Nyambi Nyambi

Nyambi Nyambi junior ( born April 26, 1979 in Norman, Oklahoma ) is an American actor of Nigerian descent.

Life

Nyambi Nyambi was born in 1979 as the son of Nigerian couple Atai and Nyambi Nyambi senior in Norman in the U.S. state of Oklahoma, but grew up most of his childhood and youth in Herndon, Virginia. His high school years were spent at Oakton High School in Fairfax County, where he was on the school team used among other things as a basketball player. Already at that time he held the position of shooting guard, which he kept during his time at the University. His high school team he led to the first winning season in more than 25 years and was taken by his performance in his senior year in the All- District selection. At the Oakton High, he was president of the "College Partnership" program, as well as a member of the " Black Cultural Awareness" Club and Forensics clubs. After his move to Bucknell University, where business administration was his main field of study is dedicated Nyambi also for the local sports department, the Bucknell Bison. He came in 1997/98 Basketball team inserts at 17 University Games and led the junior varsity team ( JV) with 19 three-point throws. In the following season, he completed 13 or 15 games, followed by the 1999/2000 season in which he ran aground in seven or eight games and also as a JV was used. In 2000 Nyambi was elected by his peers to be one of this year's Homecoming hosts.

Career

Already in his childhood loved Nyambi recreate various television characters. For Acting Nyambi found in his senior year when he auditioned for a piece of the university's theater group and he had given a speech on Martin Luther King on campus.

After graduating from Bucknell Nyambi it moved to New York, where he founded the Stella Adler Studio of Acting School Stella Adler Studio of Acting got acting lessons and incidentally also worked for Richard Humphrey of Arts4All. In addition, he received from the New York University a Master of Fine Arts, with which Nyambi paved the way for future acting career itself. Although he was only in local productions to use at first, he soon became, used in larger theater venues, including in various theaters in New York. He played for Partial Comfort Productions in the play A Matter of Choice and was also seen in venues such as the Classical Theatre of Harlem, the New York Theatre Workshop, or at Williamstown Theatre Festival. He also had the role of Caliban in Shakespeare's The Tempest in 2009. held, which was performed in the Classic Stage Company. Furthermore, there was Nyambi who graduated from NYU made ​​only in the year 2008, in a piece Kulakuta in use, which has a strong relation to Nigeria. For this piece, he also had plans to make a film. In 2009, he was among other things, for the South African novelist and playwright Athol Fugard in his piece Coming Home in Philadelphia in use. His breakthrough in film and television had Nyambi few years earlier, when he Two days Two nights was used as one of the two organizers of the American- French-German film production and it took a significant role. Further engagements followed in 2009 in the Short Film Translucent, followed by a series of well-known productions in 2010. Way he was this year, among other things in the film William Vincent next spectacle the likes of James Franco, Julianne Nicholson, Josh Lucas and Martin Donovan in a small guest role in use and also brought it to an appearance in an episode of Law & Order. Furthermore, he made it in 2010 as a Senegalese waiter, Samuel in the cast of the TV series Mike & Molly. He continues to play theater in the LAByrinth Theatre Company.

Filmography

• 2006: Two Days Two Nights ( Day Night Day Night )
• 2009: Translucent
• 2010: William Vincent

• 2010: Law & Order (1 episode)
• Since 2010: Mike & Molly