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name: "Ntare Mwine"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ntare-guma-mbaho-mwine"
fi1m_id: "ntare-guma-mbaho-mwine"
imdb_id: "nm0616543"
tmdb_id: 16760
wikidata_id: "Q3345980"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "1 May 1967"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 71
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-23T13:30:30.489970+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Ntare Mwine

## Identity

Ntare Mwine

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/ntare-guma-mbaho-mwine
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** ntare-guma-mbaho-mwine
- **IMDb ID:** nm0616543
- **TMDB ID:** 16760
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3345980
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ntare_Guma_Mbaho_Mwine, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3345980, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0616543/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/16760

Actor. Born 1 May 1967 in New Hampshire, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 1 May 1967, New Hampshire, USA
- **Active:** 2010–present
- **Also known as:** Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, 타레 구마 바호 바인
- **Average Fi1m score:** 71, as actor, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 82 (1), 2020s 66 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 71 to 71 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 2 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Crime 2, Mystery 1
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ntare_Guma_Mbaho_Mwine, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3345980, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0616543/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/16760

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Smoke*](https://film.one/tv/smoke.md) (68)
- **Hulu:** [*Dexter: Resurrection*](https://film.one/tv/dexter-resurrection.md) (64)

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## Fi1m on Ntare Mwine

> Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine plays damaged men without asking for our sympathy, and it is the not asking that keeps us watching. Thirty years of guest spots have finally given way to parts big enough to show what he can do.

In *Smoke* (2025), the arson case runs out of things to say well before the ninth episode, and Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine's Freddy Fasano does not. Freddy is a man in visible distress, and the series would like to file that distress as a clue. Mwine will not let it. We found we were still watching him, uneasily, after we had stopped caring who set the fires; the performance stayed troubling when the case had become a chore. That is a hard thing for an actor to manage in a series that is not doing him many favours.

He has been at this since 1992, when a national tour of *Six Degrees of Separation* started him off, and for a long time television used him the way it uses good actors it has not yet worked out: a guest spot on *ER*, another on *Law & Order*, a film debut in *Blood Diamond* (2006). Recurring parts followed, on *Heroes* (2006–2009), on David Simon and Eric Overmyer's *Treme* (2010–2013), twice for Steven Soderbergh. The turn came with Lena Waithe's *The Chi* (2018–2020), where his Ronnie Davis was a man kept precariously balanced, and then Ekwa Msangi's *Farewell Amor* (2020), a lead as Walter, quiet and dutiful. We have not reviewed either, but that is where the reputation was made.

What he does is trained rather than instinctive, and he says so. Of Freddy he has admitted, "I was terrified, because I did not know how to pull this off." The answer was preparation: he lost a great deal of weight for *Smoke* and wore prosthetics, then built himself back up to play Blessing Kamara in *Dexter: Resurrection* (2025) in the same year. The two men are deliberately opposite, and the contrast is the case for him as an actor who remakes himself for a part. We will be honest about the other half of that case: in *Dexter*, sat at Michael C. Hall's table of worse people, he did not draw our eye, and our review did not single him out. The series is nimble and funny and it belongs to Hall.

The risk in his career is plain from the parts list: the traumatised, the marginalised, the man living on the extreme. He plays them better than most, which is why he keeps being asked, and there is a limit to how long any series can hold our sympathy for someone in that much pain. Walter in *Farewell Amor* suggests he is at least as good when nothing is wrong with the character except his circumstances. After thirty years the parts have caught up with him. We would now like to see one that lets him stand still.

## Biography

Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine is an American actor, playwright, photographer and documentarian. Born in 1967 in Hanover, New Hampshire, to Ugandan parents, he was educated at the University of Virginia and received an MFA from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He has also studied at the Moscow Art Theatre and the Royal National Theatre in London.

