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Born and raised in Cape Town South Africa, Brandt immigrated with her family to Auckland, New Zealand in her late teens. Discovered by local casting directors, Brandt took on the role of "Naevia" in the Starz hits, "Spartacus: Blood and Sand" and "Spartacus: Gods of the Arena." Working with producers Steven S. D Knight and Sam Raimi, she captivated audiences with her performance and became one of the show's breakout stars.
She starred in the hit Netflix series, Lucifer which had a 6 year run, playing the fan favorite Vertigo/DC comic book character, Mazikeen. Lucifer went on the break binge records and was named the top binged show in 2021 by Forbes.
Brandt can next be seen opposite Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira in the 6 episode limited Walking Dead spin-off which airs in 2024. She is also starring opposite Jason Ritter, Anthony Carrigan and Chris Meloni in the adult animated comedy, Captain Fall which airs July 2023 on Netflix.
Lesley-Ann is now permanently based in Los Angeles.- Actress
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Born and raised in South Africa, Jodi Balfour spent her early youth working in Cape Town's theatre and television industry. She graduated with a BA (hons) in Theatre & Performance from The University of Cape Town and, after her family moved to the west coast of Canada, began working internationally. Jodi now lives in Los Angeles, California.- Charlbi Dean was born on 5 February 1990 in Cape Town, South Africa. She was an actress, known for Triangle of Sadness (2022), Spud (2010) and Don't Sleep (2017). She died on 29 August 2022 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
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Eva-Jane Willis was born in South Africa to Eileen Willis and film director Ian Gabriel. She moved with her mother and sister to live in North London at age 4. As a child, Eva-Jane trained part-time at Mountview Theatre School where she was spotted by casting agents for the BBC and landed her first minor role in the television series Grange Hill. She went on to gain more screen experience in various adverts and music videos before landing her first leading role in a feature film by iDream productions in 2007. She decided to accept the offer and defer her degree at London Metropolitan University. She completed the film and went on to accept another lead in the feature "Highgate Vampire", alongside actress Vanessa Kirby. However the film's development never progressed beyond the initial pilot. She decided to undertake a professional actor training and auditioned for Drama Centre London where she was offered one of the five female places on the three year BA Acting course. Whilst there she was nominated for the Carlton Hobbs Award and won the first prize Laurence Olivier Bursary Award, for her rendition of Celia in 'The Philanthropist' by Christopher Hampton, and Lady Percy in 'Henry IV: Part 2'.- Kim Engelbrecht was born in Cape Town, South Africa. She is an actress, known for Eye in the Sky (2015), Reyka (2021) and The Flash (2014).
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Scottish actor Nicholas Ralph grew up in Nairn in the Highlands. He graduated from the prestigious Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (formally RSAMD) in 2017. He made his screen debut in 'All Creatures Great and Small' playing protagonist James Herriot. He can also be seen in 'The Devils Light' and 'The Most Reluctant Convert'.- Alex McGregor was born in Cape Town, South Africa. She is an actress, known for Vagrant Queen (2020), Slumber Party Massacre (2021) and Blood Drive (2017).
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Though a native of South Africa, Cecil Kellaway spent many years as an actor, author and director in Australian live theatre until he tried his luck in Hollywood in the 1930s. Finding he could get only gangster bit parts, he got discouraged and returned to Australia. Then William Wyler called and offered him a part in Wuthering Heights (1939). From then on Kellaway was always in demand when the part called for a twinkling, silver-haired leprechaun.- Actress
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Jessica Sutton stars in the Freeform drama series Motherland: Fort Salem, from Claws creator Eliot Laurence and Gary Sanchez Productions. She could recently be seen opposite Joey King in the hit Netflix feature The Kissing Booth, as well as Netflix's Inside Man: Most Wanted and Sony's Escape Room. Most recently, she completed production on the feature Rogue, opposite Megan Fox. Jessica got her start in National Geographic's four part mini-series Saints & Strangers.- Director
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Oliver Hermanus was born on 26 May 1983 in Cape Town, South Africa. He is a director and writer, known for Moffie (2019), Beauty (2011) and Shirley Adams (2009).- Actress
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Hazel Brooks was born on 8 September 1924 in Cape Town, South Africa. She was an actress, known for Body and Soul (1947), Sleep, My Love (1948) and The Basketball Fix (1951). She was married to Cedric Gibbons and Dr. Rex Ross. She died on 18 September 2002 in Bel-Air, California, USA.- Frances Sholto-Douglas is a South African actress born in Cape Town. She trained in acting and musical theatre at the Cape Academy of Performing Arts before attending the University of Cape Town, where she procured an Honours Degree cum laude in Theatre and Performance. She has gained traction through her work in films and television shows such as The Kissing Booth 2 (2020), Black Mirror (2011), and Samson (2018). She has likewise acted in plays such as Zakes Mda's Ways of Dying directed by Lara Foot and Esiseleni Sedini directed by Lwanda Sindaphi. Frances has trained in opera part-time since 2015.
