---
name: "Avril Beukes"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/avril-beukes"
fi1m_id: "avril-beukes"
imdb_id: "nm0079567"
tmdb_id: 23827
wikidata_id: "Q95729728"
roles: ["Editor"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-11T23:23:35.787554+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Avril Beukes

## Identity

Avril Beukes

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/avril-beukes
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** avril-beukes
- **IMDb ID:** nm0079567
- **TMDB ID:** 23827
- **Wikidata ID:** Q95729728
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q95729728, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0079567/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/23827

Editor. Born in South Africa.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q95729728, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0079567/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/23827

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*A Reasonable Man*](https://film.one/film/a-reasonable-man.md) (68)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Avril Beukes is a South African film editor. She began her career in South Africa, where she edited feature films including *Paljas* (1997) and *A Reasonable Man* (1999). She edited the debut feature films of directors Tom Hooper and Gavin Hood, and worked extensively with Darrell James Roodt.

In 2004 she edited both *Red Dust* and *Yesterday*. For *Red Dust* she received the inaugural Golden Horn Award for Feature Film Editing in 2006. *Yesterday* was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. *Little One* (2013), which she edited, was South Africa's entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

She later relocated to the United States, where her credits include the feature *Respect* (2021) and television series such as *Queen Sugar*.

*Sources: imdb.com, hippotonomy.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *A Reasonable Man* (1999), Fi1m 68, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/a-reasonable-man.md)

## Complete filmography (31)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Murdaugh: Death in the Family* (2025), series, Editor
- *The Big Cigar* (2024), series, Editor
- *Respect* (2021), Editor
- *Irene & Marie* (2015), Editor
- *And Then There Was You* (2013), Editor
- *Dystopia* (2013), Editor
- *Stealing Time* (2013), Editor
- *Little One* (2013), Editor
- *Fanie Fourie's Lobola* (2013), Editor
- *Amy Winehouse: Fallen Star* (2012), Editor
- *Ties That Bind* (2011), Editor
- *Take Me Home* (2011), Thanks
- *Not Since You* (2009), Editor
- *Pastor Brown* (2009), Editor
- *Reach for Me* (2008), Editor
- *Prey* (2007), Editor
- *Moondance Alexander* (2007), Editor
- *Yesterday* (2004), Editor, Script Editor
- *Dracula 3000* (2004), Editor
- *Red Dust* (2004), Editor
- *Sumuru* (2003), Editor
- *Mr. Bones* (2001), Assistant Picture Editor
- *The Long Run* (2001), Editor
- *Second Skin* (2000), Editor
- *The Father* (2000), Editor
- *A Reasonable Man* (1999), Editor — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/a-reasonable-man.md)
- *The Storekeeper* (1998), Editor
- *Paljas* (1998), Editor
- *A Pot of Winter* (1992), Editor
- *Agter Elke Man* (1990), Editor
- *Fiela's Child* (1988), Editor

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