Sharlto Copley

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1. 1973 age 0

   Born

2. 2005 age 32

   CreditAlive in Joburg

   CreditAlive in Joburgproducer

3. 2009 age 36

   CreditDistrict 9

4. 2010 age 37

   CreditThe A-Team

5. 2013 age 40

   CreditElysium

   CreditEuropa Report

   CreditOldboy

   CreditOpen Grave

6. 2014 age 41

   CreditMaleficent

7. 2015 age 42

   CreditChappie

   CreditHardcore Henry

   CreditHardcore Henryexecutive producer

8. 2016 age 43

   CreditFree Fire

9. 2018 age 45

   CreditGringo

10. 2020 age 47

    CreditThe Last Days of American Crime

11. 2022 age 49

    CreditBeast

12. 2023 age 50

    CreditBoy Kills World

13. 2024 age 51

    CreditMonkey Man

14. 2025 age 52

    CreditHeads of State

• NBNeill Blomkamp4 titles
• BABrandon Auret4 titles
• TOTrent Opaloch3 titles
• JCJulian Clarke3 titles
• DPDev Patel2 titles
• IEIdris Elba2 titles
• JCJose Pablo Cantillo2 titles
• SPSteven Price2 titles
• SKSimon Kinberg2 titles
• SRSam Riley2 titles

• Spouse

  • TPTanit Phoenix

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• I was drawn to it. I actually made a choice not to do it as a career because I didn’t want people judging me, frankly. It was such a personal thing that I didn’t care what you thought. The best entertainment I’ve ever experienced, the best musicians – I remember, I was a huge Michael Jackson fan when I was growing up, and when you watch people doing a certain performance, you get a sense that they’re not asking for your permission. They’re giving you something, energetically, that’s so powerful that you have to go along with it

  Sharlto Copley, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Yeah. It’s like, they say writers can only be as interesting as the perceptions and world views that they have. Good writers usually have something more than the average person. They draw on perceptions of life – different takes on things, just observations on the way things are. You can only bring what you have or what you’ve experienced

  Sharlto Copley, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I think, in a certain way, I do that. I do it in a caricature-ish sort of way, because I like characters which are a bit larger than life – ones which make cool action figures or are entertaining in some way – but I try to deal with some element of truth, and to be coming from some sort of truthful place

  Sharlto Copley, CC BY-SA 4.0