Charmaine Bingwa

Bingwa was born in Perth, Western Australia. She began her career as a singer, but when completing her Bachelor of Music at university, until she took acting as one of her final electives. She completed the acting course in addition to her music degree and signed with an acting agent soon after graduating. She won critical acclaim in the stage role Doubt: A Parable starring as Mrs. Muller, for which she received a Sydney Theatre Awards nomination. In 2018, she won the Australian Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance Scholarship to study at the Atlantic Theater Company in New York and then won the Heath Ledger Scholarship, becoming the first woman of colour and openly gay recipient. Bingwa also starred, wrote, produced and co-directed the series Little Sista, which won the LGBT Toronto Film Festival. Her role (Carmen Moyo) in The Good Fight was acclaimed as a "gust of chilly Chicago wind, quickly letting you know who's boss here"; she "made a splash upon joining Reddick & Associates", the fictional Chicago law firm in which she plays a talented, quick-witted, cool, gay, and morally complex junior lawyer.

Charmaine Bingwa (born 13 November 1985) is an Australian actress known for her role as Carmen Moyo in The Good Fight. She stars in Antoine Fuqua's recently released Emancipation as Dodienne, wife of Peter (Will Smith), in which Variety has tipped her as one of their predictions for the 2023 Oscars in the Best Supporting Actress category. Bingwa is next set to appear as Isisa, a fierce and formidable warrior in King Shaka, also Executive Produced by Antoine Fuqua. She has also starred in Black Box as Miranda Brooks, part of Amazon's Welcome to the Blumhouse anthology film series. Bingwa won the 2018 Heath Ledger Scholarship award. She also voiced Felicia Cox in both seasons of QCode's successful podcast, The Burned Photo.