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Nzinga Blake is an American / Sierra Leonean actress and writer currently a host on Current TV. Blake starred on the TV series Fridays on Cartoon Network, as well as in national television commercials for Sprite and Kinkos. Her father, Cecil Blake is the former Minister of Information in Sierra Leone.^[1]

Career

Nzinga has done a couple of television series including a recurring role on SHOWTIME series Barbershop, which only lasted one season. She played the role of Vivian. She also had a recurring role on What About Brian, where she played Brian's receptionist Rona. While at Current she also did a lot of voice overs for the animation SuperNews!, where she did various characters, but mostly known for doing the voice for Condoleezza Rice.

Recently she was listed in the credits under "Special Thanks" for the E! True Hollywood Story on Tropic Thunder.

In 2009 she began hosting for BET and is the LA Entertainment correspondent for a talk show on Australia's Network 10 entitled the 7pm Project.

Trivia

• Nzinga Blake was named after Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba, a 17th century Queen and folk heroine of the Mbundu people of southwestern Africa.
• She is a 1999 graduate of Munster High School in Indiana, and a 2003 graduate of UCLA as a Film & Television Major.
• On an episode of Google Current she suggested (jokingly) "maybe people could update my page and say that I'll be starring opposite Brad Pitt and Johnny Depp in their next big movie". [1]
• As mentioned in one of the ads for Fridays, she is fluent in speaking Japanese, although she claims to speak some. Later on in said ad, she mentions the block title, start date, and network in Japanese.
• She is now a host on Current TV, which is owned by Al Gore.

References

1. ^ News Special

External links

• Photos of Nzinga Blake
• Fridays Website
• Current TV profile
• Nzinga Blake's MySpace