
Known for
Acting
Born
November 30, 1943 (age 82)
Birthplace
New Brighton, Gqeberha, Eastern Cape, South Africa
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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in the former snake pit of the zoo, hence the name) in Port Elizabeth in 1965 and helped to create many plays that went unpublished but were performed to a resounding reception.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 worl...
TBA
2024
as Rafiki (voice)
2023
as Narrator/Self
2023
as Colonel Ulenga
2021
as Brick (voice)
2021
2021
2019
as Rafiki (voice)
2019
2019
as Colonel Ulenga
2018
as T'Chaka
2016
as King T'Chaka
2014
as Narrator
2012
as Marius
2012
2011
as Julius Twala Snr.
2011
as General Cominius
2010
as Old Gisani
2009
as Sipho, Director, Writer, Original Story
2009
as Oliver Tambo
2008
2008
as Stone
2001
as Rev. Peter Lekota
1999
as Bogle
1997
as Ben