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Full Name
  
Sandra Prinsloo

Role
  
Actress

Name
  
Sandra Prinsloo

Occupation
  
Actress


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Born
  
15 September 1947 (age 77) (
1947-09-15
)

Movies
  
The Gods Must Be Crazy, Target of an Assassin, Jewel of the Gods, Soweto Green, The Outcast

Similar People
  
Jamie Uys, Gray Hofmeyr, David Lister, Peter Collinson

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Sandra Prinsloo (born 15 September 1947), also known as Sandra Prinzlow, is a South African actress best known internationally for her role as Kate Thompson in the 1980 film The Gods Must Be Crazy. Prinsloo has also appeared in numerous South African television, film, and stage productions.

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Early life and career

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Prinsloo has stated that she never expected to become an actress.

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“I was a ballet dancer from a very early age and I remember that I occasionally ushered at the Breytenbach Theatre in Pretoria when I was in high school. That’s the first time I came into contact with professional stage acting, but I never thought I’d be an actress . . . . I think I was far too shy in those days to ever think I could be an actress. So it wasn’t like I had this great big burning passion to become an actress, not at all. I preferred an academic life, in a way. When I went to university, I thought that was going to be what I was going to do”.

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Prinsloo matriculated from the Afrikaanse Hoër Meisieskool and then completed her B.A. honours in drama at the University of Pretoria. Soon after, she became a member of the Performing Arts Council Transvaal acting company. “One night we were performing and it was as if something absolutely magical happened. It was as if a golden net was cast down. Everything was magical that evening and everybody felt it in the cast ... It was something enchanting that happens in the exchange of the energy between the audience and the actors”.

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Prinsloo has said that after that night, she realised that acting was her calling.

Film career

In addition to her well-known role in The Gods Must Be Crazy, Prinsloo has had major roles in Target of an Assassin (1979), Quest for Love (1988), Die Prince van Pretoria (1992), Soweto Green (1995), 'n Paw Paw fir My Darling (2015), Twee Grade van Moord (2016).

Television career

Prinsloo was in the original cast of Egoli: Place of Gold, South Africa's first soap opera. For many years, she hosted her own talk show, RaakPraat met Sandra, on South Africa television. She has also conducted a series of interviews with personalities and celebrities for South African TV, Sandra Op 'n Drafstap.

Prinsloo has acted in a number of South African television series and movies throughout her career, including Erfsondes (2012); Hartland (2011); Known Gods (2005); Saints, Sinners, and Settlers (1999); and Konings (1991) among others.

Theatre career

Prinsloo has performed in more than 100 different productions, often playing leading roles in works by South African and international dramatists.

In 1985, Prinsloo and fellow actor John Kani caused a South African audience walk-out when performing the play Miss Julie by August Strindberg. In the title role, Prinsloo played a white woman seducing a black man. The play marked the first on-stage occurrence of a black man kissing a white woman under the Apartheid regime.

The play's producer, Bobby Heaney, speculated that the walk-out was "part of a well planned campaign by conservative whites". Both Kani and Prinsloo had to be escorted into the parking lot after each performance of Miss Julie, as there was fear that the actors would be attacked by "enraged right-wingers". Prinsloo reportedly received obscene hate mail and both received death threats.

When interviewed in 2014 for the 21 Icons Project, a series of short films about South Africans "who have shaped the world around them", Prinsloo commented that "“I thought [the play] would cause a stir, but I didn’t think it would cause a minor revolution. People were very small-minded and I suppose you live in a bit of a fool’s paradise when you’re an actor".

The actors later performed the play at the Edinburgh Festival. In 1986, Heaney directed a TV movie of the play for Swedish and Finnish television, which starred both Prinsloo and Kani.

Prinsloo returned to the Edinburgh Festival in 2012 with The Sewing Machine, an English-language translation of the Afrikaans-language play, Die Naaimasjien. In the 2000s, Prinsloo appeared on the South African stage in productions of Oskar en die Pienk Tannie; Janneman; Nag, Ma (Night Mother); and Liefde, Anna.

In October 2015 Prinsloo will portray South African journalist, Jani Allan in Jani at the Aardklop festival.

