Quanita Adams

Quanita Adams is a stage and screen actress living in Cape Town, South Africa. She has performed in the movies Forgiveness (2004, alongside Arnold Vosloo), Cape of Good Hope (2004) and Skeem (2011). She has appeared on stage in notable plays, including Truth in Translation and At Her Feet. She is the 2008 winner of the Fleur du Cap Theatre Award for Best Supporting Actress for her roles in Cissie, the 2004 winner of the Fleur du Cap Theatre Award for Best Actress for Valley Song and At Her Feet, and the 2003 winner of the Fleur du Cap Theatre Award for Best Ensemble for For Colored Girls.Quanita also plays the role of Mother Laetitia in the SAFTA-winning KykNET drama, Arendsvlei. Furthermore, Adams created the television series Riveiria, based on a grade 7 girl growing up during Apartheid, as well as Vinkel en Koljander. Quotes I don’t know that anything necessarily inspired me except [that] my parents encouraged me. They identified that, “If this child is going to be a fool, we might as well do as much as possible to support that.” I think growing up and being taken to theatre and to the Philharmonic orchestra and then seeing people onstage who kind of looked like me, made it possible. I didn’t start out wanting to be a performer. I studied Fine Art. I lasted two years at Michaelis and then we decided to consciously uncouple and my parents were like, “If you think you are going to be a varsity dropout after two years, think again.” I don’t know about prodigy but I was just out there. I was just extra. I think that my parents, both of whom are incredibly talented in their own right, are both very artistic and they sing incredibly beautifully and are more dramatic than I could ever aspire to. I think I come from a family that was fairly encouraging of that. I studied Drama and then graduated and went off and sang in Mallorca for a year in a cover/ tribute girl band. Then I came back and did Honours. I suddenly realise that I’ve deviated from the question but I don’t know where I got my inspiration from. It just happened and then I was encouraged by my parents and then seeing people on stages and screens performing made me believe that it was possible to be a legitimate way to live ones life through one’s craft. Honestly, I think I wasted it. I think the two years spent at Michaelis were so desperately unhappy that by the time I moved to Drama School, even though I knew everyone because we were all on the same campus together, suddenly I was two years older than the people in my class and I still had so much residual anger from my experience in Fine Arts that I kind of think I squandered a lot of the opportunities. I think I wasted it, if I’m honest. I think I didn’t go to any extra lengths to connect with any of my lecturers. Having said that, I was incredibly close to Yvonne Banning who has since passed away. External links Category:Living people