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| Hlomla Dandala |
Hlomla
Dandala is a South African actor, presenter and director, playing a lead role
in Yvonne Okoro’s upcoming movie with working the title ‘The Contract’.
He
was in Ghana a couple of months ago for the movie directed by Shirley Frimpong
Manso.
Hlomla
Dandala is best known for his television roles as Derek Nyathi in ‘Isidingo’
(1998-2001), title character Jacob Makhubu in J’acob’s Cross’ (since 2007)
and presenter of a riveting reality
dating show; ‘All You Need Is Love’ (2002-2003).
He
has had major roles in the series ‘Interrogation Room’, ‘Tsha Tsha’ and ‘Gaz’lam’
and the US daytime series ‘Scout’s Safari’, which aired on Discovery Kids and
NBC.
He
also played the role of Majola Tindleni on the second season of the SABC1 drama
series ‘Zero Tolerance’.He directed three episodes of the South African drama series ‘Hard Copy’ and seven episodes of ‘Gaz’lam’. He also directed episodes of the soapies ‘Generations’ and ‘Backstage’.
In
2006, he directed the film ‘The Bet for the Heartline’s movie series on SABC2.
His film appearances include ‘Fools’ (1997), ‘Red Dust’ (2004) and ‘Lord Of War’
(2005.)
He
has also appeared in the made-for-TV movie ‘Coup’ (2006) and in the mini-series
‘The Triangle’ (2005).
In
2007, Dandala landed a major role in the South African-Canadian medical drama
series ‘Jozi-H’.
In
2008, Dandala played the lead role of Khanyiso Phalo, a returning South African
expatriate who falls in love with a white woman, in the SABC2 mini-series ‘Land
of Thirst’, from January to February.
Hlomla
is the son of Mvume Dandala and has a sister Gqibelo. He was married to TV
presenter Candy Litchfield and has kids.
He speaks four languages: Afrikaans, English, Xhosa and Zulu
Credit:
www.tvsa.co.za
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