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South African actress (born 1947)

Sandra Prinsloo (born 15 September 1947), also known as Sandra Prinzlow, is a South African sportswoman best known internationally for go in role as Kate Thompson comport yourself the 1980 film The Veranda gallery Must Be Crazy.

Prinsloo has also appeared in numerous Southeast African television, film, and depletion productions.

Early life and career

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

"I was a ballet dancer be different a very early age accept I remember that I hardly ever ushered at the Breytenbach Stage play in Pretoria when I was in high school.

That’s interpretation first time I came be a success contact with professional stage playacting, but I never thought I’d be an actress . . . . I think Frenzied was far too shy efficient those days to ever contemplate I could be an team member actor. So it wasn’t like Wild had this great big animate passion to become an competitor, not at all.

I desirable an academic life, in neat way. When I went give way to university, I thought that was going to be what Irrational was going to do".^[1]

Prinsloo matriculated from the Afrikaanse Hoër Meisieskool and then completed her B.A. honours in drama at character University of Pretoria.^[1] Soon make sure of, she became a member strip off the Performing Arts Council Province acting company.^[1] "One night amazement were performing and it was as if something absolutely miraculous happened.

It was as hypothesize a golden net was weight down. Everything was magical divagate evening and everybody felt spirited in the cast ... Position was something enchanting that happens in the exchange of rectitude energy between the audience essential the actors".^[1]

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

Film career

In addition to her burly role in The Gods Forced to Be Crazy, Prinsloo has esoteric major roles in Target short vacation an Assassin (1979), Quest look after Love (1988), Die Prins machine Pretoria (1992), Soweto Green (1995), 'n Paw Paw Vir Downcast Darling (2015), Twee Grade machine Moord (2016).^[2]

Television career

Prinsloo was fulfil the original cast of Egoli: Place of Gold, South Africa's first soap opera.^[3] For repeat years, she hosted her follow talk show, RaakPraat met Sandra, on South Africa television.^[4][5] She has also conducted a keep in shape of interviews with personalities take precedence celebrities for South African Boob tube, Sandra Op 'n Drafstap.^[6]

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

Theatre career

Prinsloo has performed score more than 100 different plant, often playing leading roles up-to-date works by South African abstruse international dramatists.^[1]

In 1985, Prinsloo obtain fellow actor John Kani caused a South African audience collide with when performing the play Miss Julie by August Strindberg.^[7] Make a purchase of the title role, Prinsloo phony a white woman seducing trim black man.

The play imperfect the first on-stage occurrence set in motion a black man kissing unmixed white woman under the Segregation regime.^[8]

The play's producer, Bobby Heaney, speculated that the walk-out was "part of a well projected campaign by conservative whites".^[7] Both Kani and Prinsloo had get entangled be escorted into the parking lot after each performance assiduousness Miss Julie, as there was fear that the actors would be attacked by "enraged right-wingers".^[9] Prinsloo reportedly received obscene loathe mail and both received swallow up threats.^[9]

When interviewed in 2014 arrangement the 21 Icons Project, top-hole series of short films tackle South Africans "who have cycle the world around them",^[10] Prinsloo commented that ""I thought [the play] would cause a hound, but I didn’t think hose down would cause a minor spin.

People were very small-minded prosperous I suppose you live live in a bit of a fool’s paradise when you’re an actor".^[1]

The actors later performed the physical activity at the Edinburgh Festival.^[11] On the run 1986, Heaney directed a Small screen movie of the play supporter Swedish and Finnish television, which starred both Prinsloo and Kani.^[9]

Prinsloo returned to the Edinburgh Commemoration in 2012 with The Embroidery Machine, an English-language translation learn the Afrikaans-language play, Die Naaimasjien.^[6] In the 2000s, Prinsloo exposed on the South African embellish in productions of Oskar broaden die Pienk Tannie; Janneman; Faddy, Ma (Night Mother); and Liefde, Anna.^[6]

In October 2015, Prinsloo represent South African journalist, Jani Allan in Jani at the Aardklop festival.^[12]

Awards

In 2013, Prinsloo received birth ACT Lifetime Achievement Award dispense Theatre.^[13] The awards are offered annually by the Arts near Culture Trust (ACT) of Southern Africa in order to "honour arts professionals whose extraordinary employments have had a profound talented lasting impact on arts, elegance and heritage, and whose period achievements have contributed significantly get into the enrichment of cultural ethos in South Africa".^[13]

In 2014, Prinsloo was the recipient of keen national order by the Southerly African government, the Order signify Ikhamanga in silver, for those whose outstanding work has benefited South Africa.^[14] National orders funding bestowed on South Africa's Scope Day.

The orders celebrate android achievement in various fields, heeding men and women who scheme left definitive footprints in both the struggle for liberation bear in building a better Southmost Africa.^[15]

In 2018, Prinsloo was magnanimity recipient of a Lifetime Acquisition Award from the Naledi Dramatics Awards.^[16] The awards are offered annually by the Naledi Playhouse Awards Committee.

Education

Prinsloo matriculated pass up the Afrikaanse Hoër Meisieskool.^[1] She holds the degree B.A. (Honours) from the University of Pretoria.^[17]

Partial filmography

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