Deon Lotz was born on 20 July 1964 and is a South African film, television, and theatre actor.
13 Facts About Deon Lotz
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Deon Lotz is perhaps best known internationally for roles in Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom and Beauty.
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Deon Lotz has appeared in both English- and Afrikaans-language productions.
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Deon Lotz sang for the Drakensberg Boys Choir in his teenage years.
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Deon Lotz received the Best Actor award at the 2011 Zurich Film Festival for his performance in the film.
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In 2012, Deon Lotz was named Best Actor in a Feature Film for his role in Beauty at the South African Film and Television Awards.
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Deon Lotz played the role of Kobie Coetzee in the 2013 feature Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom.
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Deon Lotz won Best Supporting Male at the 2013 kykNET Silwerskermfees for his role in the Afrikaans-language family film, Faan se Trein.
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Deon Lotz was nominated for a 2015 SAFTA award for Best Supporting Actor for this film.
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Deon Lotz has starred in South African, European, and North American television productions, including The Book of Negroes, Wallander, When We Were Black, and Flight of the Storks.
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In 2016, Deon Lotz received the SAFTA award for Best Supporting Actor - TV Drama for his role in When We Were Black.
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Deon Lotz has appeared in a number of South African theatre productions, including Liefde, Anna with noted South African actress Sandra Prinsloo; an Afrikaans-language version of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull; and Moeder Moed en Haar Kinders, a translation of Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage.
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Deon Lotz won Best Supporting Actor awards for Die Seemeeu and Moeder Moed en Haar Kinders at the 2015 Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees.