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Model focus
from Upcoming Mag 18
by Upcoming Mag
PERSONAL STRENGHTS • Script writing • Acting • modelling • Communication skills • Creative writing • Organization skills • Problem solving skills
“Nothing worth having comes easy” SLOGAN Mary Linnah Masilela is a dynamic, versatile actress, model and an aspiring script writer born and bred in Tonga Block A (Mpumalanga ) Mary is a daughter of two different tribes, her father is Tsonga and her mother is Swati She developed an interest in acting when she do stage dramas during her years in primary school. She started acting in grade 4, doing stage dramas that were perfomed in home based care (orphanage home) based in Block A Mpumalanga.
Mary started school in Mdladla Primary School from grade 1 to grade 3 then moved to enkhokhokhweni primary school based in Clau-Clau in 2009 where she did her grade 4 to grade 7, then went to do her secondary in Mbuyane Senior Secondary school in the year 2013.
In 2016 Mary moved to Gauteng to pursue her acting career and in January 2017 she joined a production company called BLUE TEARS FILMS based in Ivory park Midrand (Gauteng), and that’s where she was introduced to screen acting through acting classes. During her classes with BLUE TEARS FILMS she also discovered that she’s a model then decided to pursue her modelling career aswel.
In December 2017 Mary got her first job as a model. She was featured in Khuza-boy’s hip hop music video directed by CJ. The music video was shot in Pretoria CBD (Gauteng). The same month she also got couple features from Lzwazi and Victor and one of the music video she was featured in played on Channel O and MTVBASE (Mbala dance by Lwazi and Victor)
Mary also worked with with BLUE TEARS FILMS in a film called WANTED directed by Tiisetso Mapodile and she also worked with Chicken Film Production, Byeko Records and LOUDLY COMIX in a film called Unembeza as an actress. Mary is also a mother of a 6 years beautiful daughter named Patience. She is inspired by American RNB singers UPCOMING MAG 51 Beyonce, Sia, Jason Derullo, Katy Perry And Taylor Swift