Albert Pretorius

Albert Pretorius (19**-) is a stage and film actor and playwright.

He studied at the University of Cape Town in 2008, he made his professional acting debut in Jaco Bouwer's #UNTITLED. He has performed with Dutch theatre group Toneelgroep De Appel on various occasions, both here and in Holland, as well as in plays like Sam Shepard's DOODSNIKKE (directed by Janice Honeyman), Athol Fugard's PLAYLAND (directed by Albert Maritz) and Christiaan Olwagen's DOGMA, to name but a few. In 2012, he collaborated with Rob van Vuuren, Tara Notcutt and James Cairns on THE THREE LITTLE PIGS, a political satire that received great accolades here and abroad. Pretorius recently played worked with Bouwer again in Saartjie Botha's BALBESIT. Together with ...MISKIEN, Pretorius has performed on three continents and at various theatre festivals all over the world. In 2013, he won a Standard Bank Ovation Award for his performance in THOM PAIN (BASED ON NOTHING), which was also performed in Holland. He has also been nominated for numerous Best Actor awards, for ...MISKIEN at the Clover Aardklop Festival; for THE THREE LITTLE PIGS at this year's Fleur du Cap Awards; for MESSE IN HENNE and NAGWOND at the kykNET Fiesta Awards; and most recently for DOGMA at the Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees Kanna Awards. DOGMA will head to to Aardklop later this year.

He also performs under the name Albertus Pretorius on occasion.

He is a founding director of The Pink Couch company, along with Tara Notcutt, Gideon Lombard and Mat Lewis.

Stage roles in Long Walk to Freedom, 3 Little Pigs (2014), Balbesit (2013), Thom Pain (based on nothing) (2014), Dogma (2014), Playland (2014), Fatal (2015), Waiting for this God ou (2014)

Television Roles include Waterfront (Season 1) Binnelanders (Season 6), Die Boekklub (Season 2), Buurtwag (Season 1) and Die Boland Moorde (Seasons 1 and 2).

Film roles include Die Wonderwerker (2012), Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013) and Konfetti (2014).

As a playwright he has written he co-authored ...MISKIEN with Tara Notcutt and Gideon Lombard (2014); Fatal (2015),