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Leleti Khumalo

1970 - Today

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Leleti Khumalo (born 30 March 1970) is a South African actress known for her leading role in the movie and stage play Sarafina! and for her roles in other films such as Hotel Rwanda, Yesterday and Invictus, as well as the soap opera Imbewu: The Seed where she plays Nokubonga "MaZulu" Bhengu and on Uzalo as MaNzuza. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leleti Khumalo has received more than 927,199 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Leleti Khumalo is the 12,508th most popular actor (down from 11,423rd in 2019), the 369th most popular biography from South Africa (down from 311th in 2019) and the 34th most popular South African Actor.

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  • 28.90

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  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.46

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  • 3.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Leleti Khumalo ranks 12,508 out of 13,578. Before her are Mahira Khan, Chai Hansen, Nimrat Kaur, Christian Cooke, Kristin Booth, and Riya Sen. After her are Skyler Shaye, Chance Perdomo, Logan Miller, James Adomian, Chiaki Omigawa, and Daniel Portman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1970, Leleti Khumalo ranks 1,001. Before her are Mike Vallely, Tiger Hillarp Persson, Aled Jones, Kunio Nagayama, Irv Gotti, and Kevin Campbell. After her are Omar Abdullah, MC Lyte, Hiroshi Miyazawa, Makoto Yonekura, Doug Christie, and Brad Rowe.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Leleti Khumalo ranks 369 out of 454. Before her are Roy Wegerle (1964), Panagiotis Retsos (1998), Alice Phoebe Lou (1993), Dean Geyer (1986), Thulani Serero (1990), and Lucas Thwala (1981). After her are Greg Minnaar (1981), Ryan De Vries (1991), Rolene Strauss (1992), Katlego Mphela (1984), AB de Villiers (1984), and Rowen Fernández (1978).

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Among ACTORS In South Africa

Among actors born in South Africa, Leleti Khumalo ranks 34. Before her are Kandyse McClure (1980), Johnny Flynn (1983), Justine Waddell (1976), Tammin Sursok (1983), Tanit Phoenix (1980), and Dean Geyer (1986). After her are Thuso Mbedu (1991), Shannon Kook (1987), Jessica Marais (1985), Ohanna Shivanand (1982), and Terry Pheto (1981).

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Television and Movie Roles

Invictus
Mary
Newly elected President Nelson Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's rugby union team as they make their historic run to the 1995 Rugby World Cup Championship match.
Dec 11th 20097.183 / 10
Hotel Rwanda
Fedens
Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly unnoticed by the rest of the world. Hotel owner Paul Rusesabagina houses over a thousand refuges in his hotel in attempt to save their lives.
Dec 22nd 20047.717 / 10
Sarafina!
Sarafina
The plot centers on students involved in the Soweto Riots, in opposition to the implementation of Afrikaans as the language of instruction in schools. The stage version presents a school uprising similar to the Soweto uprising on June 16, 1976. A narrator introduces several characters among them the school girl activist Sarafina. Things get out of control when a policeman shoots several pupils in a classroom. Nevertheless, the musical ends with a cheerful farewell show of pupils leaving school, which takes most of act two. In the movie version Sarafina feels shame at her mother's (played by Miriam Makeba in the film) acceptance of her role as domestic servant in a white household in apartheid South Africa, and inspires her peers to rise up in protest, especially after her inspirational teacher, Mary Masombuka (played by Whoopi Goldberg in the film version) is imprisoned.
Sep 18th 19926.1 / 10