Awards

In 2013, Prinsloo received the ACT Lifetime Achievement Award for Theatre. The awards are offered annually by the Arts and Culture Trust (ACT) of South Africa in order to "honour arts professionals whose extraordinary careers have had a profound and lasting impact on arts, culture and heritage, and whose lifetime achievements have contributed significantly to the enrichment of cultural life in South Africa".

In 2014, Prinsloo was the recipient of a national order by the South African government, the Order of Ikhamanga in silver, for those whose outstanding work has benefited South Africa. National orders are bestowed on South Africa's Freedom Day. The orders celebrate human achievement in various fields, honouring men and women who have left definitive footprints in both the struggle for liberation and in building a better South Africa.

Education

Prinsloo matriculated from the Afrikaanse Hoër Meisieskool. She holds the degree B.A. (Honours) from the University of Pretoria.

Filmography

Actress
2019
Die Testament (TV Series) as
Natasja Ludik / Natasja Ludick
- The Will (2022) - Natasja Ludik
- A Time to Love (2022) - Natasja Ludik
- What Now? (2022) - Natasja Ludik
- Goodbye my Love (2022) - Natasja Ludik
- Guess who is Leaving Dinner? (2022) - Natasja Ludik
- True Lies (2022) - Natasja Ludik
- Lies (2022) - Natasja Ludik
- Truth (2022) - Natasja Ludik
- Morphed (2022) - Natasja Ludik
- Smoke and Mirrors (2022) - Natasja Ludik
- Trust Me (2022) - Natasja Ludik
- The Clause (2022) - Natasja Ludik
- Necklaces (2022) - Natasja Ludik
- Ready Steady (2022) - Natasja Ludik
- Kisses in the moonlight (2022) - Natasja Ludik
- Out to Pasture (2022) - Natasja Ludik
- Family Reunion (2022) - Natasja Ludik
- Family First (2022) - Natasja Ludik
- Sunkissed (2022) - Natasja Ludik
- The Upper Hand (2022) - Natasja Ludik
- Familial Love (2022) - Natasja Ludik
- To the Brink (2022) - Natasja Ludik
- Difficult Truths (2022) - Natasja Ludik
- The Deceit of a Loving Father (2022) - Natasja Ludik
- Kidnapped (2022) - Natasja Ludik
- The Hit (2022) - Natasja Ludik
- The Value of a Loving Father (2022) - Natasja Ludik
- Dead Man walking (2022) - Natasja Ludik
- The Star Pupil (2022) - Natasja Ludik
- Who's Fooling Who? (2022) - Natasja Ludik
- Trapped (2022) - Natasja Ludik
- Siren Song (2022) - Natasja Ludik
- The Boy, the Dog and the Girl (2022) - Natasja Ludik
- Cat and Mouse Part 2 (2022) - Natasja Ludik
- Cat and Mouse Part 1 (2022) - Natasja Ludik
- Mama's Boy (2022) - Natasja Ludik
- Mother (2022) - Natasja Ludik
- Sick (2022) - Natasja Ludik
- The Deal (2022) - Natasja Ludik
- The Riddle (2022) - Natasja Ludik
- Captive (2022) - Natasja Ludik
2021
Angeliena as
Moira
2021
Beauty of Africa (Short) as
Moira
2021
Twee, een (TV Movie) as
Psychologist
2019
The Story of Racheltjie De Beer as
Jacoba
2019
Stille Nag (TV Movie) as
Fransie van der Hoven
2018
The Seagull as
Irene
2018
Mense Mense (TV Series) as
Mientjie van den Berg (2018)
2016
Snaaks Genoeg as
Johanna
2016
Twee Grade van Moord as
Aleksa Cloete
2016
Fluiters (TV Series) as
Anita Richter (2016)
2015
'n Man Soos My Pa as
Nakkie (2015)
2015
'n Pawpaw Vir My Darling as
Hannie van oorkant
2012
Erfsondes (TV Series) as
Lucille Spencer
2011
Hartland (TV Series) as
Maria
2005
Known Gods (TV Series) as
Pearl Jansen (2005)
