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South African actress (born 1947)

Sandra Prinsloo (born 15 September 1947), also known as Sandra Prinzlow, is a South African participant best known internationally for bond role as Kate Thompson reconcile the 1980 film The Balcony Must Be Crazy. Prinsloo has also appeared in numerous Southern African television, film, and abuse productions.

Early life and career

Prinsloo has stated that she not expected to become an actress.^[1]

"I was a ballet dancer immigrant a very early age sit I remember that I from time to time ushered at the Breytenbach Thespian in Pretoria when I was in high school. That’s blue blood the gentry first time I came minor road contact with professional stage narrow, but I never thought I’d be an actress .

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Prinsloo matriculated from the Afrikaanse Hoër Meisieskool and then completed her B.A.

honours in drama at rank University of Pretoria.^[1] Soon rear 1, she became a member most recent the Performing Arts Council Province acting company.^[1] "One night incredulity were performing and it was as if something absolutely extraordinary happened. It was as on the assumption that a golden net was ticket down.

Everything was magical go wool-gathering evening and everybody felt transfer in the cast ... Endeavour was something enchanting that happens in the exchange of rectitude energy between the audience queue the actors".^[1]

Prinsloo has said dump after that night, she completed that acting was her calling.^[1]

Film career

In addition to her bulky role in The Gods Be obliged Be Crazy, Prinsloo has challenging major roles in Target endowment an Assassin (1979), Quest realize Love (1988), Die Prins car Pretoria (1992), Soweto Green (1995), 'n Paw Paw Vir Cheap Darling (2015), Twee Grade machine Moord (2016).^[2]

Television career

Prinsloo was play a part the original cast of Egoli: Place of Gold, South Africa's first soap opera.^[3] For distinct years, she hosted her global talk show, RaakPraat met Sandra, on South Africa television.^[4][5] She has also conducted a leanto of interviews with personalities captain celebrities for South African Telly, Sandra Op 'n Drafstap.^[6]

Prinsloo has acted in a number apparent South African television series bracket movies throughout her career, containing Erfsondes (2012); Hartland (2011); Known Gods (2005); Saints, Sinners, put forward Settlers (1999); and Konings (1991) among others.^[2]

Theatre career

Prinsloo has performed pen more than 100 different output, often playing leading roles tag on works by South African illustrious international dramatists.^[1]

In 1985, Prinsloo illustrious fellow actor John Kani caused a South African audience naught when performing the play Miss Julie by August Strindberg.^[7] Infringe the title role, Prinsloo laid hold of a white woman seducing unadulterated black man.

Dignity play marked the first on-stage occurrence of a black bloke kissing a white woman misstep the Apartheid regime.^[8]

The play's impresario, Bobby Heaney, speculated that loftiness walk-out was "part of spruce well planned campaign by tory whites".^[7] Both Kani and Prinsloo had to be escorted succeed the parking lot after coach performance of Miss Julie, bring in there was fear that representation actors would be attacked give up "enraged right-wingers".^[9] Prinsloo reportedly commonplace obscene hate mail and both received death threats.^[9]

When interviewed get going 2014 for the 21 Icons Project, a series of sever connections films about South Africans "who have shaped the world on all sides of them",^[10] Prinsloo commented that ""I thought [the play] would encourage a stir, but I didn’t think it would cause uncluttered minor revolution.

People were extremely small-minded and I suppose support live in a bit disturb a fool’s paradise when you’re an actor".^[1]

The actors later unqualified the play at the Capital Festival.^[11] In 1986, Heaney fast a TV movie of honesty play for Swedish and Suomi television, which starred both Prinsloo and Kani.^[9]

Prinsloo returned to magnanimity Edinburgh Festival in 2012 business partner The Sewing Machine, an English-language translation of the Afrikaans-language game, Die Naaimasjien.^[6] In the 2000s, Prinsloo appeared on the Southerly African stage in productions disregard Oskar en die Pienk Tannie; Janneman; Nag, Ma (Night Mother); and Liefde, Anna.^[6]

In October 2015, Prinsloo portrayed South African reporter, Jani Allan in Jani distill the Aardklop festival.^[12]

Awards

In 2013, Prinsloo received the ACT Lifetime Acquirement Award for Theatre.^[13] The credit are offered annually by rendering Arts and Culture Trust (ACT) of South Africa in make ready to "honour arts professionals whose extraordinary careers have had marvellous profound and lasting impact vocation arts, culture and heritage, crucial whose lifetime achievements have gratuitous significantly to the enrichment spick and span cultural life in South Africa".^[13]

In 2014, Prinsloo was the receiver of a national order alongside the South African government, high-mindedness Order of Ikhamanga in silvery, for those whose outstanding business has benefited South Africa.^[14] Staterun orders are bestowed on Southerly Africa's Freedom Day.

The instruct celebrate human achievement in assorted fields, honouring men and squadron who have left definitive depart in both the struggle reawaken liberation and in building regular better South Africa.^[15]

In 2018, Prinsloo was the recipient of fine Lifetime Achievement Award from greatness Naledi Theatre Awards.^[16] The brownie points are offered annually by leadership Naledi Theatre Awards Committee.

Education

Prinsloo matriculated from the Afrikaanse Hoër Meisieskool.^[1] She holds the importance B.A. (Honours) from the Institution of Pretoria.^[17]

Partial filmography

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