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Versatile character actor Sean Cameron Michael is one of South Africa's most prolific and successful exports to Hollywood. Having consistently worked during the past four decades on over 130 TV, film and theater productions, he recently received a 2022 SAFTA (South African Oscars) nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Feature Film for his work on the multi-award winning Fried Barry (2020).
Michael's breakout performance was back in 2008 as controversial French UN worker Charles Solenz in Fox's multi-Emmy and Golden Globe nominated 24 feature 24: Redemption (2008). Over 12 million viewers tuned in for the premiere.
The actor has continually held his own opposite industry heavyweights including the late Oscar-winner William Hurt in BBC Films' award-winning The Challenger Disaster (2013) and Mads Mikkelsen in Universal's western The Salvation (2014). The film premiered at Cannes to a ten minute standing ovation.
Michael is perhaps best known for playing series regular Richard Guthrie in two season's of Michael Bay's hit pirate series Black Sails (2014). He was considered for an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, as well as a SAG-Aftra award, two years in a row for his portrayal.
After being awarded an extraordinary ability green card in 2015, Michael relocated to Los Angeles and became a permanent US resident. Since then he has guest starred opposite Gary Sinise in Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders (2016) (CBS), Of Kings and Prophets (2016) (ABC), as well as the lead villain in CBS' Scorpion (2014) opposite Robert Patrick.
Michael won Best Performance by an Actor at the Boston Sci-fi Film Festival as the lead in Broken Darkness (2017). He recurred on the Mark Wahlberg produced Shooter (2016), Blood Drive (2017) and MacGyver (2016), whilst on the big screen he starred in Universal's reboot of The Mummy (2017) (opposite Tom Cruise and Russell Crowe) grossing over $450M worldwide. Michael also narrated Nicholas Sparks ' ( The Notebook (2004), Message in a Bottle (1999) ) #1 New York Times bestselling audio-book Every Breath.
In 2019 he played the lead in the multi award-winning political thriller The Last Victims (2019) which premiered at PAFF in Los Angeles. He went on to win Best Actor at the South Film and Arts Festival in Chile. Michael then recurred on Deep State (2018), Vagrant Queen (2020) and played a supporting role in the Netflix Original The Last Days of American Crime (2020) opposite Michael Pitt and Edgar Ramirez.
In 2020 he starred in Triggered (2020) (Samuel Goldwyn Films) and recurred on History's The Cars That Made the World (2020).
Recent work includes Catch Me a Killer (2024), Bradley Cooper's FDR (2023) and Leonardo DiCaprio's Theodore Roosevelt (2022). He was a series regular on Die Byl (2016) and Ludik (2022), recurred opposite David Tennant on Around the World in 80 Days (2021) and won Best Supporting Actor for Stay Safe (2021) .
The actor will next be seen in "Masinga: The Calling", "BoogieHeads", Spiral and the 80s remake of Street Trash . Michael is also attached as a lead in Broken Brothers, the A.S.T. film franchise and Bloody Proposal. He serves as a screenwriter and exec producer on the Netflix Original feature Collision (2022).
Michael has been a proud SAG-Aftra member and judge for the Television Academy of Arts & Sciences (Emmys) and the International Emmy Awards for the past ten years.- Actor
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Born in 1949, Antony Sher was raised in South Africa before going to London to study at the Webber-Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art between 1969 and 1971. After performing for the Gay Sweatshop theatrical group in "Thinking Straight" (1975), "The Fork" (1976), and "Stone" (1976), he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1982. Three years later, his performance in the title role of "Richard III" won him a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor and, in 1997, he won another Laurence Olivier Award for "Stanley".
