before finally landing his breakthrough acting role as a lead character in the movie Tsotsi.

With all his smaller acting roles and what he learned from acting school, he was totally ready to take up the role, and to prove this, he delivered absolutely well that he even landed an Oscar award. His outstanding performance earned him international recognition. Since his breakthrough movie, he has been featured in movies like Menda , Zama Zama , and Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom Presley Chweneyagae has been nominated for many awards for his epic performance in movies, some within South African and others on the global scene.

Here is a list of the awards he was nominated for and those he won:. After winning the Oscar award in , Presley Chweneyagae had the opportunity to move to Los Angeles with his family. However, he decided that it was wiser to remain in South Africa with his family instead of rushing off to LA, where he was unsure of what opportunities await him there.

Despite his first decision to remain in South Africa instead of moving to LA, he still works with international TV producers.