# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tongayi-chirisa
# Generated: 2026-08-15T15:10:43.023Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tongayi-chirisa"
name: "Tongayi Chirisa"
slug: "tongayi-chirisa"
description: "Tongayi Arnold Chirisa is a Zimbabwean actor and singer known for playing Man Friday on NBC's Crusoe television series, Father Nicholas on The Jim Gaffigan Show, Hekule on Leon Schuster's Mr. Bones 2: Back from the Past, and Cheetor in Transformers: Rise of the Beasts."
tagline: "Zimbabwean actor"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/iNUnPz0fcz2kGYZ5lhkXo042iAl.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1981-08-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.91
  momentum:             4.58380843785633
  historical:           9.607822666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2475161/"
    handle:    "nm2475161"
sources:
  - url: "https://sn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongayi_Chirisa"
    title: "Tongayi Chirisa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongayi_Chirisa"
    title: "Tongayi Chirisa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86%D8%BA%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%8A_%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B2%D8%A7"
    title: "تونغايي شيريزا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%89_%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%A7"
    title: "تونجاى كيريسا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://dag.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongayi_Chirisa"
    title: "Tongayi Chirisa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongayi_Chirisa"
    title: "Tongayi Chirisa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongayi_Chirisa"
    title: "Tongayi Chirisa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86%DA%AF%D8%A7%DB%8C%DB%8C_%DA%A9%DB%8C%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%B3%D8%A7"
    title: "تونگایی کیریسا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ff.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongayi_Chirisa"
    title: "Tongayi Chirisa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongayi_Chirisa"
    title: "Tongayi Chirisa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongayi_Chirisa"
    title: "Tongayi Chirisa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7821058"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/105875"
    title: "Tongayi Chirisa"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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