Although he spent more time onstage, Sher appeared in a number of films and TV series, including The History Man (1981), Shadey (1985), The Young Poisoner's Handbook (1995) and Mr. Toad's Wild Ride (1996). He gave a charming performance as Benjamin Disraeli in Mrs. Brown (1997), and played "Dr. Moth" in Shakespeare in Love (1998).
Sher was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2000.- Jenny Runacre was born on August 18, 1946 in Capetown, South Africa, one of four girls in the family. The family moved to London when she was five, where Runacre developed an early love of movies, spending much time watching them in the local cinemas. She attended The Actor's Workshop in Notting Hill Gate, training in the Stanislavski System (also known as method acting).
While attending the Actor's Workshop, Runacre was approached by fellow student (and future agent) Tom Busby with an intriguing offer. Busby was working as a runner for an American film production that was seeking fledgling English actresses to play opposite John Cassavetes in Husbands (1970), a movie to be shot the following year in London. The young actress was interested, underwent a grueling day of auditioning with Cassavetes, Ben Gazzara and Peter Falk, and was told six weeks later, rather to her surprise, that she was being offered the part of Mary Tynan in the movie. Cassavetes demanded a great deal from his performers, but Runacre rose to the occasion and delivered an intense, remarkable performance.
Runacre spent six months traveling in Morocco after shooting "Husbands", and soon after her return joined the original London cast of "Oh! Calcutta!", first playing at The Roundhouse and later at the Royalty Theatre. After a year, Runacre left the cast and worked in a series of notable films featuring some of the great directors of the time, delivering fine performances in Pier Paolo Pasolini's The Canterbury Tales (1972), John Huston's The MacKintosh Man (1973), Robert Fuest's The Final Programme (1973), Michelangelo Antonioni's The Passenger (1975), and Derek Jarman's Jubilee (1978) (in which she starred as Elizabeth I and "Bod"). She was active in the theatre as well, and worked often in British television, perhaps the most notable of which was Brideshead Revisited (1981), in which Runacre plays Brenda Champion, Julia's rival for Rex's affection.
In the 1990s Runacre returned to University, obtaining a Master's in Fine Art Practice at Central Saint Martin's College of Art and Design in London. Her career has since focused on the art world; she is currently a lecturer in residence, and has worked in installation art and experimental filmmaking. She continues to be involved in film and theatre, both directing and acting, when the right project presents itself. - Actor
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Ian Hunter was born in the Kenilworth area of Cape Town, South Africa where he spent his childhood. In his teen years he and his parents returned to the family origins in England to live. Sometime between that arrival and the early years of World War I, Hunter began exploring acting, then in 1917 - and being only 17 - he joined the army to serve in France for the last year of the conflict still remaining. Within two years he did indeed make his stage-acting debut. Hunter would never forget the stage was the thing when the lure of movie making called - he would always return through his career. With a jovial face perpetually on the verge of smiling and a friendly and mildly English accent, Hunter had good guy lead written all over him. He decided to sample the relatively young British silent film industry by taking a part in Not for Sale (1924) for British director W.P. Kellino who had started out writing and acting for the theater. Hunter then made his first trip to the U.S. - Broadway, not Hollywood - because Basil Dean, well known British actor, director, and producer, was producing Sheridan's "The School for Scandal" at the Knickerbocker Theater - unfortunately folding after one performance. It was a more concerted effort with film the next year back in Britain, again with Kellino. He then met up-and-coming mystery and suspense director Alfred Hitchcock in 1927. He did Hitch's The Ring (1927) - about the boxing game, not suspense - and stayed for the director's Downhill (1927). And with a few more films into the next year he was back with Hitchcock once more for Easy Virtue (1927), the Noël Coward play. By late 1928 he returned to Broadway for only a month's run in the original comedy "Olympia" but stayed on in the United States via his first connection with Hollywood. The film was Syncopation (1929), his first sound film and that for RKO, that is, one of the early mono efforts, sound mix with the usual silent acting. As if restless to keep ever cycling back and forth across the Atlantic - fairly typical of Hunter's career - he returned to London for Dean's mono thriller Escape! (1930). There was an interval of fifteen films in all before Hunter returned to Hollywood and by then he was well established as a leading man. With The Girl from 10th Avenue (1935) with Bette Davis, Hunter made his connection with Warner