# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/zeka-laplaine
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:57:30.656Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/zeka-laplaine"
name: "Zeka Laplaine"
slug: "zeka-laplaine"
description: "Zeka Laplaine, sometimes credited as José Laplaine, is a director and actor from Ilebo in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The child of a Portuguese father and Congolese mother, he moved to Europe when he was 18. His 1996 short film Le Clandestin was featured at the 2010 Amakula International Film Festival in Uganda. He portrayed a cowboy alongside Danny Glover in Death in Timbuktu, a film within a film in the Council of Europe Film Award-winning film, Bamako. Laplaine is a member of France's \"Guilde Africaine des Realisateurs et Producteurs\"."
tagline: "Congolese director and actor"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/pFX2YZv41xogueqNdnufHO8yX3s.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1960"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.22
  momentum:             11.05263157894737
  historical:           8.80306
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0487617/"
    handle:    "nm0487617"
sources:
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeka_Laplaine"
    title: "Zeka Laplaine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B2%D9%88%D9%83%D8%A7_%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "زوكا لابلين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7_%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%BE%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "زيكا لاپلاين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeka_Laplaine"
    title: "Zeka Laplaine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeka_Laplaine"
    title: "Zeka Laplaine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeka_Laplaine"
    title: "Zeka Laplaine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gpe.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeka_Laplaine"
    title: "Zeka Laplaine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeka_Laplaine"
    title: "Zeka Laplaine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeka_Laplaine"
    title: "Zeka Laplaine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeka_Laplaine"
    title: "Zeka Laplaine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3575116"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1324342"
    title: "Zeka Laplaine"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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