Neil McCarthy

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McCARTHY, Neil(19**-), playwright, actor, television personality, writer, producer and director.

Biography

Training

BA-degree in Drama at University of Cape Town (1979).

Career

Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance

Winner of the Fleur du Cap Theatre Award for Most Promising Student in 1980. **  One of the leading juvenile leads of the late 1970s and early 1980s, roles in The Labyrinth (The Space, 197*), ****, Another Country (**, 198*), ****, Born in the RSA (Simon & Co, 1985), ****. Wrote ****(19**), ****(19**), ****(19**), The Great Outdoors (2000). In 2001 he came to prominence as the supervising ** of the South African version of the TV-“reality” show Big Brother. 


Awards, etc

Sources

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