Nationality South African Occupation Actor, Poet Education University of Pretoria TV shows Donkerland | Alma mater University of Pretoria Years active 1992-present Books Orphaned latitudes | |
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Born 20 April 1966 (age 50) ( 1966-04-20 ) Pretoria, South Africa Height 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)(6' 3") Nominations Golden Horn Award for Best Actor in a TV Drama Movies Chander Pahar, The Young Black Stallion, Paljas, The Piano Player, Layla Fourie Similar Kamaleshwar Mukherjee, Simon Wincer, Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, Indraadip Dasgupta, Katinka Heyns | ||
Gérard Rudolf is a South African Film actor and Poet. He started his career in 1992 with Arende II TV Series.
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Biography
Gérard Rudolf was born in Pretoria, South Africa on 20 April 1966. After completing high school in 1983 he did two years compulsory military service. In 1987 he joined the Drama school at the University of Pretoria where he graduated in 1989.
He then joined the CAPAB drama company for a year performing on stage in Shakespeare plays, comedies and dramas. He left the company in 1991 to start his own theater company called Makeshift Moon, specializing in original South African works. He received some notoriety as a gutsy actor and outspoken opponent to the Apartheid regime at the time, he also campaigned against forced military conscription.
It was also in 1991 that he started developing an interest in film and appeared in numerous leads and supports over the next decade. In 1998 he became the head of drama at CityVarsity in Cape Town until 2002.
He has worked with prolific actors such as Dennis Hopper(The Piano Player), Peter Weller(Styx) and Bryan Brown(Styx).
He left Cape Town and moved to The United Kingdom in 2002. But decided to move back to South Africa in 2010. He currently continues his acting and directing career in films, and also directs theater.
He is a poet, and published his first collection of poetic writings in 2009, named "Orphaned Latitudes"
He is a well regarded photographer and his photographs of Johannesburg can be viewed on his Instagram page at gerard.rudolf, or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/grudolfpics
His mother tongue is Afrikaans, but he is also fluent in English. He currently lives is Johannesburg.
Filmography
Selected Filmography :