Bros. But before settling in with them through much of the 1930s, he did three pictures in succession with another gifted and promising British director, Michael Powell. He then began the films he is most remembered from Hollywood's Golden Era. Although a small part, he is completely engaging and in command as the Duke in the Shakespearean extravaganza of Austrian theater master Max Reinhardt, A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) for Warner Bros. It marked the start of a string of nearly thirty films for WB. Among the best remembered was his jovial King Richard in the rollicking The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938). Hunter was playing the field as well - he was at Twentieth Century as everybody's favorite father-hero - including Shirley Temple - in the The Little Princess (1939). And he was the unforgettable benign guardian angel-like Cambreau in Loew's Strange Cargo (1940) with Clark Gable. He was staying regularly busy in Hollywood until into 1942 when he returned to Britain to serve in the war effort. After the war Hunter stayed on in London, making films and doing stage work. He appeared once more on Broadway in 1948 and made Edward, My Son (1949) for George Cukor. Although there was some American playhouse theater in the mid-1950s, Hunter was bound to England, working once more for Powell in 1961 before retiring in the middle of that decade after nearly a hundred outings before the camera.- Actor
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Jonny Pasvolsky was born in Cape Town, South Africa. He is an actor, known for Westworld (2016), Mortdecai (2015) and Rising Wolf (2021).- Prue Leith is an expert on gastronomy and one of the Country's foremost authorities on all things culinary. She is one of the UK's most renowned restaurateurs and caterers, a well known TV cook, broadcaster and cookery writer. She is also known for her formidable business acumen as a past winner of The Veuve Clicquot Business Woman of the Year. She has in the past been the cookery correspondent for The Daily Mail, Sunday Express, and The Guardian.
She was born 18th February 1940 in South Africa, though she has spent most of her working life in London. In 1960, she started a business supplying high quality business lunches, which grew to become Leith's Good Food, the party and event caterer. In 1969, she opened Leith's, her famous Michelin starred restaurant. In 1975 she founded Leiths School of Food and Wine which trains amateur and professional chefs.
She is a former director of British Rail, Safeway, Whitbread, Woolworths and the Halifax bank and a non-executive director of Orient Express Hotels Ltd.
She is former Chair of the Board of Governors of Ashridge Management College, the Restaurants Association of Great Britain, the R.S.A. (Royal Society of Arts) and U.K. Skills.
Prue has been seen on television as one of the judges on the BBC's successful series 'Great British Menu' followed by 'Best Of British'.
She has had an active career in charity and not-for-profit businesses, helping to found The British Food Trust (which promotes good food), Focus on Food (which teaches schoolchildren to cook), The Hoxton Apprentice (which trains long term unemployed people to be waiters and chefs), 3Es Enterprises (which turns around failing state schools).
She is also Chairman of the school Food Trust founded in 2007. The Trust oversees the quality of the food bought, cooked and served in our schools.
Prue is represented in London by Useful Talent. - Moira Lister was born in South Africa and made her stage debut at age 6 with the University Players of Johannesburg in "The Vikings of Helgeland." She appeared on the London stage at age 14 and started working in films in 1943. She was always popular, and she was usually cast as 'posh' ladies.
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South African actor Stelio Savante is a multilingual SAG award nominee & US citizen with over 140 international credits over the last four decades. A steady product of leading, large supporting, & recurring roles in television, & international theatrically released features that have accumulated almost $400million in world-wide box office, & leading roles in billion dollar grossing video game franchises. Film critic Richard Propes writes "...I've long reviewed the work of the wonderful Stelio Savante and I must say that Savante is absolutely stellar as Bedros in Pursuit Of Freedom..."
A popular choice of critically acclaimed directors & producers, he stars directly opposite Anne Heche in her last performance on film, STARZ's theatrically released noir What Remains (2022). Produced by Ralph Winter & directed by Nathan Scoggins, What Remains premiered at the Austin film festival & stars Kellan Lutz & Cress Williams. Also starring in Netflix's animated series, Captain Fall (2023), Savante returned to comedy starring opposite Academy Award nominee Frank Langella, Bobby Cannavale & Ashley Benson in Lionsgate's Angry Neighbors (2022) produced by Academy Award nominee Kerry Orent. Film critic Jackie K. Cooper writes "Stelio Savante is a favorite actor of mine, he's always good in everything he does."
