Amanda Du-Pont

Du-Pont was born on 26 June 1988 in Manzini, Swaziland. She is of French, Chinese, Portuguese and Swazi ancestry. She was born and raised in Manzini and lived with her cousin Alulutho Du Pont, also Swati. Later they moved to Mpumalanga to finish their schooling at Uplands College.

In 2011, Du-Pont was awarded a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the South African School of Motion Picture and Live Performance in Johannesburg. The next year, she graduated from the New York Film Academy in New York City, where she was awarded a full scholarship for scholastic excellence.

Du-Pont had a leading role in the 2014 feature film, Between Friends, and a recurring role in the hit South African television program Skeem Saam. She was the co-host of Real Goboza. She has starred in the CW drama Life is Wild, SABC 2's Muvhango, Intersexions, Generations, Mzanzi TV's Loxion Bioscopeseries, and the 2015 feature film Hear Me Move. In February 2019, it was announced that Du-Pont would star in the Netflix thriller series Shadow.

In July 2018, Du-Pont got engaged to businessman Shawn Rodriques in the Maldives.