Packson Ngugi

{{short description|Kenyan actor}}

{{BLP sources|date=March 2010}}

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| name = Packson Ngugi

| nationality = Kenyan

| occupation = actor}}

Packson Ngugi is a Kenyan actor.[https://books.google.com/books?id=rAUbyu1wRCsC&dq=Packson+Ngugi&pg=PA296 Black African literature in English, 1997-1999] By Bernth Lindfors (ref to interview in Daily Nation) He has played roles in plays[https://books.google.com/books?id=G0sgAQAAIAAJ&q=Packson+Ngugi Kanzala: a play] By Kivutha Kibwana[https://books.google.com/books?id=4rJIAAAAYAAJ&q=Packson+Ngugi The Weekly review] - Page 44 and movies, and appeared in Kenyan TV commercials. He hosted a TV show, Omo Pick A Box, in the late 1990s.

He played a mortuary attendant in the movie The Constant Gardener.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mTIGPAAACAAJ&q=Packson+Ngugi|title=The Constant Gardener: A Screenplay|last=Caine|first=Jeffrey|date=2004|publisher=Focus Features|language=en}} He is the founder of [http://www.zakikwetu.co.ke Za kikwetu] Productions ltd, a Casting Agency that also houses a Recording Studio for Radio commercials and documentaries.{{Citation needed|date=February 2009}}

In the mid 1990s, Ngugi joined actors like the late Joni Nderitu, Paul Onsongo and Ben Mutua Jonathan Muriithi (BMJ Muriithi), in holding demonstrations on the streets of Nairobi to protest the planned acquisition of Kenya National Theatre by the adjacent Norfolk Hotel, an action that made the Kenyan government rescind its decision.{{Citation needed|date=February 2009}}