---
name: "Vusi Kunene"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/vusi-kunene"
fi1m_id: "vusi-kunene"
imdb_id: "nm0475100"
tmdb_id: 65887
wikidata_id: "Q18395801"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "12 April 1966"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 70
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-11T23:23:20.887779+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."
---

# Vusi Kunene

## Identity

Vusi Kunene

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/vusi-kunene
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** vusi-kunene
- **IMDb ID:** nm0475100
- **TMDB ID:** 65887
- **Wikidata ID:** Q18395801
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vusi_Kunene, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18395801, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0475100/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/65887

Actor. Born 12 April 1966 in Johannesburg.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 12 April 1966, Johannesburg
- **Active:** 1999–2015
- **Average Fi1m score:** 70, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 68 (1), 2010s 72 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vusi_Kunene, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18395801, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0475100/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/65887

## Streaming the US now

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

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## Biography

Vusi Kunene is a South African actor. He was born on 12 April 1966 in Meadowlands, Soweto, Johannesburg, and trained at the Wits School of Drama, graduating with a degree in Dramatic Art.

He began appearing in films and television in the mid-1990s. His screen credits include the role of Prosecutor Linde in *A Reasonable Man* (1999), Moses in *The King Is Alive* (2000), Major Moses Owiti in *Eye in the Sky* (2015), Tshekedi Khama in *A United Kingdom* (2016), and Modise in *Sniper: The Last Stand* (2025). On television he is known for playing Jack Mabaso in the soap opera *Generations* and its continuation *Generations: The Legacy*, as well as roles in *Isibaya* and *House of Zwide*. He has received several awards, including an Avanti Award for Best Actor and a Golden Horn Award.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, pindula.co.zw, mlasa.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Eye in the Sky* (2015), Fi1m 72, as Major Moses Owiti — [page](https://film.one/film/eye-in-the-sky.md)
- *A Reasonable Man* (1999), Fi1m 68, as Prosecutor Linde — [page](https://film.one/film/a-reasonable-man.md)

## Complete filmography (23)

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

- *Sniper: The Last Stand* (2025), as Modise
- *Magenta Coal* (2023), series, Actor
- *Seconds* (2023), as Seconds Khumalo
- *Eje* (2021), as Detective Dumisani
- *A United Kingdom* (2016), as Tshekedi Khama
- *Eye in the Sky* (2015), as Major Moses Owiti — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/eye-in-the-sky.md)
- *Elelwani* (2012), as Thovhele
- *Lucky* (2011), as Dumisani
- *Paradise Stop* (2011), as The General
- *A Small Town Called Descent* (2010), Actor
- *State of Violence* (2010), Actor
- *Mrs Mandela* (2010), as Dr. Nthato Motlana
- *The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency* (2009), series, as Doctor Gulubane
- *Jacob's Cross* (2007), series, as Paul Lebone
- *Witness to a Kill* (2001), as President Undala
- *The King Is Alive* (2000), as Moses
- *A Reasonable Man* (1999), as Prosecutor Linde — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/a-reasonable-man.md)
- *Yizo Yizo* (1999), series, as Vuyani
- *Fools* (1997), as Mazambane
- *Kini & Adams* (1997), as Kini
- *Cry, the Beloved Country* (1995), as Theophilus Msimangu
- *Time* (1995), Actor
- *In a Time of Violence: The Line* (1994), as Benjamin Khumalo

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