Sara Zwangobani is an Australian actress. She rose to prominence portraying Marigold Brandyfoot in Amazon Prime Video's The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power in 2022. She has also appeared in Australian tv and film in Love My Way and Monarch Cove (2006), All Saints (2005 & 2009), Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King (2006), Disgrace (2008), Packed to the Rafters’’ (2009), Soul Mates (2014), Home and Away and Doctor Doctor (2019).
Zwangobani was born in Canberra, New South Wales, Australia, and brought up in Cook and attended Cook Primary School. She has a Zimbabwean father and a Zulu surname and a sibling, brother Elliott Zwangobani, Australian Sports Commission director, a former futsal player. She attended Cook Primary School, then undertook a drama program at Hawker College, Canberra. From 1985-1988, she trained in dance, many forms, such as ballet, jazz, modern, funkm and as a tap dancer, at Betsy Sawyer’s School of Dance, and with the Human Veins Dance Theatre. In 1989, undertook a Television and Film Workshops course at Broadway Film Studios in Canberra.
She furthered her education at the Victorian College of the Arts, graduating in 1992 with a Diploma of arts in dramatic arts (Acting).
On graduating, Zwangobani was approached by actor John Howard for acting roles for the Sydney Theatre Company. Performances include Summer of the Aliens, The Crucible (2000), Women in Shorts (1997), Pulse 10 (1999), Imago (2001). Girl in Tan Boots for the Griffin Theatre Company, Lyrebird for the Old Fitzroy Theatre, Dirty Butterfly. Zwangobani played Mark Antony in Julius Caesar In 2009, she played Rosetta in the Liv Ullmann directed A Streetcar Named Desire working with Cate Blanchett. In 2010, Zwangobani starred in the Sydney Theatre Company’s production of the Sarah Ruhl play In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) directed by Pamela Rabe. Zwangobani played Elizabeth, a wet nurse of the main character

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