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Ian Roberts

South African Actor/playwright and singer

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Ian Roberts

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Date of Birth: 00-00-1952 Place of Birth: Fort Beaufort

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Ian Roberts is a South African actor, playwright and singer.It was seven years after he left school before he decided he wanted to be an actor. Ian became a South African icon when he played the character of Boet in a long-running series of television advertisements for Castrol motor oil. In addition to series television, Roberts has also acted in a number of mini-series and made-for-TV movies including A Private Life (1989), Daisy de Melker (1993), Rhodes (1996), Inside (1996), Mandela and de Klerk (1997), Black Velvet Band (1997), Efterträdaren (1999), King Solomon's Mines (2004), Coup! (2006) and Crossroads (2006).

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Actor - Number 10: (2006 - 2006)

Actor - Wah-Wah: (2005 - 2005)

Actor - Tsotsi: (2005 - 2005)

Actor - 3 Needles: (2005 - 2005)

Actor - King Solomon's Mines: (2004 - 2004)

Actor - Red Dust: (2004 - 2004)

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Qualification - Port Elizabeth Technical College: Photography (1975)

Degree - Rhodes University: B.A. (1976)

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Has worked as a quantity surveyor, a foreman in a glass factory, a door-to-door salesman for a publishing company and a citrus farmer, as well as helping an uncle run a firm that tarred driveways and managing an African clothing shop in Port Elizabet

It was seven years after he left shcool before he decided he wanted to be an actor.

Achievements

Best Actor in a Feature Film in Cape Rebel - MNET

Television Series -: Lead Role

Best Actor on TV for Arende 111 - Star Tonight Award

Television - French TV & Heyns Films: Support Role

Most Popular Actor in Advertising - Rapport

Television - Bataleur Films: Support Role

Best Supporting Actor in The Fourth Reich - MNET

Television Series -: Support Role

Best Performer on Stage in Afrikaans in Die Koggelaar - Dalro Award

Telelvision Series - Channel 4 U.K.: Support Role

Best Actor on TV in Arende - Artes Award

Television - NRK Television Norway: Support Role

Award for Best Actor in Arende - Star Tonight Award

Theatre -: Lead Role

Best Actor on TV in Verspeelde Lente - Star Tonight Award

Theatre - Civic Theatre: Lead Role

Theatre -: Lead Role

Theatre - Baxter Theatre: Lead Role

Theatre - Nico Theatre: Lead Role

Theatre - Nico Malan Theatre: Lead Role

Theatre - Space Theatre: Writer

Theatre - Market Theatre: Lead Role

Theatre - Market Theatre: Co-writer

-: Co-director

Xhosa Television Series -: Director

Television Series (13 episodes) - De Witt Films: Director

Television Series (13 episodes) - SABC 1: Director

Cabaret -: Director

Television Series (6 part) - MNet: Presenter

Television Series (13 episodes) - SABC: Presenter

Television Series - Director: Katinka Heyns: Support Role

Television Series -: Lead Role

Feature Film - Warner Bros.: (1992); Role of Hoppie Gruenewald

Television -: (1993); Role of Sid de Melker

Feature Film -: (1994); Co-writer

Feature Film -: (1994); Lead Role

Feature Film - Director: Darryl Roodt: (1995); Role of Evans

Feature Film - Nu Metro Productions: (1996); Role of Sheen

Television - Showtime: (1996); Role of Moolman

Television mini-series - BBC: (1996); Role of Colenbrander

Television - Yorkshire TV: (1997); Role of Dwyer

Feature Film - Showtime USA: (1997); Role of Kobie Coetzee

Feature Film - Village Road Show: (1998); Role of Captain Dooley

Feature Film - Nu World Productions: (1998); Role of Yager

Feature Film -: (1998); Role of Frans

Feature Film - Director: Gavin Hood: (1999); Role of Chris van Rooyen

Feature Film - Paramount Pictures: (2000); Role of Mike Donovan

Feature Film -: (2000); Role of General Van Damm

Television Series - Vision International Prod.: (2002); Role of Captain Swart

Feature Film -: (2002); Role of Gerhard Snyman

Feature Film -: (2003); Role of Earl

Television Series - MNet: (2003); Boet

Feature Film - Golden Square Films: (2004); Role of Piet Muller

Television Mini Series - Hallmark: (2004); Role of King Henry

Feature Film - Director: Gavin Hood: (2005); Role of Captain Smit

Feature Film - Director: Richard E. Grant: (2005); Role of John Traherne

Feature Film -: (2005); Hallyday, the plantation owner

Television Series - MNet: (2005); Lead Role

Television -: (2006); Role of Alan

Television -: (2006); Role of Nick du Toit

Feature Film - Director: Darryl Roodt: (2006); Role of Marius Kramer

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