Tongayi Chirisa

Tongayi Chirisa, a Zimbabwean actor and singer, has worked in film, television and radio. He attended Lomagundi College and studied live performance at AFDA, and won a Best Actor for Film and Television Award for the 2004 film Tanyaradzwa. He played Detective Trevor Davies in the Zimbabwean television series Studio 263 and the lead in the comedy Mr. Bones 2: Back from the Past. He appeared in the miniseries Rough and in Skin (2008), an international film directed by Anthony Fabian that also featured Sam Neill, and played a lead in the SABC 1 series Redemption. On television he was Man Friday in the NBC series Crusoe and Father Nicholas on The Jim Gaffigan Show, and he appeared in Sleepy Hollow. He also played Cheetor in Transformers: Rise of the Beasts and has sung, starred in the radio drama Mopani Junction, and won NAMA Awards.