Difference between revisions of "Patrick Lyster"
| Line 3: | Line 3: | ||
==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
| − | After a career as a safari guide Patrick started his acting career with the [[NAPAC]] Opera Company and went on to musicals and theatre, film and television. He has worked internationally | + | After a career as a safari guide Patrick started his acting career with the [[NAPAC]] Opera Company and went on to appear in musicals and theatre, film and television productions throughout the 1990s and 2000s. He has also worked internationally. |
==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance== | ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance== | ||
Revision as of 07:02, 13 July 2024
Patrick Lyster (19**-) is an stage, film and TV actor.
Contents
Biography
After a career as a safari guide Patrick started his acting career with the NAPAC Opera Company and went on to appear in musicals and theatre, film and television productions throughout the 1990s and 2000s. He has also worked internationally.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
His theatre credits include Arcadia (NAF 1994), King Lear, Hamlet and Asking for It, Broken Glass
Film and TV Highlights include The Adventures of Sinbad (1997), The Fourth Reich (1990), End Game, Invictus, The Big Bang Club, The Lab and Goodbye Bafana.
He began acting later in life after joining the NAPAC Opera Company, and has since appeared in many roles in films and television throughout the 1990s and 2000s. Some of his more notable roles include Johan in The Bone Snatcher (2003), Hooks in Slipstream (2005), Edwards in Supernova (2005), Roger Sharpe in Primeval (2007), Major Pieter Jordaan in Goodbye Bafana (2007), and Mr. Pienaar in Invictus (2009).
For a full listing of his work, see his listing with the APM casting agency[1]
Awards, etc.
He was one of the recipients of the London New Play Festival awards and received a SAFTA Nomination as Best supporting actor for Goodbye Bafana.
Sources
National Arts Festival programme, 1994.
Mail and Guardian, 7 April 2011.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0529300
https://www.tvsa.co.za/actors/viewactor.aspx?actorid=628
https://www.apm.co.za/artiste/patrick-lyster-529/#acting
Return to
Return to ESAT Personalities L
Return to South African Theatre Personalities
Return to Main Page
