Tinashe

Her full name is Tinashe Jorgensen Kachingwe. Tinashe is pronounced Tee-NAH-sha like Tina. Tinashe means "God is with us" in Shona, a Bantu language spoken in her father's home country of Zimbabwe.

Tinashe started out as a baby model and child actor; she played a dying character in the TV movie Cora Unashamed when she was 5 years old. Her mother Aimie, a physical therapist, and father Michael, a professor of theater, recognized her talents and did everything they could to support their daughter's creative pursuits.

When Tinashe was seven, her father moved the family from Chicago to Los Angeles to further her acting career. The roles soon clocked up, including a gig as a motion-capture model in the animated film The Polar Express (2004), a regular role in the Cartoon Network TV series Out of Jimmy's Head (2007–2008) and a recurring feature as Jake Harper's girlfriend on the sitcom Two and a Half Men (2008-09). "They really just took a chance on me and moved to LA.," Tinashe revealed. "Because they did that and never told me to this day that it was financially difficult, I give them almost all the credit to my self-confidence to succeed."