2004
Skilpoppe (TV Movie) as
Helena Meyer
2001
Onder Draai die Duiwel Rond 2 (TV Series) as
Louise Kok (2001)
1999
Saints, Sinners and Settlers (TV Mini Series) as
Magda Joubert (1999)
1998
If This Be Treason (TV Movie) as
Ilse Fischer
1995
Soweto Green: This Is a 'Tree' Story as
Amanda Fluit
1992
No Hero as
Judge
1992
The Good Fascist as
Sarah Retief
1992
Konings (TV Series) as
Joey Roodt (1992)
1992
Die Prince van Pretoria as
Cordelia de la Rey van Rensburg
1989
In the Name of Blood as
Laura Redding
1989
Jewel of the Gods as
Ally Hartwell
1988
The Winter's Tale (TV Movie) as
Hermione
1988
Quest for Love as
Dorothy
1987
The Mantis Project (TV Movie) as
Carol Baartman
1986
Die Mannheim-Sage (TV Series) as
Deborah von Albein (1986)
1986
Miss Julie (TV Movie) as
Julie
1986
Die Seemeeu (TV Movie) as
Irina Arkadina
1984
The Mountain (TV Movie) as
Anne Hawkins
1984
Drie Susters (TV Movie) as
Masja
1984
Die Vuurtoring (TV Movie) as
Helena Kleynhans
1983
The Stronger (Short) as
Miss Y
1983
The Outcast (TV Movie) as
Hannah
1983
Hedda Gabler (TV Movie) as
Hedda Gabler
1983
Anna Meintjies (TV Movie)
1982
The Gordimer Stories as
Lerice (segment "Six Feet of the Country")
1982
Claws (TV Movie) as
Frances Williams
1982
Slampampersirkus (TV Series) as
Joan (1982)
1980
The Gods Must Be Crazy as
Kate Thompson
1980
Sam et Sally (TV Series) as
Elsa
- Le diamant (1980) - Elsa
1979
Pour tout l'or du Transvaal (TV Mini Series) as
Mrs. Hasenfeld
- Episode #1.3 (1979) - Mrs. Hasenfeld
- Episode #1.2 (1979) - Mrs. Hasenfeld
- Episode #1.1 (1979) - Mrs. Hasenfeld
1978
Die Seepsteen-bataljon (TV Series) as
Sue (1978)
1977
The Pawn (TV Mini Series)
1977
Bart Nel (TV Movie) as
Fransina Nel
1977
Target of an Assassin as
Sister Janet Hobart
1976
The Human Voice (TV Movie) as
Woman on phone
1974
Vreemde Wêreld as
Gisela Pelzer
1974
Deadly Jaws as
Pascale (as Sandra Prinzlow)
1973
Siener in die Suburbs as
Tiemie
1973
Die Bankrower as
Riki Gerber
1967
Liebesnächte in der Taiga as
Nadja
Director
2010
Sewe Sakke Sout (TV Series)
2007
Geraldina die Tweede (TV Series)
Producer
2010
Sewe Sakke Sout (TV Series) (co-producer)
Thanks
2021
Angeliena (special thanks)
Self
2021
Pioneer Jews of Southern Africa (Boerejode) (Documentary)
2018
Openbarings (TV Series) as
Self
- Israel Vision, Dogter van Sion (2019) - Self
- Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (2019) - Self
- Spade Reënsending (Blou Rokke) (2019) - Self
- Grace Gospel Church (2019) - Self
- Jehovah's Witnesses (2019) - Self
- Providence & Shincheonji (2019) - Self
- Christ Gospel Church (2019) - Self
- Rabboni & End Times Disciples Ministries (2019) - Self
- Seven Angels Ministry (2018) - Self
- Christ in Me International (2018) - Self
- Scientology (2018) - Self
- Desteni (2018) - Self
- Churchof Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints (2018) - Self
2018
Oppi Kassie (TV Series documentary) as
Self (2018)
2016
The Butterfly Revolution (Video short) as
Self
2004
Oh Schuks ... I'm Gatvol! as
Self (uncredited)
2003
'N Eeu Vlieg Verby (TV Movie documentary) as
Narrator (voice)
1982
Fugard's People (Documentary) as
Frieda Joubert in 'Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act' / Sophia in 'Dimetos' / Self

References

Sandra Prinsloo Wikipedia


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