# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/henry-cele
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:49:19.620Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/henry-cele"
name: "Henry Cele"
slug: "henry-cele"
description: "Henry Cele was a South African football player and actor. In the 1960s Cele became a goal keeper for the South African Soccer League and played the sport until 1978. In 1981, he was asked to audition for the role of the Zulu Warrior King Shaka kaSenzangakhona on stage for a production that played for a year. For the 1986 television miniseries Shaka Zulu, he reprised the role and gained significant fame worldwide."
tagline: "Actor (1949-2007)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Shaka_of_Zululand_statue_2015_London_(1).JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1949-01-30"
deathDate: "2007-11-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.27
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.86368933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  230
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0147962/"
    handle:    "nm0147962"
sources:
  - url: "https://zu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cele"
    title: "Henry Cele"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cele"
    title: "Henry Cele"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cele"
    title: "Henry Cele"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cele"
    title: "Henry Cele"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%86%D8%B1%D9%8A_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A_(%D9%85%D9%85%D8%AB%D9%84)"
    title: "هنري سيلي (ممثل)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cele"
    title: "Henry Cele"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cele"
    title: "Henry Cele"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cele"
    title: "Henry Cele"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cele"
    title: "Henry Cele"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cele"
    title: "Henry Cele"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cele"
    title: "Henry Cele"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%80%D1%96_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B5"
    title: "Генрі Селе"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q983166"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/143476"
    title: "Henry Cele"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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