Jesse Suntele is a model and actor who was born in Johannesburg on September 18, 1992. The well-known character in South African showbiz also raps and presents.
Jesse attracted the attention of many entertainment fans in 2016 after starring on Top Actor Africa, season two. On the BET reality competition series, he won first place.
Jesse Suntele is 29 years old. During his childhood days, while in Grade four, his family relocated to Bloemfontein, the capital city of the Free State, South Africa.
Suntele enrolled in St. Joseph’s Christian Brothers College. He then returned to Johannesburg, where he was born.
He continued his education at the Academy of Sound Engineering. He majored in Sound Engineering at the university.
He became interested in the arts and fell in love with acting after performing in many school plays. After getting his first professional audition, Jesse understood that acting was his thing, possibly a skill. Despite the fact that he has no professional acting instruction.
Jesse Suntele is dating Thuthu, a respected artist manager in South Africa. The couple takes to social media to express the love they have for each other. The actor and rapper left followers going “how sweet” after sharing the song he wrote for his bae for Valentine’s Day. The lyric of the song contains him praising his girlfriend, Thuthu, and further touched how they met and what he would do for her.
In June 2013, he appeared on U Can Do It and left the SABC1 reality competition making it to the Top one-hundred (100).
In May 2014, he appeared again on television after was cast to play a starring role in the Season one finale of Ngempela. Which records the SABC1 docu-drama as his debut credited acting role on TV. More opportunities came knocking after talent prevailed.
The following year, in 2015, he landed a guest-starring role on the popular soap opera Generations: The Legacy.
Nonetheless, he was cast as Kabelo on Ashes to Ashes in 2015. He was a recurrent character in the e.tv soap drama. Winning Top Actor Africa on BET (Season 2) was his big break. He won the show in 2016 after defeating the other contenders in the final episode.
He made a guest appearance on the show in September 2016. Suntele appeared in the third episode of Mutual Friends’ second season. He obtained another position on BET A-List within a week. Jesse was an insert presenter on the BET lifestyle and entertainment magazine program.
After thirty-seven episodes he climbed to the position of anchor presenter, joining three others. He made his debut appearance in May 2017, at the time the show was revamped. It is also worth mentioning that the actor landed other roles on television. He was cast as Tuelo, also addressed as Officer Bae on The Queen.
His first appearance on the popular telenovela on Mzansi Magic in the eighty-eighth episode of the first season. Have you wondered if the “good-cop, bad-cop” from Lego could happen? Well, Officer Bae has the answer, the character protects the rights of citizens during the day as a policeman. At night, he becomes quite the opposite – a serial killer.
He participated in another famous television show, The Hustle, in 2017. He was a regular on the second season of the Vuzu Amp reality competition series, going under the stage name J-Flo. He joined Rhythm City in 2018 and was cast as Nqaba. On the e.tv soap drama, he plays the suave, easygoing son of Suffocate.
He has been able to keep the money coming in as a model and actor. He leads a luxurious life even if he does not brag about it on social media. Jesse Suntele’s net worth is estimated to be $150000.
