John Kani

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1943 age 0

   Born

2. 1992 age 49

   CreditSarafina!

3. 1996 age 53

   CreditThe Ghost and the Darkness

4. 1997 age 54

   CreditKini and Adams

5. 2009 age 66

   CreditEndgame

6. 2011 age 68

   CreditCoriolanus

7. 2016 age 73

   CreditCaptain America: Civil War

8. 2018 age 75

   CreditBlack Panther

9. 2023 age 80

   CreditMurder Mystery 2

• SLStan Lee2 titles
• KFKevin Feige2 titles
• SSSebastian Stan2 titles
• CBChadwick Boseman2 titles
• WHWilliam Hurt2 titles
• FKFlorence Kasumba2 titles
• MFMartin Freeman2 titles
• MSMark Strong2 titles
• BHBernard Hill1 title
• JAJennifer Aniston1 title

• Children

  • AKAtandwa Kani

Nothing recorded for: Spouse, Partner, Parents, Siblings, Influenced by, Studied under, Taught.

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  Photo:US Embassy South AfricaPublic domain

• ...to me as a reminder that every young actor rising in our nation carries the potential to change the world. May this inspire all who are on their way up to keep going, keep creating and keep believing.

  John Kani, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Dancers are nimble, constantly getting their bodies ready. Musicians are always making noise. But actors only work when the agent calls. So, by the time they go into auditions, one is so out of touch with himself or herself or what is required in the industry

  John Kani, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I decided to found the academy for actors already practicing in the sector who wish to upgrade and empower themselves

  John Kani, CC BY-SA 4.0

• We have a very small film industry. If I tell you now in America, there will be over 400 movies being made. If I go to England now, I’ll find about 50 to 100. I don’t want to talk about Nigeria, probably 3,000. So, I don’t want to call it the South African film industry, so I would rather say the South African creative sector.

  John Kani, CC BY-SA 4.0

• There are so many beautiful and powerful stories in Africa. They are in our culture from the beginning of time. We were kings and queens before all this colonisation and oppression. Those are the stories we must tell so that our children and the next generation could know that Nelson Mandela was not the first. There were others way before him that led the charge of a free independent Africa

  John Kani, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Every story has a lesson and we sit in that theater for two hours waiting for that one line, that one lesson that we take home.

  John Kani, CC BY-SA 4.0