Well known for her big role on Mzansi Magic’s Isibaya – Iris, Mampho Brescia keeps shinning the light in improving herself in the industry.
She’s scored many TV roles, and her off the screen life is just as amazing.
When she is not busy working on big film roles, she is a hands-on mother and a loving wife.Here’s Mampho Brescia’s biography and how she rose to fame.
Mampho Brescia Age
Mampho Brescia was born on the 8th of December 1977. She is 43 years old.Mampho Brescia Early Life
Although many may call her a city girl being born in Johannesburg, Mampho Brescia revealed that she actually grew up in Soweto together with her parents and siblings.
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Her mother is Augustine Molete. Mampho always appreciated how her mother always taught her and her siblings to appreciate who they are.
Besides playing with her siblings, Mampho Brescia says her parents were quite strict and kept her busy with books. In an interview with Bona Magazine she said,
“My father insisted that I read history books in my spare time, and that shaped my life in many ways,”
Mampho Brescia had aspirations of being in the entertainment industry from a young age, which is why she broke through the mainstream since 1988.
From thereon the beauty queen never stopped appearing on the big screen, playing different film roles which is what perfected her craft as an actress.
The whole of South Africa has come to love and look up to her.
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Mampho Brescia Education
She attended both primary and high school in Johannesburg.
After completing her lower grades she went to the University of the Witwatersrand and acquired a degree in International Relations.
At the age of 23 in 2000 Mampho Brescia received a two-year stint in Japan as part of an exchange program that got her in Soka University.Mampho Brescia Marriage
Mampho Brescia married Nicola Brescia in 2005 and they have been married for 15 years.
The couple Nicola and Mampho Brescia adopted their first child (a girl), whom they call Rain, in 2016.Mampho Brescia Career
She made her first TV appearance in 1998 as a presenter for the show Reality Check.
Her rise to fame became evident as she scored her first acting role as Mbali on the popular soapie Generations which aired on SABC1, in 2002.
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It seemed like the actress was attracting more success and more TV roles because later in 2003 she got a new job as a presenter for the show AfriSat.
In 2005 she was presenting as a freelancer on DSTV while doing corporate videos for firms and institutions like Standard Bank and the Department of Tourism.
She has appeared as a guest on the show Isidingo in 2006, and then she shortly started on her other role on Jacob’s Cross.