# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/natalia-da-rocha
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:57:42.215Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/natalia-da-rocha"
name: "Natalia Da Rocha"
slug: "natalia-da-rocha"
description: "Natalia Da Rocha is a South African actress, director, youth activist and businesswoman. She is one of the few persons of colour to appear in entertainment media during the Apartheid era. In 1981 she was the first Coloured to graduate with a drama degree from the Afrikaans-dominant Stellenbosch University. Beginning 1987 she was the first woman of colour to star in a Sun City Extravaganza. In 1992 she became the first South African star to perform publicly in Madagascar. She has had roles in musicals such as Ain't Misbehavin', Midnight Blues, and Godspell. Da Rocha was one of 40 people inducted into the S.A. Legends Museum on 26 January 2020 in Johannesburg."
tagline: "South African actor, performer, director, community developer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Natalia_da_Rocha_(cropped).jpeg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           35.17
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.735565333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2665755/"
    handle:    "nm2665755"
sources:
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalia_da_Rocha"
    title: "Natalia da Rocha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalia_da_Rocha"
    title: "Natalia da Rocha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalia_da_Rocha"
    title: "Natalia da Rocha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalia_da_Rocha"
    title: "Natalia da Rocha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalia_da_Rocha"
    title: "Natalia da Rocha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%84%DB%8C%DB%81_%D8%AF%D8%A7_%D8%B1%D9%88%DA%86%D8%A7"
    title: "نتالیہ دا روچا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6968103"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1150798"
    title: "Natalia Da Rocha"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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