Biography
Deon Lotz is a South African actor working in film, television and theatre. Born on 20 July 1964 in Cape Town, he studied drama there and sang with the Drakensberg Boys Choir School as a teenager. He worked in the hospitality industry for thirteen years before returning to acting around 2001.
Lotz is known for his leading role in the Afrikaans film Beauty (Skoonheid) (2011), for which he received a Best Actor award at the Zurich Film Festival and a SAFTA. He played Kobie Coetzee in Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013) and won Best Supporting Male at the 2013 kykNET Silwerskermfees for Faan se Trein. He has also appeared in Sleeper's Wake (2012), Kite (2014) and various South African television series.
