Sandra Prinsloo, also known as Sandra Prinzlow, is a South African actress best known for her role as Kate Thomson in 1980 film The Gods Must Be Crazy

The Gods Must Be Crazy

The Gods Must Be Crazy is a 1980 film, written and directed by Jamie Uys. The film is the first in The Gods Must Be Crazy series of films. Set in Botswana and South Africa, it tells the story of Xi, a Sho of the Kalahari Desert whose band has no knowledge of the world beyond...

.

Prinsloo has also appeared in numerous South African television

Television

Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

 and stage

Theatre

Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...

 productions.

In 1985, Prinsloo and fellow actor John Kani

John Kani

Bonsile John Kani is a South African actor, director and playwright.He was born in New Brighton, South Africa.Kani joined The Serpent Players in Port Elizabeth in 1965 and helped to create many plays that went unpublished but were performed to a resounding reception.These...

 caused an audience walk-out when performing the play Miss Julie

Miss Julie

Miss Julie is a naturalistic play written in 1888 by August Strindberg dealing with class, love, lust, the battle of the sexes, and the interaction among them...

. In the title role, Prinsloo played a white woman seducing a black man. The play marked the first on-stage occurrence of a black man kissing a white woman under the Apartheid

History of South Africa in the apartheid era

Apartheid was a system of racial segregation enforced by the National Party governments of South Africa between 1948 and 1994, under which the rights of the majority 'non-white' inhabitants of South Africa were curtailed and white supremacy and Afrikaner minority rule was maintained...

 regime.

Partial filmography

• Soweto Green (1995)
• The Prince of Pretoria (1993)
• In the Name of Blood (1990)
• Quest for Love
  Quest for Love (1988)
  Quest for Love is a South African film released in 1988. It is directed by Helena Nogueira and stars Janna Cilliers, Sandra Prinsloo and Wayne Bowman. A journalist finds it difficult to commit herself to both a relationship and revolution. A lesbian love story, it is set against political turmoil...
  
  (1988)
• Jewel of the Gods (1989)
• The Outcast (1984)

• Claws (1982)
• The Gods Must Be Crazy
  The Gods Must Be Crazy
  The Gods Must Be Crazy is a 1980 film, written and directed by Jamie Uys. The film is the first in The Gods Must Be Crazy series of films. Set in Botswana and South Africa, it tells the story of Xi, a Sho of the Kalahari Desert whose band has no knowledge of the world beyond...
  
  (1980)
• Listen to My Story (1976)
• Target of an Assassin (1976)
• Deadly Jaws (1974)-as Sandra Prinzlow

External links

• Sandra Prinsloo at Who's Who Southern Africa