The Most Famous
ACTORS from Kenya
This page contains a list of the greatest Kenyan Actors. The pantheon dataset contains 13,578 Actors, 3 of which were born in Kenya. This makes Kenya the birth place of the 77th most number of Actors behind Uzbekistan, and Nepal.
Top 3
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Kenyan Actors of all time. This list of famous Kenyan Actors is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Deep Roy (b. 1949)
With an HPI of 55.52, Deep Roy is the most famous Kenyan Actor. His biography has been translated into 19 different languages on wikipedia.
Gurdeep Roy (born Mohinder Purba; 1 December 1957), known professionally as Deep Roy, is a Kenyan and British actor, puppeteer, and stuntman. At 132 centimetres (4 ft 4 in) tall, he has often been cast as diminutive characters, such as Teeny Weeny in The NeverEnding Story, all the Oompa-Loompas in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Keenser in Star Trek and its sequels, and in television series such as The X-Files, Doctor Who, and Eastbound & Down.
2. Edi Gathegi (b. 1979)
With an HPI of 49.37, Edi Gathegi is the 2nd most famous Kenyan Actor. His biography has been translated into 29 different languages.
Edi Mūe Gathegi (born March 10, 1979) is a Kenyan-American actor. He appeared as a recurring character, Dr. Jeffrey Cole (aka "Big Love"), in the television series House, as Cheese in the 2007 film Gone Baby Gone, Laurent in the films Twilight and its sequel The Twilight Saga: New Moon, and as Darwin in X-Men: First Class. Gathegi also featured in the AMC series Into the Badlands as Baron Jacobee. He has also been a recurring character in the NBC television series The Blacklist as Matias Solomon, an operative for a covert organization. Gathegi reprised the role in the 2016–2017 season crime thriller, The Blacklist: Redemption. He has also played a leading role in Startup, a television drama series on Crackle. Since 2022, Gathegi has played engineer and entrepreneur Dev Ayesa in the Apple TV+ original science fiction space drama series For All Mankind. He is set to play the role of Mister Terrific in James Gunn's film Superman (2025).
3. Zena Marshall (1926 - 2009)
With an HPI of 49.24, Zena Marshall is the 3rd most famous Kenyan Actor. Her biography has been translated into 19 different languages.
Zena Moyra Marshall (1 January 1926 – 10 July 2009) was a British actress of film and television, who was born in Kenya.
People
Pantheon has 3 people classified as Kenyan actors born between 1926 and 1979. Of these 3, 2 (66.67%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Kenyan actors include Deep Roy, and Edi Gathegi. The most famous deceased Kenyan actors include Zena Marshall.
