Michael de Pinna

Michael de Pinna (19**- ) is an English-born South African actor, singer, dancer and television presenter, best known as the leopard-skinned yuppie buffoon in the "Yebo Gogo" Vodacom television commercials.

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

Stage productions include: Let’s Do It at the new Village Manor Theatre (1991); Joyce Levinsohn Productions and PACT’s Oliver! at the Windybrow Theatre (1991); The Jackal in Michael Pertwee’s Birds of Paradise at the Alhambra Theatre (1992); Abe Goldman in James Sherman’s Beau Jest (1993); Murder in Green Meadows (1994); The Fan (1994); Edith Piaf – No Regrets; Babes in the Wood; Those Good Old Days; Annie; The Archon (with PACT); Christian; This Old Man Came Rolling Home; They’re Playing Our Song; Walter in The Twilight of the Golds (2014);

Sources

SACD 1980/81.

Tucker, 1997.

TVSA [1].

For more information

[michaeldepinna.co.za]

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