Cleo Rinkwest

Cleo Rinkwest is a South African actress. In 2014, Cleo appeared with Samuel L Jackson, India Eisley and Callan McCauliffe in the action film Kite, based on the anime of the same name by Yasuomi Umetsu. Ralph Ziman directed the film. In 2012, she made her theatrical debut alongside veteran actress Dorothy Anne Gould in Sophocles' Antigone, in which she played the namesake of the play. In the same year, Cleo was nominated for her role in As It Used To Be - a short film by French Director Clement Gonzales that has won several audience awards at film festivals in Europe and the US. The film starred renowned actor, Luthuli Dlamini. At 23 Cleo was the youngest writer to work on the Bafta nominated soap, The Wild. Her writing credits also include Safta award winning series Soul City, Zone 14, Isidingo as well as Ashes to Ashes, Zabalaza and Keeping Score in which she portrayed gymnast Jin Jai Kim. Story is a formally trained Ballroom and Latin American dancer and appeared as the lead in SAMA nominated act, Mi Casa's video titled Cleo 'Heavenly Sent'.