Mwine began his career in theatre, including a national tour of *Six Degrees of Separation*. His television credits include recurring roles in *Heroes* (2006), *Treme* (2010), *The Knick* (2014) and *The Chi* (2018). Film appearances include *Blood Diamond* (2006). He portrayed Freddy Fasano in the 2025 Apple TV+ series *Smoke* and has appeared in *Dead Ringers* (2023) and *The Lincoln Lawyer* (2022). Mwine has also directed and produced documentaries, including *Memories of Love Returned*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Dexter: Resurrection* (2025), Fi1m 64, as Blessing Kamara — [page](https://film.one/tv/dexter-resurrection.md)
- *Smoke* (2025), Fi1m 68, as Freddy Fasano — [page](https://film.one/tv/smoke.md)
- *Treme* (2010), Fi1m 82, as Jacques Jhoni — [page](https://film.one/tv/treme.md)

## Complete filmography (40)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Washington Black* (2025), series, as Gaius
- *Dexter: Resurrection* (2025), series, as Blessing Kamara — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/tv/dexter-resurrection.md)
- *Smoke* (2025), series, as Freddy Fasano — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/tv/smoke.md)
- *Memories of Love Returned* (2024), Director, Writer, Producer
- *Dead Ringers* (2023), series, as Silas Jordan
- *The Lincoln Lawyer* (2022), series, as Raymond Griggs
- *The Black Disquisition* (2021), as Johnny / Dad
- *Tazmanian Devil* (2020), as Julius Ayodele
- *Farewell Amor* (2020), as Walter
- *Siren* (2018), series, as Professor Aldon Decker
- *Dirt* (2018), as Captain Joe Freeman
- *The Chi* (2018), series, as Ronnie Davis
- *Boost* (2017), as Ramaz 'Ram'
- *Queen of Katwe* (2016), as Tendo
- *Lethal Weapon* (2016), series, as Father Darryl Patterson
- *The Youth* (2015), as Professor Khalil
- *Bosch* (2015), series, as Craig
- *Missing* (2014), as Man · Co-Writer, Executive Producer, Editor, Director, Director of Photography
- *Kuhani* (2013), Director
- *Perception* (2012), series, as ASAC Matthew Jefferies
- *The Newsroom* (2012), series, as Pastor Moses
- *The Space Between* (2011), as Cameroon
- *Treme* (2010), series, as Jacques Jhoni — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/treme.md)
- *40* (2009), as Godwill
- *Biro* (2007), as Biro · Director, Writer
- *The Riches* (2007), series, Actor
- *Blood Diamond* (2006), as M'Ed
- *Heroes* (2006), series, as Usutu — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/tv/heroes.md)
- *The Unit* (2006), series, as Isaias
- *Bones* (2005), series, as Joseph Mbarga — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/tv/bones.md)
- *Alias* (2001), series, as Benjamin Masari — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/alias.md)
- *CSI: Crime Scene Investigation* (2000), series, as Tom Adler
- *Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenét and the City of Boulder* (2000), as Det. Everett
- *Desert Blue* (1999), as Agent Green
- *Brimstone* (1998), series, as Detective Clemens
- *Don King: Only in America* (1997), as Emissary
- *Clover* (1997), as Gaten's brother-in-law
- *ER* (1994), series, as Paul Traylor, Asst. D.A. — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/er.md)
- *New York Undercover* (1994), series, as Mitnick
- *Law & Order* (1990), series, as Mike Davies — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/law-and-order.md)

## Gallery

- ![Ntare Mwine](https://film.one/media/person/43490/gallery-fc9af4146f59.jpg) Ntare Mwine — Toglenn, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Ntare_Mwine_2009.jpg/1280px-Ntare_Mwine_2009.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Ntare Mwine](https://film.one/media/person/43490/gallery-1914839b7fcc.jpg) Ntare Mwine — Image via TMDB
- ![Ntare Mwine](https://film.one/media/person/43490/gallery-8178890a9a7e.jpg) Ntare Mwine — Image via TMDB
- ![Ntare Mwine](https://film.one/media/person/43490/gallery-590b464aa096.jpg) Ntare Mwine — Image via TMDB

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