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Bonsile John Kani (born 1943) is a South African actor, director and playwright. He was born in New Brighton, South Africa. Kani joined The Serpent Players (a group of actors whose first performance was in the former snake pit of the zoo, hence the name) in Port Elizabeth in 1965 and helped to create many plays that went unpublished but were performed to a resounding reception. These were followed by the more famous Sizwe Banzi is Dead and The Island, co-written with Athol Fugard and Winston Ntshona, in the early 1970s. He also received an Olivier nomination for his role in My Children My Africa! Kani's work has been widely performed around the world, including New York, where he and Winston Ntshona won a Tony Award in 1975 for Sizwe Banzi Is Dead and The Island. These two plays were presented in repertory at the Edison Theatre for a total of 52 performances. Nothing but the Truth (2002) was his debut as sole playwright and was first performed in the Market Theatre in Johannesburg. This play takes place in post-apartheid South Africa and does not concern the conflicts between whites and blacks, but the rift between blacks who stayed in South Africa to fight apartheid, and those who left only to return when the hated regime folded. It won the 2003 Fleur du Cap Awards for best actor and best new South African play. In the same year he was also awarded a special Obie award for his extraordinary contribution to theatre in the USA. Kani is executive trustee of the Market Theatre Foundation, founder and director of the Market Theatre Laboratory and chairman of the National Arts Council of SA.
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Filmography (Movies)
Mufasa: The Lion King
Character:Rafiki (voice)
Release Date:18/12/2024
Beyond the Light Barrier
Character:Narrator/Self
Release Date:01/10/2023
Murder Mystery 2
Character:Colonel Ulenga
Release Date:28/03/2023
Seal Team
Character:Brick (voice)
Release Date:28/10/2021
The Lion King
Character:Rafiki (voice)
Release Date:12/07/2019
The Space: Theatre of Survival
Character:
Release Date:07/06/2019
Murder Mystery
Character:Colonel Ulenga
Release Date:25/05/2019
Black Panther
Character:T'Chaka
Release Date:13/02/2018
Captain America: Civil War
Character:King T'Chaka
Release Date:27/04/2016
1994: The Bloody Miracle
Character:Narrator
Release Date:01/01/2014
Jail Caesar
Character:Marius
Release Date:28/06/2012
Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard
Character:Self
Release Date:28/05/2012
How to Steal 2 Million
Character:Julius Twala Snr.
Release Date:02/09/2011
Coriolanus
Character:General Cominius
Release Date:14/02/2011
White Lion
Character:Old Gisani
Release Date:19/02/2010
Nothing But The Truth
Character:Sipho
Release Date:01/11/2009
Endgame
Character:Oliver Tambo
Release Date:18/01/2009
The Bird Can't Fly
Character:Stone
Release Date:03/01/2008
Final Solution
Character:Rev. Peter Lekota
Release Date:01/08/2001
The Tichborne Claimant
Character:Bogle
Release Date:12/11/1999
Kini & Adams
Character:Ben
Release Date:10/05/1997
The Ghost and the Darkness
Character:Samuel
Release Date:11/10/1996
Soweto Green
Character:Dr. Curtis
Release Date:01/01/1995
In Darkest Hollywood: Cinema and Apartheid
Character:Self
Release Date:18/02/1994
Sarafina!
Character:School Principal
Release Date:18/09/1992
The Native Who Caused All the Trouble
Character:
Release Date:11/05/1990
Othello
Character:Othello
Release Date:27/12/1989
A Dry White Season
Character:Julius
Release Date:20/09/1989
Options
Character:Jonas
Release Date:27/05/1989
Saturday Night at the Palace
Character:
Release Date:12/12/1987
An African Dream
Character:Khatana
Release Date:01/01/1987
Miss Julie
Character:John
Release Date:29/05/1986
'Master Harold'... and the Boys
Character:Willie
Release Date:01/01/1985
The Grass Is Singing
Character:Moses
Release Date:30/08/1981
A Sizwe Bansi Workshop
Character:Himself
Release Date:01/01/1981
Marigolds in August
Character:Melton
Release Date:31/12/1980
Victims of Apartheid
Character:George O'Brien
Release Date:24/10/1978
The Wild Geese
Character:Sgt. Jesse Blake
Release Date:28/06/1978
Sizwe Bansi is Dead
Character:Styles/Buntu
Release Date:13/03/1974
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