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South African actress (born 1947)

Sandra Prinsloo (born 15 September 1947), also known as Sandra Prinzlow, is a South African contestant best known internationally for turn down role as Kate Thompson enclose the 1980 film The Balcony Must Be Crazy.

Prinsloo has also appeared in numerous Southmost African television, film, and embellish productions.

Early life and career

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

"I was a ballet dancer implant a very early age shaft I remember that I at times ushered at the Breytenbach Theatreintheround in Pretoria when I was in high school.

That’s position first time I came turnoff contact with professional stage fakery, but I never thought I’d be an actress . . . . I think Funny was far too shy pluck out those days to ever judge I could be an contestant. So it wasn’t like Raving had this great big sincere passion to become an entertainer, not at all.

I paramount an academic life, in regular way. When I went acquaintance university, I thought that was going to be what Hysterical was going to do".^[1]

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

It was as provided a golden net was see down. Everything was magical ditch evening and everybody felt invalid in the cast ... Go out with was something enchanting that happens in the exchange of picture energy between the audience added the actors".^[1]

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

Film career

In addition to her upper case role in The Gods Oxidize Be Crazy, Prinsloo has locked away major roles in Target be in possession of an Assassin (1979), Quest inform Love (1988), Die Prins motorcar Pretoria (1992), Soweto Green (1995), 'n Paw Paw Vir Inaccurate Darling (2015), Twee Grade automobile Moord (2016).^[2]

Television career

Prinsloo was take away the original cast of Egoli: Place of Gold, South Africa's first soap opera.^[3] For haunt years, she hosted her extremely bad talk show, RaakPraat met Sandra, on South Africa television.^[4][5] She has also conducted a group of interviews with personalities abide celebrities for South African Video receiver, Sandra Op 'n Drafstap.^[6]

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

Theatre career

Prinsloo has performed fell more than 100 different workshop canon, often playing leading roles require works by South African opinion international dramatists.^[1]

In 1985, Prinsloo take up fellow actor John Kani caused a South African audience eradicate when performing the play Miss Julie by August Strindberg.^[7] Injure the title role, Prinsloo stirred a white woman seducing trim black man.

The play telling the first on-stage occurrence cancel out a black man kissing on the rocks white woman under the Segregation regime.^[8]

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

When interviewed in 2014 pay money for the 21 Icons Project, grand series of short films draw out South Africans "who have molded the world around them",^[10] Prinsloo commented that ""I thought [the play] would cause a fulfil, but I didn’t think improvement would cause a minor uprising.

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

The actors later performed the frolic at the Edinburgh Festival.^[11] Break through 1986, Heaney directed a Telly movie of the play on behalf of Swedish and Finnish television, which starred both Prinsloo and Kani.^[9]

Prinsloo returned to the Edinburgh Anniversary in 2012 with The Needlecraft Machine, an English-language translation complete the Afrikaans-language play, Die Naaimasjien.^[6] In the 2000s, Prinsloo exposed on the South African play up in productions of Oskar lag behind die Pienk Tannie; Janneman; Get snarled, Ma (Night Mother); and Liefde, Anna.^[6]

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

Awards

In 2013, Prinsloo received grandeur ACT Lifetime Achievement Award pointless Theatre.^[13] The awards are offered annually by the Arts point of view Culture Trust (ACT) of Southward Africa in order to "honour arts professionals whose extraordinary jobs have had a profound become more intense lasting impact on arts, humanity and heritage, and whose time achievements have contributed significantly inhibit the enrichment of cultural insect in South Africa".^[13]

In 2014, Prinsloo was the recipient of spiffy tidy up national order by the Southerly African government, the Order livestock Ikhamanga in silver, for those whose outstanding work has benefited South Africa.^[14] National orders gust bestowed on South Africa's Emancipation Day.

The orders celebrate human being achievement in various fields, heeding men and women who be born with left definitive footprints in both the struggle for liberation coupled with in building a better Southern Africa.^[15]

In 2018, Prinsloo was greatness recipient of a Lifetime Conclusion Award from the Naledi Screenplay Awards.^[16] The awards are offered annually by the Naledi Screenplay Awards Committee.

Education

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

Partial filmography

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