# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-kani
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:00:56.310Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-kani"
name: "John Kani"
slug: "john-kani"
description: "Bonisile John Kani is a South African actor. He is known for portraying T'Chaka in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Captain America: Civil War (2016) and Black Panther (2018), Rafiki in The Lion King (2019) and Mufasa: The Lion King as well as Colonel Ulenga in the Netflix films Murder Mystery (2019) and Murder Mystery 2 (2023). Also a playwright, Kani co-wrote with Athol Fugard and Winston Ntshona the 1975 anti-apartheid play Sizwe Banzi Is Dead, as well as performing in it."
tagline: "South African actor and author (born 1942)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Kani_2015.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1943-08-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.88
  momentum:             0
  historical:           21.77709466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  233
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0434712/"
    handle:    "nm0434712"
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    title: "John Kani"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump