ACTOR

Nǃxau ǂToma

1944 - 2003

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Nǃxau ǂToma (short: Nǃxau, alternative spelling Gcao Tekene Çoma; 16 December 1944 – 5 July 2003) was a Namibian bush farmer and actor who starred in the 1980 film The Gods Must Be Crazy and its sequels, in which he played the Kalahari Bushman Xixo. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nǃxau ǂToma has received more than 1,466,054 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Nǃxau ǂToma is the 543rd most popular actor (down from 498th in 2019), the 3rd most popular biography from Namibia (down from 1st in 2019) and the most popular Namibian Actor.

Nǃxau ǂtoma is most famous for its red-orange clay. The clay is used to make a variety of products, such as pottery, bricks, and tiles.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 62.66

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.06

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Nǃxau ǂToma ranks 543 out of 13,578. Before him are Richard Dreyfuss, Eleonora Duse, Tippi Hedren, Karlheinz Böhm, Brian Cox, and Mel Ferrer. After him are Ken Watanabe, Maria Schell, Raul Julia, Louise Fletcher, Mae West, and Nastassja Kinski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Nǃxau ǂToma ranks 74. Before him are Abdul Hamid, Klaus Nomi, Claudia Mori, Bernhard Schlink, Jonathan Demme, and Gérard Mourou. After him are Kary Mullis, Ashraf Marwan, R. Lee Ermey, W. G. Sebald, Gianni Morandi, and Günter Netzer. Among people deceased in 2003, Nǃxau ǂToma ranks 37. Before him are Compay Segundo, Leon Uris, Franco Modigliani, Richard Crenna, Leslie Cheung, and Bertram Brockhouse. After him are Celia Cruz, Horst Buchholz, Edgar F. Codd, David Dacko, Franco Corelli, and Jack Elam.

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In Namibia

Among people born in Namibia, Nǃxau ǂToma ranks 3 out of 15. Before him are Sam Nujoma (1929), and Hage Geingob (1941). After him are Hifikepunye Pohamba (1936), Saara Kuugongelwa (1967), Nahas Angula (1943), Theo-Ben Gurirab (1938), Frankie Fredericks (1967), Behati Prinsloo (1988), Collin Benjamin (1978), Percy Montgomery (1974), and Michelle McLean (1972).

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Among ACTORS In Namibia

Among actors born in Namibia, Nǃxau ǂToma ranks 1. 

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Television and Movie Roles

The Gods Must Be Crazy II
Xixo
Xixo is back again. This time, his children accidentally stow away on a fast-moving poachers' truck, unable to get off, and Xixo sets out to rescue them. Along the way, he encounters a couple of soldiers trying to capture each other and a pilot and passenger of a small plane, who are each having a few problems of their own.
Jul 1st 19897 / 10
The Gods Must Be Crazy
Xi
A Coca-Cola bottle dropped from an airplane raises havoc among a normally peaceful tribe of African bushmen who believe it to be a utensil of the gods.
Sep 10th 19807.3 / 10
Crazy Safari
N!xau The Bushman
Two guys, one of them a magician, are transporting an ancient chinese vampire who can only be controlled by a series of yellow tapes, and is the ancestor of the other guy. On the way, while flying over Africa, their plane stalls. And of all places, where do they land? That's right, in the village of the tribe of "The Gods Must Be Crazy".
Jul 5th 19915.3 / 10