Wright Ngubeni was born in Soweto, Johannesburg. Wright’s career began at the tender age of 5 as one of the characters on the popular children’s television programme, Kideo. By the age of 10, Wright had featured as an actor in numerous television commercials and joined Professional Kids Casting Agency, through which his television presenting and acting career was launched.

His first presenting job was on SABC 2’s School TV. Later, he acted in television dramas and corporate videos, including the critically acclaimed industrial video - “Kingdom of the Sun”.

At age 11, he acted in the television drama, Street Life on SABC 3, in which he played the lead role as a street kid. In 2000 Wright re-launched his TV career by appearing in a commercial for national retailer, Edgars.

He made his international debut in the mini series, Human Cargo in which he played Nobakhaba, a Burundian teenager with a Hutu mother and Tutsi father; caught up in a cultural war going on in his country between the tribes.

His next international feature was Shadow, in which he played a small role of the son of Amin Walker. While busy lending his voice to the South African audience as a voice-over artist, he was cast in the popular South African soapie Generations on SABC 1 for the role of Jonathan Motene.

While on Generations, he auditioned to anchor World of Winners on SABC 2. The show which was initially a 5 minute weekly game show proved to be popular to the point that the SABC extended it to a 30 minute daily live show. It was at this point, Wright left Generations to pursue live TV.

Wright’s last major engagement was in More Than Just A Game, the docu-drama about the role of soccer on Robben Island which is produced by Anant Singh.

Beyond working as an actor, Wright works as trainee director on SABC 1’s Gospel Gold.

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