Australian actress and Heath Ledger Scholarship winner Charmaine Bingwa is headed to Hollywood to star in CBS series The Good Fight
In 2018, Australian-Zimbabwean actress Charmaine Bingwa was officially named as the winner of the Heath Ledger Scholarship.
And just three short years later, the 35-year-old has made waves in Hollywood, landing a role in the CBS series The Good Fight.
A spin-off from the hit show The Good Wife, Charmaine will star opposite Christine Baranski, Justin Bartha and Rose Leslie on the drama series.
Fast track: In 2018, Australian-Zimbabwean actress Charmaine Bingwa (pictured) was named as the winner of the Heath Ledger Scholarship. And just three short years later, the 35-year-old has made waves in Hollywood, landing a role in the CBS series The Good Fight
She told Perth Now on Friday that she was ‘absolutely thrilled’ about being cast in the show.
Charmaine is now based in the USA, and has been living in New York, where filming is underway amid the pandemic.
‘Just seeing everyone wearing masks, [especially] coming from WA, and it’s just so cold filming in New York City,’ she told the paper of the experience.
Good work! She told Perth Now on Friday that she was ‘absolutely thrilled’ about being cast in the show. Charmaine is now based in the USA, and has been living in New York, where filming is underway amid the pandemic
Charmaine was up against hundreds of candidates by a highly-acclaimed judging panel for the 2018 Heath Ledger Scholarship, and remarkably made history as the first black woman to win the coveted award.
She took a moment on stage after her win to credit the late Heath Ledger in inspiring her to openly come out as gay.
Referring to the late Heath’s iconic performance in Brokeback Mountain, the budding actress said: ‘It inspired me to live my life to the fullest and I came out as openly gay. That’s the power of performance.’
Winner: Charmaine was up against hundreds of candidates by a highly-acclaimed judging panel for the 2018 Heath Ledger Scholarship, and remarkably made history as the first black woman to win the coveted award
‘I think Heath believed in everyone having a fair go but the current state of screen diversity means that not everybody is able to have a fair go.
‘As a female, as a person of colour, as a gay person, I have the trifecta here,’ she added.
In honour of the beloved actor, the scholarship is often awarded to an ambitious and highly talented Australian as a way of encouraging and launching an immediate start to their career.
Icon: She took a moment on stage after her win to credit the late Heath Ledger in inspiring her to openly come out as gay. Referring to Heath’s iconic performance in Brokeback Mountain, the budding actress said: ‘It inspired me to live my life to the fullest’. Heath is pictured