# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marius-weyers
# Generated: 2026-09-07T18:59:42.674Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/marius-weyers"
name: "Marius Weyers"
slug: "marius-weyers"
description: "Marius Weyers is a South African actor. He was married to Yvette Weyers (1946-2023), an artist, who died on 11 July 2023. He lives in Rooi-Els in the Western Cape. He received international attention playing Andrew Steyn, a bumbling scientist in the movie The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980). He appeared in Blood Diamond (2006)."
tagline: "South African actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Marius-weyers_1.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: "1945-02-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.64
  momentum:             1.256345177664975
  historical:           13.26898133333333
  currentAttention:     6.979695431472082
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0923366/"
    handle:    "nm0923366"
sources:
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    title: "Marius Weyers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marius_Weyers"
    title: "Marius Weyers"
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    title: "ماريوس وايرز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Marius Weyers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marius_Weyers"
    title: "Marius Weyers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marius_Weyers"
    title: "Marius Weyers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marius_Weyers"
    title: "Marius Weyers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%B3_%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%B2"
    title: "ماریوس ویرز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marius_Weyers"
    title: "Marius Weyers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marius_Weyers"
    title: "Marius Weyers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marius_Weyers"
    title: "Marius Weyers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marius_Weyers"
    title: "Marius Weyers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marius_Weyers"
    title: "Marius Weyers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "マリウス・ウェイヤーズ"
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    title: "Вейерс, Мариус"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/16758"
    title: "Marius Weyers"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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