Akin Omotoso

(197*-) Actor, director and producer of stage, film and TV. Son of Kole Omotoso, he trained at the University of Cape Town (UCT) Drama Department, winning the Fleur du Cap Theatre Award for most promising student in 1995. After a few professional stage performances (inter alia in ****), he became a nationally known figure for his performances in various TV series (Generations, **). In 200* he began writing and directing independent films. OMOTOSO, Akin. God is an African. Acted in Isidingo, Big Okes. OMOTOSO, Akin. (19**-) Actor, film director and producer. Born in Nigeria and grew up in the university town of Ife, where he found his first love, writing. In 1992, his family moved to South Africa after his father accepted a lectureship at the University of the Western Cape. Omotoso completed his A-levels in South Africa but struggled to get into university without a matric exemption. He enrolled for the only course at the University of Cape Town that did not require a matric exemption, the Performers Diploma in Speech and Drama . Stage roles in Sunjata, (directed by Mark Fleishman), . The Fleur du Cap Award for Most Promising Student in 1995 … His first the first film he made was The Night Time , followed by three short films, The Kiss of Milk, The Nightwalkers and The Caretaker and in 1999, his first feature film God is African. Omotoso directed another short film called Rifle Road, which was selected to be screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 2005. He also made a documentary in tribute to his mother called Gathering the Scattered Cousins, selected for screening at the prestigious Toronto Film Festival in 2006. He is a familiar face on the South African small screen having starred in Isidingo: The Need, Generations and Big Okes but his acting also extends to international experience. Acted opposite Nicolas Cage in Lord of War, and in 2006, was cast in the role of Paul Kagame, in Shake Hands with the Devil.

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