---
name: "Kema Sikazwe"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/kema-sikazwe"
fi1m_id: "kema-sikazwe"
imdb_id: "nm8585681"
tmdb_id: 1766059
roles: ["Actor"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 79
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-07T19:45:29.957989+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."
---

# Kema Sikazwe

## Identity

Kema Sikazwe

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/kema-sikazwe
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** kema-sikazwe
- **IMDb ID:** nm8585681
- **TMDB ID:** 1766059
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8585681/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1766059

Actor. Born in Zambia.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Active:** 2016–present
- **Also known as:** Kema Slkazwe
- **Average Fi1m score:** 79, as actor, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 81 (2), 2020s 75 (1)
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 1 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Crime 1
- **Screen time:** 3 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $21m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8585681/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1766059

## Streaming the US now

- **AMC+:** [*I, Daniel Blake*](https://film.one/film/i-daniel-blake.md) (82)

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

## Biography

Kema Sikazwe is an actor and musician who performs as Kema Kay. He played the role of China in the 2016 film *I, Daniel Blake* directed by Ken Loach.

Born in Zambia, Sikazwe moved to the West End of Newcastle at the age of three. He developed a passion for rap, singing and songwriting at a local youth project during his teenage years. He later wrote and performed the autobiographical one-man show *Shine* at Live Theatre in Newcastle, which toured including to Edinburgh.

His other screen credits include *Lady Macbeth* (2016), in which he appeared as a farmhand credited as Kema Slkazwe, and *The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe* (2022) as a police TV interviewee. He has also worked as an associate artist at Live Theatre and delivers songwriting workshops.

*Sources: imdb.com, chroniclelive.co.uk, theguardian.com, skimstone.org.uk.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe* (2022), Fi1m 75, as Police TV Interviewee — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-thief-his-wife-and-the-canoe.md)
- *I, Daniel Blake* (2016), Fi1m 82, as China — [page](https://film.one/film/i-daniel-blake.md)
- *Lady Macbeth* (2016), Fi1m 80, as Farmhand #3 — [page](https://film.one/film/lady-macbeth.md)

## Complete filmography (3)

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

- *The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe* (2022), series, as Police TV Interviewee — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-thief-his-wife-and-the-canoe.md)
- *Lady Macbeth* (2016), as Farmhand #3 — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/lady-macbeth.md)
- *I, Daniel Blake* (2016), as China — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/i-daniel-blake.md)

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