Gérard Rudolf
- Actor
- Writer
- Director
He was born in Pretoria, South Africa on 20 April 1966. After
completing high school in 1983 he spent two years in the military
(compulsory!!). He drifted through the USA in 1986. 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 keft the company in
1991 to start his own theatre company called Makeshift Moon,
specialising in original South African works. He received some
noteriety as a gutsy actor and outspoken oponent to the Apartheid
regime at the time. 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 youngest head of a drama school in
the history of South African drama schools at City Varsity in Cape
Town. He has worked with actors such as Dennis Hopper, Peter Weller and
Brian Brown. He will be seen in the upcoming Disney feature, _Young Black Stallion, The (2002)_
and the soon to be released Dutch film, Adrenaline (2003).