Neil Sandilands

Neil Sandilands is a South African actor who also works as a filmmaker and musician. He began his career at home, playing Bart Kruger on 7de Laan from 2000 to 2007, then moved to Los Angeles, where he had a part on House. Back in South Africa he took roles in popular Afrikaans films, including the award-winning Die Ballade van Robbie de Wee, and returned to the United States in 2014. In 2015 he appeared as Eugen Venter, a South African intelligence agent, on The Americans, and a year later took recurring parts as Titus on The 100 and Paco on Hap and Leonard. He appeared on NCIS in 2017 and joined season 4 of The Flash as Clifford DeVoe, also known as The Thinker. Later he played General Abbott on Sweet Tooth, earning a Children's and Family Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Performance, and was cast in Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024).