---
name: "Sylvaine Strike"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/sylvaine-strike"
fi1m_id: "sylvaine-strike"
imdb_id: "nm0834501"
tmdb_id: 230818
wikidata_id: "Q7660639"
roles: ["Actor"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T23:02:46.165546+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."
---

# Sylvaine Strike

## Identity

Sylvaine Strike

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/sylvaine-strike
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** sylvaine-strike
- **IMDb ID:** nm0834501
- **TMDB ID:** 230818
- **Wikidata ID:** Q7660639
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvaine_Strike, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7660639, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0834501/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/230818

Actor. Born in Pretoria, South Africa.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Also known as:** Sylvain Strike
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvaine_Strike, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7660639, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0834501/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/230818

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*District 9*](https://film.one/film/district-9.md) (81)

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

## Biography

Sylvaine Strike is a South African actress, writer and theatre director based in Cape Town. She trained at the University of Cape Town, graduating with a drama degree in 1993, and later studied at the Jacques Lecoq School in Paris from 1998 to 2000, specialising in mime and clown.

She is co-founder of Fortune Cookie Theatre and has appeared in films including *District 9* (2009) as Dr Katrina McKenzie, *An Act of Defiance* (2017) and *Resort to Love* (2021). Television credits include *Black Sails* (2014) as Netta and *Those Who Can't*. Strike has won multiple Naledi Theatre Awards for acting and directing, and was awarded the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres in 2018.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *District 9* (2009), Fi1m 81, as Dr Katrina McKenzie — [page](https://film.one/film/district-9.md)

## Complete filmography (11)

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

- *Resort to Love* (2021), Actor
- *An Act of Defiance* (2017), as Hilda Bernstein
- *Black Sails* (2014), series, as Netta
- *Winnie Mandela* (2011), as Jan Hofmeyer Woman
- *Spud* (2010), as San Sister
- *Liefling* (2010), as Katryn van Staden
- *District 9* (2009), as Dr Katrina McKenzie — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/district-9.md)
- *Red Dust* (2004), as Woman at House
- *Pavement* (2002), as Sylvia
- *Ali* (2001), as ORTF Interviewer — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/ali.md)
- *Askari* (2001), as Susan

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres 2019: Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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