He starred as South African journalist & Mossad agent 'Pierre Barthes' opposite Jim Caviezel & Claudia Karvan in the MGM distributed Middle-Eastern action thriller Infidel (2019) by Toronto Film Festival People's Choice Award winner director Cyrus Nowrasteh who states: "Stelio is a fantastic actor & creative partner. Look for more great things from him." Savante is also starring opposite Academy Award nominee Matt Dillon & as Portuguese coffee plantation Mayor Alvares in David L. Cunningham 's Running for Grace (2018) on Netflix.
Also opposite Domenick Lombardozzi, Annabella Sciorra, & Jennifer Esposito in Esposito's directorial debut Fresh Kills (2023) which premiered at the Tribeca film festival in 2023. And in the psychological thriller Nefarious (2023) starring opposite Sean Patrick Flanery & Jordan Belfi. In 2021 he starred as Moses in Dallas Jenkins Biblical hit series, The Chosen (2019) on Netflix & Peacock TV. Sarah D. Bunting, writes "...Stelio is reminiscent of James Gandolfini...I liked a certain gravitas-emblance that I saw in Stelio...".
Originally of Greek, Italian, British, Ashkenazi, & Anatolian descent, he has worked on four continents for some of the top filmmakers including J.J. Abrams, Ron Howard, Academy Award winner Juan José Campanella, Academy Award nominee Ivan Reitman, Cyrus Nowrasteh, BAFTA award winner Peter Greenaway, Independent Spirit Award winner & Sundance Grand Jury Prize nominee Przemyslaw Reut, Mark Duplass & Jay Duplass, Academy Award nominee Joan Stein Schimke, Academy Award winner Tyler Perry, Dallas Jenkins, Jon Iver Helgaker, & Jonas Torgersen.
Early credits include a small guest star role as Gaetano in David Chase's The Sopranos (1999) after a minor speaking role opposite Academy Award winner Russell Crowe in Ron Howard's A Beautiful Mind (2001). His breakthrough lead role came in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) directed by Juan José Campanella & starring directly opposite Mariska Hargitay, Chris Meloni, Academy Award nominee Bradley Cooper & Academy Award nominee Angela Lansbury, as the chilling yet engaging fundamentalist Milan Zergin. Also, a coveted recurring role on Ugly Betty (2006) produced by Academy Award nominee Salma Hayek & starring directly opposite Vanessa Williams & Rebecca Romijn, becoming South Africa's first male SAG Award nominee (Ensemble Comedy Performance) in 2007. Followed by a supporting role opposite Eddie Izzard, Luke Wilson, & Academy Award nominee Uma Thurman in Twentieth Century Fox's My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006) directed by Ivan Reitman . And an ensemble lead in Sony's sci-fi franchised, Starship Troopers 3: Marauder (2008) produced by Academy Award nominee David Lancaster, directed by Edward Neumeier. Additionally, lead & supporting roles in the award-winning films A Million Colours (2011), Apartment 407 (2016), Blood in the Water (2016), No Postage Necessary (2017), Rapid Eye Movement (2019), The Cleaning Lady (2018), What If... (2010), Where the Road Runs Out (2014), and Pursuit of Freedom (2022).
Recurring & guest star roles including in NBC's My Own Worst Enemy: Conspiracy Theory (2008), in Mark Duplass & Jay Duplass' comedic series Togetherness (2015) for HBO, as pioneer David Sarnoff in the Nat-Geo mini-series American Genius (2015), in J.J. Abrams' Undercovers (2010) & Person of Interest (2011). Also starring directly opposite Academy Award nominee Marianne Jean-Baptiste & Ivana Milicevic in Without a Trace (2002), & opposite Annabella Sciorra in Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001). Additional guest star roles starring in Breakout Kings (2011), NCIS (2003), The Suite Life on Deck (2008), Arrested Development (2003) & recurring in Tyler Perry's The Haves and the Have Nots (2013) . Lauded by The Examiner's Diane Zoller Ciatto for his recurring portrayal as Joe 'The Boss' Masseria in AMC's The Making of the Mob (2015). ET's Nischelle Turner applauded his understatedly powerful turn as Howard Boston opposite Brian White in TV One's Media (2017). Regarding Savante's role in Pronoia (2017), Pop Matters critic Paul Risker states: "Savante has a strong sense of presence as a silent, almost introverted character." South African film critic Stephen Aspeling states: "We're entranced by the mysterious man at the center of Pronoia, Stelio Savante. His mercurial performance keeps us guessing, unsettled and on edge, waiting for him to explode with answers". As part of the lead cast of Peter Greenaway's Golden Bear nominated international co production Eisenstein in Guanajuato (2015), Stelio was nominated for a Teddy Award at Berlin film festival.
Frequently volunteers his time simultaneously performing & producing Sarah Tuft's "110 Stories" for several charities. Starring in several roles at The Geffen Playhouse, NYU Skirball, The Public Theatre, Ebony Rep, & the William Alderson Studio Theatre directly opposite the following fellow cast: Edie Falco, Cynthia Nixon, Academy Award nominee John Hawkes, Academy Award nominee Samuel L. Jackson, Academy Award winner Melissa Leo, Jeremy Piven, Academy Award winner Mira Sorvino, Academy Award winner Susan Sarandon, Academy Award nominee Kathleen Turner, John Turturro, & Diane Venora.
His two decades of regional & Off-Broadway stage credits include favorable reviews from the NY Times. A student of Robert X. Modica, Deborah Kampmeier, William Alderson, Don Bloomfield, & Diane Venora, his training is rooted in theater & improvisation but influenced by the eras of French New Wave & Italian Neo-Realism. Was acknowledged by Academy Award winner Al Pacino, Academy Award winner F. Murray Abraham & several NY theater critics for his lead performance in Mortal Coils, directed by the Actor's Studio's Ed Setrakian at the Mint Theater.
A popular voice over artist, he voices the character of Ajax in Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 (2018) and in Call of Duty: Mobile (2022). Was inducted into the Alpha Psi Omega honors society for his achievement in American collegiate theater. Served on the actor's panel of the 2014 San Diego film festival with Josh Duhamel, Academy Award nominee Tom Berenger & Dennis Haysbert, hosted by Variety & film critic Jeffrey Lyons. Is a board member of the River Street Theater Company; alongside Robert Carnegie, Academy Award nominee Jeff Goldblum, Academy Award nominee David Mamet, Academy Award winner Jon Voight & president, William Alderson.- In the 1950s, Bill Kerr was one of Tony Hancock's regular sidekicks in the popular radio series 'Hancock's Half Hour'. In the first series he was smarter than Tony, but as the series progressed he became more and more stupid and childlike, regularly calling Tony 'Tubb'. Despite remaining on the radio series throughout its six year run, when the TV series began he was not required.
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Francis is a South African born actor living and working from Cape Town. Born the youngest of four to a German/Dutch mother and English South African father, Francis was schooled in two of Cape Town's Rudolf Steiner schools before attending the University of Cape Town, where he received his four year Bachelors degree in acting 'cum laude' in 2010. Beginning his career in theatre, Francis has played 4 seasons of Shakespeare at Maynardville open air theatre in Cape Town.
He first came to international attention in the 2010 Bollywood action film Crook: It's Good to Be Bad where he played the lead antagonist opposite Emraan Hashmi
Francis appears as Jack Cleary in fellow South African and Academy Award Winner Gavin Hood's thriller Eye in the Sky, opposite Alan Rickman, Helen Mirren, Aaron Paul and Iain Glen, which opened Toronto International Film Festival in September 2015. Television includes Netflix/ BBC's The Crown, Amazon's The Widow. Francis will play John Rawlins in the upcoming "Ulysses Grant" mini series on The History Channel.
Francis recently appeared in first commercial for Rolls Royce in 40 years, directed by Lena Heady of HBO's Game of Thrones.
A keen improviser, Francis is a member of "The Longshots" improvised theatre troupe and performs regularly in Cape Town. He recently performed his first solo theatre production in Nocturne by Adam Rapp to critical acclaim.
Francis is represented by Samantha Bernhardi Artists Management and Moonyeenn Lee Associates.
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Sue Kiel was born on 15 June 1950 in Cape Town, South Africa. She is an actress, known for Repo Man (1984), Straight to Hell (1987) and Survivor (1987).- Norma West was born on 19 November 1943 in Cape Town, South Africa. She is an actress, known for The Elusive Pimpernel (1969), The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1991) and The Prisoner (1967).
- Karl Thaning is a South African-born actor. He started studying law at university in South Africa, but left to pursue acting, going on to study Theatre Arts through a scholarship at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. Since graduating he returned home and acts in international and local productions in film and television.