Flora Suya
Malawian actress
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Flora Suya is a Malawian actress. She was nominated as best actress at the 6th and 9th Africa Movie Academy Awards ceremonies.
Career
Alongside Tapiwa Gwaza, Suya played the lead role in Seasons of a Life (2010), which narrates the ordeal of an African maid who was sexually violated by her boss, who then denied her custody of her child.[1] She got Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her role in the film.[2] In 2013, she starred in Shemu Joyah, Last Fishing Boat, where she was the love interest of a tourist and wife of a polygamous man, the role got her nominated as best actress at AMAA awards.[3][4] In 2014, she filmed her part in the Zambian film, Chenda, which tells a story about the trouble barren women have and the negative reaction of African men towards their condition.[5] The film was launched in December 2014, and released in 2015.[6]
In 2016, her film, My Mothers Story was announced as one of the opening films at the Silicon Valley African Film Festival in United States.[7] the film tells a story of the sufferings women go through to secure their home without help from a husband. In the film, she plays Tadala, a single mother in a gender and culturally sensitive African setting.[8] She was the main actor in the ninety minute film that premiered in Lilongwe in May, but she also included Tapiwa Gwaza and Miriam Mwazimva.[9]
When Flora Suya made her 2018 film, Pen Pal about a woman who is tricked into marrying the wrong person but later meets her pen pal. Suya again cast Tapiwa Gwaza, this time in the main role.[10]
In 2020 she returned to Zambia to appear in three episodes of the daily soap, Zuba.[11]
In 2025 she stood to be the President of the Film Association of Malawi but she was defeated by entrepreneur Dorothy Kingston.[12][13]