Louis Minnaar

Louis Minnaar

История

Louis Minnaar is a South African actor best known for his television roles as Wynand de Kock in the SABC2 drama series Erfsondes and as Pieter Terre'Blanche in the SABC3 drama-turned-telenovela High Rollers. He studied for a National Diploma: Performing Arts at Pretoria Technikon from 1979 to 1982, whereupon he landed a one-year contract at the now-defunct performing arts council PACOFS, where he played a number of roles in repertory theatre in 1983. He worked as a translator at the SABC from 1988 to 2000, working as an actor and voice artist at the SABC. He has been a freelance actor, voice artist and scriptwriter since 2005. He played the role of Nick Dekker in the SABC2 mini-series Huis van Liefde in March 2008. Other television series he has acted in include Dryfsand, Amalia, Begeertes, Justice for All, 7de Laan, Binnelanders, Kruispad, Scandal!, 90 Plein Street, Pandjieswinkelstories and Bloedbroers. Louis has also acted in a number of feature films including District 9, Getroud Met Rugby, Winnie Mandela, Heart and Soul, Blitzpatrollie and Semi-Soet. In 2013 he landed the recurring role of Pieter Terre'Blanche, the head of security who is a recovering gambling addict. The role was upped to a series regular for Season 2 when the show changed from a weekly drama to a telenovela in 2015.

Профиль

Louis Minnaar

Фильмы

The Harvesters
Tienus
South Africa, Free State region, isolated stronghold to the Afrikaans white ethnic minority culture. In this conservative farming territory obsessed with strength and masculinity, Janno is different, secretive, emotionally frail. One day his mother, fiercely religious, brings home Pieter, a hardened street orphan she wants to save, and asks Janno to make this stranger into his brother. The two boys start a fight for power, heritage and parental love.
An Elephant's Journey
Blake Von Stein
A lost orphan boy and a giant elephant team up to take down an elephant poaching syndicate.
Dirty Laundry
Goty
Wim and Kevin work at a laundromat. By day, things are boring, but when the sun sets they party in their clients’ clothes. During a party, they discover a chopped-off finger in a client’s suit’s jacket. The underhanded owner of the finger, his sons, and a ruthless traitor are hot on Wim and Kevin’s heels and have no regard for their safety.
Semi Sweet
Andries De Villiers
Jaci van Jaarsveld will do everything in her power to stop the advertising company where she works to be taken over by a ruthless businessman known as 'The Jackal'. Her only hope for a big contract to save their company is a wine estate that markets wines to international markets. Easier said than done, especially if the winegrower requires the person to promote his wine to be in an established relationship. In desperation Jaci decided to hire a model pretending to be her fiance. She took the first attractive man walking through their offices send by the modeling agency. Everything seems to be going smooth with the meeting with the winegrower until he invites Jaci and her fiance to visit the winery for the weekend and to compete against their opposition for the contract. And who is the opposition? Jaci's ex-fiance, Mark Rossouw. Just when Jaci think she’s in full control she realized that her ‘fiance’, JP, is the very 'Jackal' who tried to sink their company.
Непокорённый
Springbok Coach
Фильм о времени после падения апартеида, когда Южная Африка провела у себя Кубок мира по регби 1995 года. Тогда шел первый президентский срок Нельсона Манделы, который пытался использовать все возможности, чтобы прекратить многолетнее непонимание между белым и чернокожим населением страны.
Район №9
Piet Smit
Более 20 лет назад инопланетяне установили первый контакт с Землей. Люди были готовы ко всему — от враждебного вторжения до невероятного технологического прорыва. Ни того, ни другого не произошло. Пришельцы оказались беженцами со своей собственной планеты, и пока мировое сообщество решало, что с ними делать дальше, для них был организован временный лагерь в южноафриканском Районе № 9.
The Stick
Platoon Captain
A squad (stick) of South African soldiers is sent into the bush to track down some rebel fighters when things take a supernatural turn.
Van der Merwe PI
Karl Snyder
South African beauty and former Miss World, Anneline Kriel stars in this action comedy about Van der Merwe, a struggling private eye. The detective’s bad luck seems set to change when drug lord Jack Barnard hires him to find Barnard’s missing girlfriend, Angel Labuschagne.
Буйти на маневрах
Maj. Murray
Освоившийся в армии Буйти ван Тондер решает, что немного славы ему не повредит. Тут как раз его части пришло время отправляться на учения, которые, по мнению Буйти, просто обязаны найти отражение в прессе. Ему удается подкупить редакцию газеты, в которой работает его невеста Элиза, чтобы та в составе группы репортеров отправилась освещать маневры доблестной южноафриканской армии, в которых собирался особенно блеснуть Буйти, но в дело вмешивается банда панков. Их предводитель по кличке «Ужас» бросает вызов воякам, утверждая, что те ни на что не годны, и в доказательство своих слов похищает Элизу из охраняемого лагеря. Отбить девушку становится делом чести для военных. Естественно, в первых рядах на битву с панками отправляется Буйти…