About
family
Leilah Nakabira is a passionate Actor born and raised in Uganda by a single mother the Late Asiat Nakibuuka Bakungu and currently lives in California USA ,i have many siblings some of whom I have never met but I feel proud to mention Sarah, Milly, Catherine and Christine as my sisters and Ramathan as my brother, she said, i am a proud mother too to a handsome six-year-old Moses.
PROFESSIONAL JOURNEY
Leilah Nakabira started professional acting in 2014 when she joined a drama group "The Ebonies" she did theatre with the group until she landed her first speaking role in film in 2016 in the Movie "Dream America" about three boys who were so passionate about living in the USA where she acted as "linnet" a girlfriend to the lead, this movie got nominated for different awards and was seen by many, she then acted more theatre productions including " Paul kilimuttu" ," Engalabi ya Nadduli", and Ekyombo ky'obulamu between 2016 and 2017, still in 2017 she got a chance to audition and land her first leading role in the movie "the Forbidden" this gave her 11 Best actress nominations and 3 awards around the world, she then featured in several tv commercials, movies like "Slay Queens" and made an appearance in "Mistakes Gals Do" a popular 2019 tv series that aired on a Ugandan local channel "pearl magic" . Leilah wrote and produced a short film "April Baby" about A woman who accidentally kills her boyfriend trying to save her son, this got her nominated for best story at Udada international women film festival in 2018.
Leilah moved to the USA in early 2020 and first stayed in Boston Massachussets , she has so far done background work on projects like "I Wanna Dance with Somebody" a Whitney Houston biopic by Sony pictures that just came out in December 2022, a tv show"Julia child" on HBO about an American cook Julia
child and more.
Am still very hopeful about the feature of my acting career and am never going to give up on it, i have never had an agent but i think its time.