Zakes Mokae
Highest Rated: 82% A Dry White Season (1989)
Lowest Rated: 12% Vampire in Brooklyn (1995)
Birthday: Aug 5, 1934
Birthplace: Johannesburg, South Africa
One of South Africa's most famous black actors, Mokae's quiet strength, charm and resilient good humor have animated the searing theatrical productions ("The Blood Knot," "Boesman and Lena") of his white countryman, Athol Fugard with whom he founded the radical theater group, the Rehearsal Room in the 1950s. Since he left South Africa and settled in the USA in 1969, Mokae has turned in powerful supporting roles in films including "Cry Freedom" (1987) and "A Dry White Season" (1989). He received a Tony Award for his turn on Broadway opposite Danny Glover and Lonny Price in Fugard's "Master Harold...and the boys" (1982).
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18% | 24% | Krippendorf's Tribe | Sulukim (Character) | $7.6M | 1998 |
| 12% | 31% | Vampire in Brooklyn | Dr. Zeko (Character) | $18.7M | 1995 |
| 59% | 56% | Outbreak | Dr. Benjamin Iwabi (Character) | $65.9M | 1995 |
| 45% | 43% | Waterworld | Priam (Character) | $88.2M | 1995 |
| 29% | 59% | Dust Devil | Ben Mukurob (Character) | - | 1992 |
| 42% | 32% | Body Parts | Detective Sawchuck (Character) | $7.4M | 1991 |
| 66% | 51% | A Rage in Harlem | Big Kathy (Character) | $8.8M | 1991 |
| No Score Yet | 33% | Parker Kane | Kid Lightning (Character) | - | 1990 |
| 82% | 76% | A Dry White Season | Stanley Makhaya (Character) | $3.3M | 1989 |
| 55% | 60% | Dad | Dr. Chad (Character) | $19.7M | 1989 |
| 36% | 53% | Gross Anatomy | Dr. Banumbra (Character) | $11.3M | 1989 |
| 64% | 57% | The Serpent and the Rainbow | Dargent Peytraud (Character) | $19.0M | 1988 |
| 74% | 88% | Cry Freedom | Father Kani (Character) | $4.9M | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Master Harold and the Boys | Unknown (Character) | - | 1985 |
| 33% | 51% | The Island | Wescott (Character) | - | 1980 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | One in a Million: The Ron LeFlore Story | Pee Wee Spencer (Character) | - | 1978 |
| 27% | 48% | The Comedians | Michel (Character) | - | 1967 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A World of Strangers | Steven Sitole (Character) | - | 1962 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 91% | 90% | Monk | Tonday Mawwaka (Guest Star) | 2002 |
| 75% | 95% | The West Wing | President Nimbala (Guest Star) | 2000 |
| 92% | 96% | Oz | Kipekemie Jara (Guest Star) | 1998 |
| 74% | 85% | The X-Files | Diabria (Guest Star) | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | 96% | Law & Order | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1994 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hogan Family | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1989 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Different World | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | 89% | Knight Rider | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1983 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Starsky and Hutch | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1976 |