Radio & Television Academy Awards (RTVAA) Uganda, 2013
Career
Show
Mid-Morning Magazine
Station
Radiocity 97FM
Time slot
10am – 3pm
Style
Music, celebrity gossip, news, film
Country
Uganda
Cleopatra Koheirwe is a Ugandan actress, writer, singer, and media personality. She has garnered numerous roles on different film and television projects locally and internationally.[1][2][3]
In 2001, she joined a popular music, dance and drama group known as Obsessions[9] (now Obsessions Africa) until March 2007 when she resigned from the group to pursue other interests.[10]
In 2010, she started working on her solo singing career. Her first single titled Ngamba (Luganda for "Tell me") was a pop song about deceptive relationships. The song was well received and given airplay on a few of radio stations in Uganda.[11]
Radio host (since 2003)
In 2013, while still at Radiocity 97Fm,[12] she became a co-host of the U-Request show. She took a maternity break in December 2013 and went to Kenya.[13] In October 2016, she resumed working at Radiocity as a co-host of the Mid-Morning Magazine with Peace Menya until the end of May 2019 when she moved to StarTimes.
Television
Television judge (2011–2013)
In September 2013, Cleopatra joined Flavia Tumusiime and Tusker Project Fame judge and singer Juliana Kanyomozi as audition judges for Tusker Project Fame 6 in Kampala.[14][15][16]
Actress
Film and television
In 2006 Cleopatra auditioned for her first screen acting role for The Last King of Scotland in 2006 in which she played a character named Joy. She has since appeared in a number of film and television productions locally and internationally as well as winning nominations for some of the productions. She has worked on Changes, an M-Net TV series, in seasons 1 and 2 in a supporting role as Nanziri Mayanja from 2008 to 2010, Be the Judge, a Kenyan local TV series as Lucy Mango in 2010, Yogera (2011) playing a double lead role and State Research Bureau (S.R.B) (2011) in a supporting role as Faith Katushabe.[17]
She also worked in Kona, an M-Net TV series where she plays Jakki, a wannabe boxer trying to reconnect with her father, a boxing coach. She appeared in Sense8, a Netflix Original Series as Mother.[18] Cleopatra is set to appear in the new Nana Kagga directed TV series Reflections as Ebony, one of the main four protagonists of the series.
Motivational work
Still in 2012, she was chosen by Reach a Hand Uganda (RAHU), an NGO that aims at empowering the youth, to speak to youths in various schools. After completing the school tours, RAHU commended her as 'Mentor of the Week'.[19] Cleopatra was one of the first cultural icons at Reach a Hand Uganda (RAHU) and was actively involved until 2014[20] when she had to take a break from work to raise her baby.
Training
In 2010 while in preparation to shoot CHANGES season 2, Cleopatra and the principal cast that included Nick Mutuma, Pierra Makena, Nini Wacera, Patricia Kihoro[21] were taken through acting training of The Meisner Technique by Rob Mello, a professional acting coach from Rob Mello Studios Atlanta, USA.
Personal life
Cleopatra was the only child born to Jocelyn Twinesanyu "Sanyu" Rwekikiga and Anthony Abamwikirize Bateyo in 1982. Her father died prior to her birth and her mother died when she was 15. Cleopatra has a daughter who was born in 2014 with boyfriend Lwanda Jawar, a Kenyan actor, model, and stunts director/coordinator.[22] She delivered a baby girl named Aviana Twine Jawar on 22 January 2014.[23] She named her daughter Twine after her mother Twinesanyu.[24]
