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Lucian Msamati was born in the U.K. to Tanzanian parents. Msamati was raised and educated in Zimbabwe at Avondale Primary School, Prince Edward Secondary School and the University of Zimbabwe, where he pursued a B.A. in modern languages (French and Portuguese). He is a former National School’s Toastmasters Public Speaking Champion and a two-time Best Actor winner at the National Theatre Organisation School (NTO Zimbabwe).

In 1994 Msamati was a founding member of Zimbabwe’s acclaimed Over the Edge Theatre Company, the country’s first multiracial professional troupe. Between 1994 and 2002 they toured and performed to great acclaim in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Scotland, the U.K., Germany and the

U.S. In 2003 Msamati settled in the U.K., where over the last 20 years he has become one of the most critically acclaimed and respected actors of his generation. Between 2010 and 2014 he was artistic director of the acclaimed British-African theater company the Tiata Fahodzi: Africans in British Theatre.

Lucian Msamati is known for his critically acclaimed performance of Salieri in the Oliver Award-winning revival of “Amadeus” (2017 to 2018) at the National Theatre. He was the first black actor to play the role of Iago for The Royal Shakespeare Company production of “Othello” in 2015. His numerous other stage credits include “Pericles” (RSC), “Little Revolution,” “Ruined,” “I.D.” (Almeida Theatre), “Master Harold… and the Boys,” “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” “The Amen Corner,” “The Comedy of Errors,” “Death and the King’s Horseman,” “The Overwhelming,” “President of an Empty Room,” “Mourning Becomes Electra” (National Theatre), “Clybourne Park” (Royal Court / West End), “The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui” (Lyric Hammersmith), “1807 – The First Act” (Shakespeare’s Globe), “Walk Hard,” “Fabulation,” “Gem of the Ocean,” “Wolf in Snakeskin Shoes” ( Kiln-Tricycle Theatre), “Who Killed Mr Drum?” (Riverside) and “Twelfth Night.”

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