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Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1956-07-18

Place of Birth

Upington, Northern Cape, South Africa

Dawid Minnaar

Biography

Dawid Minnaar is a South African actor best known for his extensive work on stage and, amongst other roles, his roles in the highly acclaimed television series Konings (Kings) (1992) and the follow-up series Torings (Towers) (1994), in which he played Dolf Groenewald. He is also known for his work in feature films such as Fiela se Kind (Fiela’s Child) (1998), in the role of Benjamin Komoetie, and Die Wonderwerker (The Wonder Worker) (2012) in which he played the iconic Afrikaans poet, healer and naturalist, Eugène Marais. Both of these films were directed by the veteran director Katinka Heyns.

Known for

Binnelanders

Binnelanders

A South African Afrikaans soap opera. It is set in and around the fictional private hospital, Binneland Kliniek, in Pretoria, and the storyline follows the trials, trauma and tribulations of the staff and patients of the hospital.

7de Laan

7de Laan

7de Laan is an extraordinary microcosm where good and bad, evil and wholesome characters find themselves forming part of a wholesome community where no matter what – everyone counts and everyone cares…

Kelders van Geheime

Kelders van Geheime

Kelders van Geheime (Cellars of Secrets) is a South African, Afrikaans-language telenovela based on the wheeling's and dealings of the community that lives on Soebatskloof (a wine farm in the Cape). The series focuses on three families: the Abrahams, Syster and Marais households. These families will have to stand together, agree (or agree to disagree), and work together to earn their bread and butter – and a glass of wine.

Legacy

Legacy

Legacy is a South African telenovela which follows the wealthy Price household, a family at war with itself after the patriarch announces he is stepping down, creating a power vacuum.

Koek

Koek

When Cape Town housewife discovers evidence her husband is having an affair with a stripper, her investigation takes her to a world poles apart from the suburban utopia she knows.

Waterfront

Waterfront

Waterfront is a South African, Afrikaans-language television drama series which revolves around three sisters whose paths reconnect after a family tragedy brings all three back to their place of youth and childhood - the Waterfront in Cape Town.

Hartklop

Hartklop

A group of brilliant newly graduated doctors are thrown together in the corridors of the Beyers Naudé Academic Hospital, where they perform miracles to save the lives of their patients - regardless of the cost to themselves.

Swartwater

Swartwater

After experiencing an unspeakable tragedy, a young suburban couples move to the small coastal town of Swartwater. They soon become embroiled with the local population and their intrigues and realize that all is not as it seems.

Republiek van Zoid Afrika

Republiek van Zoid Afrika

Karen Zoid's talk show with comic sketches, visits with influential and exceptional people, and music that will take your breath away.

Die Oord

Die Oord

A holiday town on the coast. Families who have been camping at the same caravan park for generations. Children playing on the beach. Braai under the trees. Everything is idyllic - until a body washes up on the beach.

Amalia

Amalia

Amalia is a South African television drama series created by Chris Barnard, directed by Katinka Heyns and produced by Sonneblom Films about an unsolved murder where all the inhabitants of a small town are suspects. The series is in Afrikaans, with English subtitles.

Tuiskoms

Tuiskoms

After a series of misfortunes, Fleur — mourning a deep loss — takes her daughter and returns to her hometown in search of a renewed sense of purpose.

The Girl from St. Agnes

The Girl from St. Agnes

Dark secrets are revealed after a tragic event at an elite boarding school sets off a search for the truth.

Sara se Geheim

Sara se Geheim

Sara se Geheim is set in Cape Town, with two stories taking place at the same time - one about a family in Durbanville and the other of a family in Athlone. These families' lives are seemingly worlds apart, but a lie connects them - a lie which has been held secret for 35 long years.

Devil's Peak

Devil's Peak

Based on Deon Meyer's 2004 best-selling novel of the same name - centres on Detective Benny Grissel, tasked with tracking down a righteous vigilante killer whose crimes capture the city's imagination.