Francois Toerien
(197*-) Actor, director and television personality. Studied history and theory of drama at the University of Stellenbosch, then did an Honours Degree in Directing at the Drama Department at the University of Stellenbosch. Initially actor and director for the Stellebosch based Spektrum Produksies, he later managed the company for Johan (JJ) Fourie. Also ran the Klein Libertas Teater two years (1998-1999?*). In 2000 he was selected as one of the continuity presenters for KykNet, the Afrikaans commercial TV channel and became a nationally recognized celebrity. Besides the television work he performed in a number of prose and verse productions with his former wife Nicole Holm (normally compiled and directed by Juanita Swanepoel for the KKNK festival) and had an enormous success as Trompie in the popular comedy Roadkill/Padkos by Malan Steyn (2000-2001), **, Vrypas (KKNK and NAF, 2006), ***Wrote and directed the immensely popular annual series Die Francois Toerien Show at the Little Libertas Theatre in Stellenbosch. As director he has done ** Eet Alles by Malan Steyn (Aardklop, 2004), Vrededorp by Charles Fourie (KKNK, 2005), **
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