Gérard Rudolf


Gérard Rudolf is a South African film actor and poet. He started his career in 1992 with Arende II TV Series.

Biography

Gérard Rudolf was born in Pretoria, South Africa on 20 April 1966. After completing high school in 1983 he did two years compulsory military service. In 1987 he joined the Drama school at the University of Pretoria where he graduated in 1989.
He then joined the CAPAB drama company for a year performing on stage in Shakespeare plays, comedies and dramas. He left the company in 1991 to start his own theater company called Makeshift Moon, specializing in original South African works. He received some notoriety as a gutsy actor and outspoken opponent to the Apartheid regime at the time, he also campaigned against forced military conscription.
It was also in 1991 that he started developing an interest in film and appeared in numerous leads and supports over the next decade. In 1998 he became the head of drama at CityVarsity in Cape Town until 2002.
He has worked with prolific actors such as Dennis Hopper, Peter Weller and Bryan Brown.
He left Cape Town and moved to The United Kingdom in 2002. But decided to move back to South Africa in 2010. He currently continues his acting and directing career in films, and also directs theater.
He is a poet, and published his first collection of poetic writings in 2009, named "Orphaned Latitudes"
He is a well regarded photographer and his photographs of Johannesburg can be viewed on his Instagram page at gerard.rudolf, or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/grudolfpics
His mother tongue is Afrikaans, but he is also fluent in English. He currently lives is Johannesburg.

Filmography

Selected Filmography :
YearFilmRoleNotes
1992Arende IITV Series
1993Arende IIITV Series
1997-1998The Adventures of SinbadTV Series
1998Paljas
2001Styx
2001Dust
2002The Piano Player
2003Adrenaline
2003The Young Black StallionRhamon-
2008TransitoPriester-
2012Wolwedans in die Skemer
2012Wild at HeartTV Series
2013Layla FourieVan Niekerk
2013Chander PaharDiego AlvarezBengali Film