# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/zenzo-ngqobe
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:21:26.965Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/zenzo-ngqobe"
name: "Zenzo Ngqobe"
slug: "zenzo-ngqobe"
description: "Zenzo Ngqobe is a South African actor. He is known for portraying Butcher in Gavin Hood's 2005 Oscar-winning film Tsotsi. He is also known for portraying Atang in the 2013 film The Forgotten Kingdom. For his work in the television series The River, Ngqobe was nominated for the 2019 SAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Telenovela."
tagline: "South African actor"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/oBNbcveMl9Qc6WumJiVPkKxQVwm.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1983-09-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.76
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.608676
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1970636/"
    handle:    "nm1970636"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Zenzo_Ngqobe"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenzo_Ngqobe"
    title: "Zenzo Ngqobe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B2%D9%88_%D9%86%D8%BA%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%8A"
    title: "زينزو نغوبي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenzo_Ngqobe"
    title: "Zenzo Ngqobe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenzo_Ngqobe"
    title: "Zenzo Ngqobe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenzo_Ngqobe"
    title: "Zenzo Ngqobe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenzo_Ngqobe"
    title: "Zenzo Ngqobe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q71746276"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/13095"
    title: "Zenzo Ngqobe"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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