Sharlto Copley

Sharlto Copley (born 27 November 1973), is a South African actor. His acting credits include lead roles in the Academy Award-nominated science fiction film District 9; the 2010 adaptation of The A-Team; the science fiction film Elysium; the science fiction horror film Europa Report; the 2014 dark fantasy adventure film Maleficent; and the 2022 thriller Beast. He also played the title character in the 2015 science fiction film Chappie; Jimmy in the 2015 science fiction action film Hardcore Henry, and starred in two seasons as Christian Walker of the TV series Powers (2015-16). In 2025 he played Leo Bonhart in season 4 of the Netflix TV series The Witcher. Quotes I was drawn to it. I actually made a choice not to do it as a career because I didn’t want people judging me, frankly. It was such a personal thing that I didn’t care what you thought. The best entertainment I’ve ever experienced, the best musicians – I remember, I was a huge Michael Jackson fan when I was growing up, and when you watch people doing a certain performance, you get a sense that they’re not asking for your permission. They’re giving you something, energetically, that’s so powerful that you have to go along with it Yeah. It’s like, they say writers can only be as interesting as the perceptions and world views that they have. Good writers usually have something more than the average person. They draw on perceptions of life – different takes on things, just observations on the way things are. You can only bring what you have or what you’ve experienced I think, in a certain way, I do that. I do it in a caricature-ish sort of way, because I like characters which are a bit larger than life – ones which make cool action figures or are entertaining in some way – but I try to deal with some element of truth, and to be coming from some sort of truthful place External links category: living people Category:Actors from South Africa Category:1973 births