Person
Colette Dalal Tchantcho
From Wikipedia
Colette Dalal Tchantcho is an actor and theatre maker based in the United Kingdom. They are known for their roles in the Sky Atlantic series Domina (2021) and the Starz series Dangerous Liaisons (2022).
They are genderfluid and go by they/them pronouns.
Early life
Tchantcho was born in Kuwait to a Cameroonian father from Bangangté and a Kuwaiti mother from a Sunni family. They attended the British School in Kuwait (BSK). They graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Acting from the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA) in 2011.
Career
Tchantcho made their television debut in 2018 with guest appearances in the BBC One medical soap opera Doctors and the BBC Four documentary series Arena. They also played Orsino in Twelfth Night at the Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh and the Bristol Old Vic and toured Scotland with Eddie and the Slumber Girls. The following year, they played Véa in an episode of the Netflix fantasy series The Witcher.
In 2021, Tchantcho began starring as Antigone in the British-Italian Sky Atlantic and Sky Italia historical drama Domina, set in Ancient Rome and centred around Livia Drusilla (Kasia Smutniak). That same year, Tchantcho was cast as Ondine, Vicomtesse de Valmont in the Starz adaptation of Dangerous Liaisons, which premiered in November 2022. They had performed Les Liaisons Dangereuses before during her time at LIPA. They are currently developing a one-person stage show titled Dreamer. They are also featured in the Paramount+ series No Escape.
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