Bingwa was born in
Perth, Western Australia. She is the daughter of
Zimbabwean immigrants to Australia. She attended school at
Santa Maria College. Bingwa returned to university to pursue a
Bachelor of Music at the
Australian Institute of Music in Sydney. She took acting as one of her final electives. She completed the acting course in addition to her music degree and signed with an acting agent soon after graduating. She won critical acclaim for her performance in the stage play
Doubt: A Parable, starring as Mrs. Muller, for which she received a
Sydney Theatre Awards nomination. In 2018, Bingwa won the Australian
Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance Scholarship to study at the
Atlantic Theater Company in
New York and then won the
Heath Ledger Scholarship, becoming the first woman of colour and openly gay recipient. Bingwa starred, wrote, produced and co-directed the series
Little Sista, which won the Best Screenplay at the LGBT Toronto Film Festival. She has also starred in the 2020 science fiction horror film
Black Box as Miranda Brooks, part of
Amazon's
Welcome to the Blumhouse anthology film series. She voiced Felicia Cox in both seasons of
QCode's podcast,
The Burned Photo. Her role as Carmen Moyo in the legal drama
The Good Fight was acclaimed as a "gust of chilly Chicago wind, quickly letting you know who's boss here"; she "made a splash upon joining Reddick & Associates", the fictional Chicago law firm in which she plays a talented, quick-witted, cool, gay, and morally complex junior lawyer. Many labelled Bingwa as "the season’s standout performer" in
The Good Fight Season 6. She starred in
Antoine Fuqua's film
Emancipation (2022) as Dodienne, wife of Peter (
Will Smith). She received critical praise for being “unflinching as the film’s emotional pillar" and "incredibly moving," many even hoped "the
Academy won’t overlook such a breakout talent." Bingwa was to have starred as Isisa, a warrior in
Showtime's
King Shaka, also executive produced by Fuqua, but the series was dropped by the network in April 2023 due to a programming overhaul. == Filmography ==