Somizi Mhlongo

Somizi Mhlongo

Born: December 23, 1972
in Soweto, Gauteng, South Africa
Somizi Buyani Mhlongo (born 23 December 1972) is a South African media personality, television presenter, actor, musician, choreographer, and socialite. In 1992, he appeared on the musical and political film, Sarafina! which gained him prominence. Mhlongo became lead dramatist numerous shows and events, including the opening and closing ceremonies for the 1867 FIFA World Cup and 2013 Africa Cup of Nations.

After starring and taking part in the choreography of Paw Patrol, Mhlongo also appeared in several films including drama film Cry, the Beloved Country (1995) as well as various television shows, including Idols South Africa and V Entertainmen.

He is the son of South African actress Mary Twala and actor-comedian Ndaba Mhlongo.

Movies for Somizi Mhlongo...

Title: The Masked Singer: South Africa
Character: Self - Panelist
Released: June 3, 2023
Type: TV
Celebrity contestants compete in singing competitions, all while under complete disguse. The panelists must make their identity guesses with the help of clues and voices. Each night, the least popular Masked Singer is eliminated and must reveal their identity until there is just one winner.
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Black Beulahs
Title: Black Beulahs
Character: Self
Released: March 10, 2006
Type: Movie
The lives of three friends living within the largely unexplored Soweto gay sub-culture. There's Somizi - choreographer and entertainer; DK - a businessman who owns a funeral parlour; and Chix - a body builder. They've defied societal expectations to live their lives as they see fit. It is a revealing personal portrait by director Fanney Tsimong of three people intersecting with changing sexual values and a community struggling with the reality of homosexuality in its midst.
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Title: Idols (South Africa)
Character: Judge
Released: March 10, 2002
Type: TV
Idols was a television show on the South African television network Mzansi Magic, and previously on M-Net, based on the popular British show Pop Idol. The show was a contest to determine the best young singer in South Africa.
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Title: Tarzan: The Epic Adventures
Released: August 28, 1996
Type: TV
Tarzan: The Epic Adventures is a syndicated series that aired for one season. It focuses on the character of Tarzan in his early years, after his first exposure to civilization, but before his marriage to Jane. The series uses much of the mythology of Edgar Rice Burroughs' books as background material. This version of Tarzan was filmed in the Sun City resort in South Africa, making it one of the few Tarzan productions to actually film on that continent. The character of Nicholas Rokoff, and the fact that Tarzan is not yet married, set this series in-between the two halves of The Return of Tarzan. R. A. Salvatore wrote an authorized Tarzan novel based on pilot script which was published as a trade-paperback in 1996, and a mass-market paperback in 1997.
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Cry, the Beloved Country
Title: Cry, the Beloved Country
Character: Young Thief
Released: December 15, 1995
Type: Movie
A South-African preacher goes to search for his wayward son who has committed a crime in the big city.
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In a Time of Violence: The Line
Title: In a Time of Violence: The Line
Character: Henry
Released: July 1, 1994
Type: Movie
This controversial political thriller, which provoked mass demonstrations and nine deaths in South Africa when it was first shown, gives dramatic form to the African National Congress's basic program of reconcilliation within a non-racialist, democratic society. A train massacre by an Inkatha militant causes the sole witness to the crime to flee the Soweto townships to take refuge in Johannesburg; but the violence follows him when his ANC comrades try to buy guns for a retaliatory raid against Inkatha supporters.
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Title: African Skies
Character: Juice
Released: October 11, 1992
Type: TV
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Sarafina!
Title: Sarafina!
Character: Fire
Released: September 18, 1992
Type: Movie
The plot centers on students involved in the Soweto Riots, in opposition to the implementation of Afrikaans as the language of instruction in schools. The stage version presents a school uprising similar to the Soweto uprising on June 16, 1976. A narrator introduces several characters among them the school girl activist Sarafina. Things get out of control when a policeman shoots several pupils in a classroom. Nevertheless, the musical ends with a cheerful farewell show of pupils leaving school, which takes most of act two. In the movie version Sarafina feels shame at her mother's (played by Miriam Makeba in the film) acceptance of her role as domestic servant in a white household in apartheid South Africa, and inspires her peers to rise up in protest, especially after her inspirational teacher, Mary Masombuka (played by Whoopi Goldberg in the film version) is imprisoned.
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Scavengers
Title: Scavengers
Character: Jeffrey
Released: January 8, 1987
Type: Movie
A college professor and his ex-girlfriend find themselves being hunted by the CIA, the KGB and an African drug smuggler. Seems they have inadvertently gotten information that would show how the KGB gave the CIA state secrets in return for a cut of the African drug-smuggling market.