Skeem Saam actress, Marabe (23), explains how starting out on her children’s show shaped her acting career. Her mother helped her choose an acting career in acting. Her mother believe she was talented and encourage her to take part in the school play. At age of seven, she started to believe in her acting career.
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She got her first acting job on Takalani Sesame when she was 13. It was 2007 when her mother told her about the audition and she did her best. It was really challenging, more so because she had to speak and act in Sotho, Zulu, and Venda languages.
In 2011 she acted in the drama series called Jacob’s Cross. In 2012 she did Intersections and 90 Plein Street, and in 2014 she got a role on Isibaya. She has been acting in the weekday drama Series, Pretty Seakamela; a feisty fearless, and rebellious university student who wants to break out of her brother’s shadow.
She advises aspiring actresses to get training. She encouraged them to attend free acting workshops. It is important to get training so you are taught acting skills and how to embody characters, and tips on learning lines. This makes the acting career easier when you get into the industry.