Kudi Maradzika is a UK-based Zimbabwean-South African screenwriter, director, producer, and performer whose storytelling has reached global audiences on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Paramount, Showmax, MTV, and Comedy Central.

She is the creator, co-head writer, and executive producer of Bad Influencer, a Netflix Original series (2025) that reached the Netflix Global Top 10, and the founder of Lincoln Green Media, an award-winning company developing high-impact African IP across screen, print, and digital platforms.

Her accolades span the disciplines she works across: an Africa Movie Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for Tanyaradzwa (2006), an AMVCA Award, four SAFTA wins, Gold and Silver Promax Global Awards, multiple Loerie nominations, and an International Emmy nomination as part of the team behind Mandela Day. She has acted in acclaimed Netflix and Amazon series and is currently filming a role in a global fantasy franchise, and as a voice artist, she featured in the Annie- and International Emmy-winning animation Kizazi Moto.

As a filmmaker, her feature Njuzu was selected for Durban FilmMart Access (2023), and her feature Death and Its Friends was selected for the Locarno Open Doors Lab (2025), received development support from South Africa's NFVF, and was the only African title on the +WScripted Cannes Screenplay List (2026). She has developed work through elite international labs including the Realness × Netflix Episodic Lab, the Creative Producer Indaba, IFFR Rotterdam, and Atlas Workshops (Morocco).

In 2025, she received the Forty Under 40 Africa Award for innovation in storytelling. She was shortlisted for the 2026 Création Africa programme, funded by Institut Français, and appeared on the 2026 Forbes Africa 30 Under 50 list.

Casarotto Ramsay and Associates and OSM represent Kudi. IMDB link here.