Patrick Lyster

Patrick Lyster (19**-) is an stage, film and TV actor.

Biography

After a career as a safari guide Lyster began his acting career later in life, starting with the NAPAC Opera Company and going on to appear in musicals and theatre, film and television productions throughout the 1990s and 2000s. He has also worked internationally.

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

His theatre credits include Arcadia (NAF 1994), King Lear, Hamlet, Asking for It, Broken Glass

Film and TV Highlights include The Adventures of Sinbad (1997), The Fourth Reich (1990), The Bone Snatcher (2003)End Game, The Big Bang Club, The Lab, Supernova (2005), Slipstream (2005), Goodbye Bafana (2007), Primeval (2007) and Invictus(2009),

For a full listing of his work, see his listing with the APM casting agency[1]

Awards, etc.

He was one of the recipients of the London New Play Festival awards and received a SAFTA Nomination as Best supporting actor for Goodbye Bafana.

Sources

National Arts Festival programme, 1994.

Mail and Guardian, 7 April 2011.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0529300

https://www.tvsa.co.za/actors/viewactor.aspx?actorid=628

https://www.apm.co.za/artiste/patrick-lyster-529/#acting

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