13 Facts About Sandra Prinsloo

Sandra Prinsloo has stated that she never expected to become an actress.

Sandra Prinsloo has said that after that night, she realised that acting was her calling.

Sandra Prinsloo was in the original cast of Egoli: Place of Gold, South Africa's first soap opera.

Sandra Prinsloo has conducted a series of interviews with personalities and celebrities for South African TV, Sandra Op 'n Drafstap.

Sandra Prinsloo has acted in a number of South African television series and movies throughout her career, including Erfsondes ; Hartland ; Known Gods ; Saints, Sinners, and Settlers ; and Konings among others.

Sandra Prinsloo has performed in more than 100 different productions, often playing leading roles in works by South African and international dramatists.

Sandra Prinsloo reportedly received obscene hate mail and both received death threats.

When interviewed in 2014 for the 21 Icons Project, a series of short films about South Africans "who have shaped the world around them", Sandra Prinsloo commented that ""I thought [the play] would cause a stir, but I didn't think it would cause a minor revolution.

Sandra Prinsloo returned to the Edinburgh Festival in 2012 with The Sewing Machine, an English-language translation of the Afrikaans-language play, Die Naaimasjien.

In October 2015, Sandra Prinsloo portrayed South African journalist, Jani Allan in Jani at the Aardklop festival.

In 2013, Sandra Prinsloo received the ACT Lifetime Achievement Award for Theatre.

In 2014, Sandra Prinsloo was the recipient of a national order by the South African government, the Order of Ikhamanga in silver, for those whose outstanding work has benefited South Africa.

In 2018, Sandra Prinsloo was the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Naledi Theatre Awards.