{"id":435778,"date":"2017-11-10T07:40:37","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T07:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/11\/10\/ghanaian-hollywood-star-loses-his-father\/"},"modified":"2017-11-10T07:40:37","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T07:40:37","slug":"ghanaian-hollywood-star-loses-his-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/11\/10\/ghanaian-hollywood-star-loses-his-father\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghanaian Hollywood Star loses his father"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"> <\/aside>\n<p>Ghanaian-British actor, <strong>Peter Mensah<\/strong>\u2019s father is dead.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Osei Mensah is said to have died on Tuesday, November 7, 2017 in Kumasi. He was the owner of\u00a0Mount Olivet School at Odeneho Kwadaso in Kumasi.<\/p>\n<p>Actor Mensah is best known for his roles in\u00a0<i>Tears of the Sun<\/i>,\u00a0<i>Hidalgo<\/i>,\u00a0<i>300<\/i>, and\u00a0<i>Dead Space<\/i>, and more recently on the\u00a0Starz\u00a0original series,\u00a0<i>Spartacus: Blood and Sand<\/i>,\u00a0<i>Spartacus: Gods of the Arena<\/i>, and\u00a0<i>Spartacus: Vengeance<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p data-iceapw=\"42\">Mensah was born at\u00a0Chiraa,\u00a0Ghana, and comes from an academic family. He was born to parents from the\u00a0Brong Ahafo Region,\u00a0and moved to\u00a0Hertfordshire,\u00a0England, with his father, an engineer, his mother, a writer, and two younger sisters at a young age.\u00a0Mensah began practicing martial arts at the age of six.<\/p>\n<p data-iceapw=\"42\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-54229 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Peter-Mensah-Midnight-Texas-2.jpg\"   alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Mensah\u2019s film credits include\u00a0<i>Avatar<\/i>,\u00a0<i>300<\/i>,\u00a0<i>Hidalgo<\/i>,\u00a0<i>Tears of the Sun<\/i>,\u00a0<i>Jason X<\/i>,\u00a0<i>Harvard Man<\/i>,\u00a0<i>Bless the Child<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0<i>The Incredible Hulk<\/i>. He also stars in the short film\u00a0<i>The Seed<\/i>, produced and directed by\u00a0Linkin Park\u2019s DJ\u00a0Joe Hahn. He has made\u00a0television\u00a0appearances in\u00a0<i>Star Trek: Enterprise<\/i>,\u00a0<i>Tracker<\/i>,\u00a0<i>Witchblade<\/i>,\u00a0<i>Blue Murder<\/i>,\u00a0<i>Relic Hunter<\/i>,\u00a0<i>Earth: Final Conflict<\/i>,\u00a0<i>Highlander: The Raven<\/i>, and\u00a0<i>La Femme Nikita<\/i>. He was a member of the repertory cast of the\u00a0A&amp;E Network\u00a0series\u00a0A Nero Wolfe Mystery\u00a0and\u00a0<i>Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>He did the voice and likeness of Sgt. Zach Hammond in\u00a0EA\u2019s\u00a0video game\u00a0<i>Dead Space<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Mensah played the character\u00a0Oenomaus\u00a0in\u00a0<i>Spartacus<\/i>\u00a0and was on the Spartacus Panel at Comic Con 2009 and 2011.\u00a0<sup id=\"cite_ref-3\" class=\"reference\"\/>He had a recurring role in the\u00a0fifth season\u00a0of\u00a0<i>True Blood<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>He is the voice of Predaking, the\u00a0dragon-like leader of the\u00a0Predacons\u00a0in\u00a0<i>Transformers: Prime<\/i>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if (d.getElementById(id)) return;js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;js.src = \"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&appId=1136575713042949&version=v2.3\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><script>(function(d, s, id) {var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if (d.getElementById(id)) return;js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;js.src = \"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.6\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghanaian-British actor, Peter Mensah\u2019s father is dead. Mr. Osei Mensah is said to have died on Tuesday, November 7, 2017 in Kumasi. He was the owner of\u00a0Mount Olivet School at Odeneho Kwadaso in Kumasi. Actor Mensah is best known for his roles in\u00a0Tears of the Sun,\u00a0Hidalgo,\u00a0300, and\u00a0Dead Space, and more recently on the\u00a0Starz\u00a0original series,\u00a0Spartacus: Blood [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":435779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ghanaian Hollywood Star loses his father - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/11\/10\/ghanaian-hollywood-star-loses-his-father\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Ghanaian Hollywood Star loses his father - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Ghanaian-British actor, Peter Mensah\u2019s father is dead. 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