Deon Lotz

The internationally award winning actor Deon Lotz studied drama in Cape Town before entering a career of thirteen years in the Hospitality industry where he opened and managed various five star hotels in and around Cape Town.
Deon returned to acting fulltime in 2001 and has been in a variety of theatre, television, radio and film productions.
In 2008 he received a Fleur du Cap - Best Actor theatre nomination for his performance in Wrestlers at Artscape.
He was nominated for a Fiesta Theatre Award as Best Actor in the play – "Agterplaas".
2011 has been a great year in Film for Deon. Roepman was released and Skoonheid /Beauty premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and won the Queer Palm Award as it was part of the Uncertain Regard section of the competition. The film also won an award at the Durban Film Festival in South Africa and Deon won the Best Actor award at the Zurich Film Festival and the SAFTA Best Actor award in South Africa 2012.
Sleepers Wake and Flight of the Storks are two more films that were completed last year and due for release during 2012.
Deon and his family live in Cape Town where he completed filming on "Verraaiers", Black South Easter, Vloeksteen and Long Walk to Freedom.

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