{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Person",
  "@id": "https://www.screensearch.co.uk/person/1314177/portia-gumede",
  "name": "Portia Gumede",
  "url": "https://www.screensearch.co.uk/person/1314177/portia-gumede",
  "knownForDepartment": "Writing",
  "description": "Portia Gumede is a South African actress and writer best known for her role as receptionist Dinki Dube on the SABC3 television drama series Hard Copy.\n\nShe also co-wrote, produced (with her production company Paw Paw) and starred in the SABC1 mini-series Izingane zoBaba, based on the Shakespeare play King Lear. The six-part series aired on SABC1 from April to May 2008, as part of its \"Shakespeare in Mzansi\" strand of mini-series.\n\nOther television series she has acted in include Home Affairs, Going up Again, Backstage, Egoli, Stokvel, Soul City and Sibahle, a short film. She also appeared in Leon Schuster's movie Oh Schucks, I’m Gatvol.\n\nShe has also created or written several television shows, including Sokhulu & Partners, which was nominated for an International Emmy Best Drama Award in 2009; Home Affairs 2 and 3, Stokvel, Interrogation Room and Keeping Up Appearances.",
  "birthDate": "1977-05-12",
  "image": "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/uwnbnz0SFOT5gxqUC3nZHB46AEZ.jpg",
  "sameAs": [
    "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2039981"
  ],
  "lastVerified": "7 May 2026",
  "filmography": [
    {
      "mediaType": "tv",
      "tmdbId": 227975,
      "title": "Fatal Seduction",
      "year": "2023",
      "role": "Writer",
      "roleKind": "crew",
      "voteAverage": 6.5,
      "posterUrl": "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/qV9DjDIMUu7ieCQTQkEe9R83Ooa.jpg",
      "screenSearchUrl": "https://www.screensearch.co.uk/watch/tv/227975/fatal-seduction-2023"
    },
    {
      "mediaType": "tv",
      "tmdbId": 131399,
      "title": "Hard Copy",
      "year": "2005",
      "role": "as Dinki Dube",
      "roleKind": "cast",
      "voteAverage": null,
      "posterUrl": "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/5QFUl8b73Ve4jDTThW9oBReGIpi.jpg",
      "screenSearchUrl": "https://www.screensearch.co.uk/watch/tv/131399/hard-copy-2005"
    },
    {
      "mediaType": "tv",
      "tmdbId": 303658,
      "title": "Housekeepers",
      "year": "2018",
      "role": "Story Developer",
      "roleKind": "crew",
      "voteAverage": null,
      "posterUrl": "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/t4P1WGW16rOPg5E3298UMnplLHz.jpg",
      "screenSearchUrl": "https://www.screensearch.co.uk/watch/tv/303658/housekeepers-2018"
    },
    {
      "mediaType": "tv",
      "tmdbId": 262414,
      "title": "Stokvel",
      "year": "2003",
      "role": "as Thembekile Khumalo",
      "roleKind": "cast",
      "voteAverage": 6,
      "posterUrl": "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/ivN4IhuLavOiSKATSeqKpNCsjty.jpg",
      "screenSearchUrl": "https://www.screensearch.co.uk/watch/tv/262414/stokvel-2003"
    },
    {
      "mediaType": "tv",
      "tmdbId": 209390,
      "title": "The Brave Ones",
      "year": "2022",
      "role": "Creator",
      "roleKind": "crew",
      "voteAverage": 6.4,
      "posterUrl": "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/gtJVqPfax61940ak6k94F3D6Klh.jpg",
      "screenSearchUrl": "https://www.screensearch.co.uk/watch/tv/209390/the-brave-ones-2022"
    },
    {
      "mediaType": "movie",
      "tmdbId": 62890,
      "title": "Oh Schuks... I'm Gatvol!",
      "year": "2004",
      "role": "as Air Hostess",
      "roleKind": "cast",
      "voteAverage": 4.7,
      "posterUrl": "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/piPsntYS7RM7YQWJJvKmlKn9Kd0.jpg",
      "screenSearchUrl": "https://www.screensearch.co.uk/watch/movie/62890/oh-schuks-i-m-gatvol-2004"
    }
  ]
}