Zakes Mokae

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Zakes Mokae

Mokae with Donald Sutherland in the film A Dry White Season
Born August 5, 1935 (1935-08-05) (age 72)
Johannesburg, South Africa

Zakes Zulu Mokae (born August 5, 1935) is a South African-born American actor.

Mokae was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, moved to England in 1961, and to the United States in 1969.[1] He turned to acting at the same time as playwright Athol Fugard was emerging. The two worked together on Fugard's first international success Master Harold... and the Boys, for which Mokae won the 1982 Tony Award for Featured Actor in a Play.

Mokae worked in other Fugard plays. His films range from A Dry White Season, Cry Freedom and A World of Strangers to The Serpent and the Rainbow, Vampire in Brooklyn and Dust Devil. He was also in the movie Outbreak. On television, he has been a guest actor in many series such as The West Wing, Starsky and Hutch, Danger Man, The X-Files, Oz, Monk and Knight Rider.

In recent years, Mokae has been working as a theatre director for American companies including the Nevada Shakespeare Company.

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  1. ^ Zakes Mokae Biography. filmreference (2008). Retrieved on 2008-05-19.

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