Madina Nalwanga Net Worth 2024

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Madina Nalwanga  is a Ugandan actress famous for her lead role as Phiona in Disney’s Queen of Katwe

Nalwaga received numerous accolades for her acting debut, including an NAACP Image Award, a Women Film Critics Circle Award and Critics Choice Award nominations.

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Madina Nalwanga Profile

Madina was born in the poor Katwe neighborhood in Kampala, Uganda, and spent her childhood selling corn on the streets. Nalwanga was discovered by a casting director at a community dance class in the Kabalagala neighborhood of Kampala, Uganda, a slum known for prostitution.

Career

Madina madde her movie debut in 2016 in Disney’s Queen of Katwe. The film depicts the life of Phiona Mutesi, a Ugandan girl living in a slum in Katwe who learns to play chess and becomes a Woman Candidate Master

During the filming of Queen of Katwe, David Oyelowo took Nalwanga to see Jurassic World with other kids from the set, and discovered she’d never seen a movie when she asked, “Is that what we are doing?” When she watched Queen of Katwe, it was only the second time she’d been inside a movie theater. She has said her young life closely mirrored that of her character Phiona in Queen of Katwe.

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At 17 years old, Forbes named her the youngest person on their 2018 “30 Under 30” list.  According to a University of Oxford study from their department of Economics, students in Uganda who watched Queen of Katwe before taking their national exams received better grades than those who didn’t.

Madina Nalwanga Net Worth

Madina Nalwanga Net Worth is still under review. She was named the youngest person in Forbes list of 30 under 30 list. Madina is an actress with a bright future ahead of her. Her accolades are enormous.

She also won an NAACP Image Award, a Women Film Critics Circle Award, and was nominated for a Critic’s Choice Award.

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