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Shirleen Wangari

  • Actress
  • Producer
  • Writer
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18 HOURS follows a rookie paramedic who spends 18 hours in an ambulance for the life of a road crash victim who struggles to be admitted to any hospital.
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18 Hours (2017)
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Shirleen Wangari is a Kenyan actress, writer producer. She started acting in high school where she won her first best actress award. She has acted in Various films and on TV series including, BBC's the first grader, the captain of Nakara on Netflix, MTV Shuga, Zuku's State house, sense 8 on Netfilx. She has written work that has been selected at Cannes film Festival (Dawn-2018) and Durban Film Mart (An African Tale 2017). In 2021 she is producing 'Guatha', a post apocalyptic feature film set in 2035 South Africa with untitled entertainment funded by Kwa Zulu Natal film commission, 'Wavamizi' a period piece on the Portuguese occupation of Mombasa (1600's). She runs Blackwell films in Nairobi.
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    Life (2022)
    Life
    • Luscious woman
    • 2022
    Sahara Mohammed, George Kituto, and Shirleen Wangari in Zuena (2022)
    Zuena
    • Zuena
    • 2022
    Peponi (2022)
    Peponi
    7.0
    • Melda
    • 2022
    Bae Doona, Max Riemelt, Brian J. Smith, Miguel Ángel Silvestre, Tuppence Middleton, Tina Desai, Jamie Clayton, and Toby Onwumere in Sense8 (2015)
    Sense8
    8.2
    TV Series
    • Young Woman

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    Actress



    • Isaboke Nyakundi and Shirleen Wangari in 1992 (2024)
      1992
      7.1
      Short
      • Beth and Tamara
      • 2024
    • Peponi (2022)
      Peponi
      7.0
      • Melda
      • 2022
    • Life (2022)
      Life
      • Luscious woman
      • 2022
    • Sahara Mohammed, George Kituto, and Shirleen Wangari in Zuena (2022)
      Zuena
      • Zuena
      • 2022
    • The System (2019)
      The System
      TV Series
      • Teiye Secretary
      • 2019
    • Subira (2018)
      Subira
      5.7
      • Waitress
      • 2018
    • 18 Hours (2017)
      18 Hours
      7.0
      • 2017
    • Bae Doona, Max Riemelt, Brian J. Smith, Miguel Ángel Silvestre, Tuppence Middleton, Tina Desai, Jamie Clayton, and Toby Onwumere in Sense8 (2015)
      Sense8
      8.2
      TV Series
      • Young Woman
      • 2017
    • Gerald Langiri in Shit Happens (2017)
      Shit Happens
      7.2
      TV Mini Series
      • Frun Fyne
      • 2017
    • Blind Fame
      TV Movie
      • Lilian
      • 2015
    • Gloves with Love (2014)
      Gloves with Love
      TV Movie
      • 2014
    • State House (2014)
      State House
      TV Series
      • Zandola (as Shirleen Wangari Kiura)
      • 2014
    • Rigga: Ring Finger
      Music Video
      • 2013
    • Dany Boon and Diane Kruger in A Perfect Plan (2012)
      A Perfect Plan
      6.3
      • 2012
    • Lerato Walaza in Shuga (2009)
      Shuga
      7.3
      TV Series
      • Kipepeo
      • 2012

    Producer



    • Isaboke Nyakundi and Shirleen Wangari in 1992 (2024)
      1992
      7.1
      Short
      • producer
      • 2024
    • Act of Love (2023)
      Act of Love
      8.5
      Short
      • producer
      • 2023
    • Peponi (2022)
      Peponi
      7.0
      • producer
      • 2022
    • Life (2022)
      Life
      • producer
      • 2022
    • Sahara Mohammed, George Kituto, and Shirleen Wangari in Zuena (2022)
      Zuena
      • producer
      • 2022
    • Wavamizi (2018)
      Wavamizi
      Short
      • producer
      • 2018

    Writer



    • Isaboke Nyakundi and Shirleen Wangari in 1992 (2024)
      1992
      7.1
      Short
      • Writer
      • 2024
    • Life (2022)
      Life
      • written by
      • 2022
    • Country Queen (2022)
      Country Queen
      5.1
      TV Series
      • creator, writer
      • 2022
    • Sahara Mohammed, George Kituto, and Shirleen Wangari in Zuena (2022)
      Zuena
      • Writer
      • 2022

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