About Deon...

Deon Lotz was born 20 July 1964, and is a South African film, television, and theatre actor. He is perhaps best known internationally for roles in Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom and Beauty (Skoonheid). He has appeared in both English and Afrikaans language productions.

Deon lives in Cape Town with his family, traveling for work to Johannesburg and other locations in South Africa.

Prior to becoming an actor, Deon worked as a hotelier, and early in his career acted in commercials.

Film career.

In 2011, he had the starring role in Beauty (Skoonheid) directed by Oliver Hermanus, which became South Africa's submission for Best Foreign Language Film for the 2011 Academy Awards. 

Beauty won the Queer Palm Award at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival and was the first Afrikaans language film to be screened at Cannes. 

Deon received the Best Actor award at the 2011 Zurich Film Festival for his performance in the film, and in 2012 he was named "Best Actor in a Feature Film" for his role in Beauty at the South African Film and Television Awards.

Deon played the role of Kobie Coetzee in the 2013 feature Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom with Idris Elba.

Deon won Best Supporting Male at the 2013 kykNET Silwerskeemfees (Silver Screen Festival) for his role in the Afrikaans language family film, Faan se Trein, and was nominated for a 2015 SAFTA award for Best Supporting Actor for this film. 

Other notable films he has appeared in include Musiek vir die Agtergrond (2013), Winnie Mandela (2013), "Master Harold" . . . and the Boys (2010), and Proteus (2003).

A full list of movies etc. can be found on the homepage under the heading...Filmography.

Television career.

Deon has starred in South African, European, and North American television productions, including The Book of Negroes (2015), Wallander (2015), When We Were Black (2014), and Flight of the Storks (2012).

Theatre career.

Deon 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. He won Best Supporting Actor awards for Die Seemeeu and Moeder Moed en Haar Kinders at the 2015 Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees, and was nominated in 2008 for Best Actor for his role in the play Wrestlers at the Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards.

Awards.

• Nominee, Best Actor, Wrestlers, Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards, 2008

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• Winner, Best Actor, Beauty, Zurich Film Festival, 2011

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• Winner, Best Actor in a Feature Film, Beauty, South African Film and Television Awards (SAFTA), 2012

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• Winner, Best Supporting Actor, Faan se Trein, kykNET Silwerskeemfees, 2013

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• Winner, Best Supporting Actor, Die Seemeeu, Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees, 2015

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• Winner, Best Supporting Actor, Moeder Moed en Haar Kinders, Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees, 2015

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• Nominee, Best Supporting Actor in a Feature Film, Faan se Trein, South African Film and Television Awards (SAFTA), 2015

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• Winner, Best Supporting Actor in a TV Drama Series, 'When we were Black.' South African Film and Television Awards (SAFTA) 2016