Sandra Prinsloo - Van Ballet tot Hollywood in Gods Must Be Crazy, en dan seil sy self om die wêreld!

Sandra Prinsloo is one of South Africa's most celebrated actresses — best known internationally as Kate Thompson in The Gods Must Be Crazy — but the woman who shows up to this conversation is nothing like the stately public figure the press has made her out to be. Vocal Media Effortlessly graceful, quietly modest, and deeply private by nature, Sandra arrived at acting almost by accident. She was a ballet dancer first, and never imagined she would become an actress — she was, by her own admission, far too shy for that. What followed was one of the most fearless careers in South African theatre and film — including her landmark appearance opposite John Kani in Miss Julie in 1985, which was met with bomb threats, death threats, and violent assaults from conservative whites. She did it anyway. AcastAcast With over 55 credits to her name, she was also part of the original cast of Egoli: Place of Gold, South Africa's first soap opera. But ask her about any of it and she'll wave it away modestly — before telling you about sailing a yacht from Cape Town to the Mediterranean, driving through the bushveld in a Land Rover with her brother, and walking her dogs at 78 with absolutely no intention of slowing down. Ensun She is not what you expect. She is considerably more.