# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/darrell-roodt
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:13:59.201Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/darrell-roodt"
name: "Darrell Roodt"
slug: "darrell-roodt"
description: "Darrell James Roodt is a South African film director, screenwriter and producer. He is probably most well known for his 1992 film Sarafina! which starred actress Whoopi Goldberg. Roodt has worked with Patrick Swayze in Father Hood, James Earl Jones in Cry, the Beloved Country and Ice Cube in Dangerous Ground."
tagline: "South African film director"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1962-04-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.75
  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.024804
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0740213/"
    handle:    "nm0740213"
sources:
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    title: "Даррелл Рудт"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Darrell Roodt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "داريل رودت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "داريل رودت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darrell_Roodt"
    title: "Darrell Roodt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darrell_Roodt"
    title: "Darrell Roodt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darrell_Roodt"
    title: "Darrell Roodt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darrell_Roodt"
    title: "Darrell Roodt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darrell_Roodt"
    title: "Darrell Roodt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darrell_Roodt"
    title: "Darrell Roodt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darrell_Roodt"
    title: "Darrell Roodt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darrell_Roodt"
    title: "Darrell Roodt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darrell_Roodt"
    title: "Darrell Roodt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darrell_Roodt"
    title: "Darrell Roodt"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3016485"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump