Charmaine Bingwa

Acting

Charmaine Bingwa

Perth, Australia

Charmaine Bingwa is a Zimbabwean-Australian actress and writer. She's known for her powerful portrayal of Carmen in the CBS legal drama The Good Fight (2020–2022). Her nuanced performance earned her critical acclaim and positioned her as one of television’s rising talents. Bingwa made her feature film debut in Black Box (2020), part of the Blumhouse-Amazon anthology series, and went on to star opposite Will Smith in Emancipation (2022), directed by Antoine Fuqua. She also appeared in King Shaka (2024) and has voiced roles in animated series such as Back to the Outback (2022). In addition to acting, Bingwa is an award-winning screenwriter and a 2018 Heath Ledger Scholarship recipient. Known for her emotionally grounded performances and activist spirit, she continues to craft work that centers underrepresented voices with honesty and depth. Description above based on media reports and Charmaine Bingwa’s public credits.

Acting credits

Emancipation poster
7.7

Inspired by the gripping true story of a man who would do anything for his family—and for freedom. When Peter, an enslaved man, risks his life to escape and return to his family, he embarks on a perilous journey of love and endurance.

Emancipation

2022

Back to the Outback poster
7.6

Tired of being locked in a reptile house where humans gawk at them like they are monsters, a ragtag group of Australia’s deadliest creatures plot an escape from their zoo to the Outback, a place where they’ll fit in without being judged.

Back to the Outback

2021

Nekrotronic poster
5.9

A man discovers that he is part of a secret sect of magical beings who hunt down and destroy demons in the internet.

Nekrotronic

2018

Black Box poster
6.4

After losing his wife and his memory in a car accident, a single father undergoes an experimental treatment that causes him to question who he really is.

Black Box

2020

Trees of Peace poster
7.2

Four women from different backgrounds forge an unbreakable sisterhood while trapped and in hiding during the genocide in Rwanda.

Trees of Peace

2021

Hello Au Revoir poster
6.0

1500 Actors from all around the World help create a very unique and groundbreaking Feature Film.

Hello Au Revoir

2018

The Better Man poster
NR

When a down-and-out indie filmmaker learns he needs an A-List actor for his impending studio pitch, he coerces his estranged father into an outback road trip to find an elusive movie star.

The Better Man

No artwork available
NR

A short film about getting past or over it.

Miranda of Mind

Can You Dig It? poster
NR

A member of bar staff in a theatre plants hidden microphones and listens in on audience conversations.

Can You Dig It?

2018

Party of Two poster
NR

A young woman's suicide plans are put on hold after a night of self-discovery when she befriends another woman.

Party of Two

2019