International award-winning South African actress, film producer, casting director and businesswoman, Terry Pheto, has been announced as the latest cast member to join Showtime drama series “King Shaka” slated to debut in 2023. Terry Pheto will take on the role of Juma, wife to Zwide played by Adewale Akinnuoye- Agbaje (Oz, The Bourne Identity, Game of Thrones).
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In “King Shaka” we see Terry Pheto in front of the camera again after making a move behind the scenes as a Film Producer and Casting Director with casting work such as Netflix’s Savage Beauty and The Braves One (premiering 16 September 2022).
“King Shaka” adds to Terry Pheto’s illustrious international body of work alongside “Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom” and “A United Kingdom” just to highlight a few.
King Shaka synopsis
Rooted in actual events, King Shaka tells the story of the Zulu Empire founder Shaka (to be played by Charles Babalola) and his unlikely rise to power, uniting multiple tribes across vast stretches of southern Africa in the early 19th century to transform his power into legend, on par with history’s most seminal figures. The outcast son of a Zulu Chief, Shaka is a visionary who is prophesied to become a king like none before him. In ferocious battles that test the body and soul, in alliances that test the bonds of love and friendship, a complex sociological system plays out that renders the human cost front and center, for the victors as well as the vanquished, all in an effort to carve out a semblance of identity, fulfillment and ultimately, survival.
