The multi-award-winning legendary Actor, Director, and Playwright, Dr. John Kani has been honored with an international award.
He was honored with a Pragnell Shakespeare Award. The award is an international award presented each year on the occasion of Shakespeare Birthday Celebration luncheon in Stratford-upon-Avon.
This was announced by the Shakespeare Institution in a recent post on Twitter. The post made reads;
“Congratulations to John Kani who has been recognized with this year’s Pragnell Shakespeare Award! Normally we’d have the Birthday Luncheon to toast his achievements — online this year, but we hope to welcome him back to Stratford-upon-Avon soon. Party popper #ShakespearesBirthday.”
The veteran actor is known for portraying T’Chaka in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Captain America: Civil War and Black Panther, Rafiki in the 2019 remake of The Lion King and Colonel Ulenga in the Netflix film Murder Mystery.
He survived a murder attempt after becoming the first black actor to kiss a white actress on a South African stage, in Miss Julie at Cape Town’s Baxter Theatre in 1985. The attack left him with 11 stab wounds and a prosthetic right eye.
On 20 February 2010, he received a SAFTA Life Time award. He has also received the Avanti Hall of Fame Award from the South African film, television, and advertising industries, an M-Net Plum award, and a Clio award in New York. Other awards include the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation Award for the year 2000 and the Olive Schreiner Prize for 2005. He was voted 51st in the Top 100 Great South Africans in 2004.
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