Biography
Sharlto Copley (born November 27, 1973) is a South African producer, actor, and director who has produced and co-directed short films which have appeared at the Cannes Film Festival, as well as commercials and music videos. He is perhaps best known for playing the roles of Wikus van der Merwe in the Oscar-nominated science fiction film District 9 and H. M. Murdock in the 2010 adaptation of The A-Team. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sharlto Copley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full lis...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Heads of State
2025
as Agent Coop
The UK Prime Minister and US President have a public rivalry that risks their countries' alliance. But when they become targets of a powerful enemy, t...
Boy Kills World
2024
as Glen Van Der Koy
When his family is murdered, a deaf-mute named Boy escapes to the jungle and is trained by a mysterious shaman to repress his childish imagination and...
Monkey Man
2024
as Tiger
Kid is an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten...
ZEF - The Story of Die Antwoord
2024
as Self
South African producer / director JON DAY spent the last 5 years making a documentary about the mysterious rap-rave group, DIE ANTWOORD. Art directed ...
Beast
2022
as Martin Battles
A recently widowed man and his two teenage daughters travel to a game reserve in South Africa. However, their journey of healing soon turns into a fig...
Oats Studios: Volume 1
2021
as God
A compilation of shorts, diverse experimental content and more weird stuff spread directly from the devious mind of the South African film director Ne...
Ted K
2021
as Ted
The True Story of Ted Kaczynski, the infamous Unabomber, who wants to destroy modern technology to create a world for himself in the Montana wildernes...
Ted K
2021
Producer
The True Story of Ted Kaczynski, the infamous Unabomber, who wants to destroy modern technology to create a world for himself in the Montana wildernes...
Seal Team
2021
as Switch (voice)
After his best friend is killed in a shark attack, Quinn, a lovable yet tenacious seal assembles a SEAL TEAM to fight back against a gang of sharks ov...
The Last Days of American Crime
2020
as William Sawyer
In the not-too-distant future, as a final response to crime and terrorism, the U.S. government plans to broadcast a signal that will make it impossibl...
God: City
2018
as Dieu
God presides over a modern metropolis.
Gringo
2018
as Mitch Rusk
An American businessman with a stake in a pharmaceutical company that's about to go public finds his life is thrown into turmoil by an incident in Mex...
God: Serengeti
2017
as God
God presides over a prehistoric tribe.
Free Fire
2017
as Vernon
Set in Boston in 1978, a meeting in a deserted warehouse between two gangs turns into a shoot-out and a game of survival.
The Hollars
2016
as Ron Hollar
Aspiring New York City artist John Hollar returns to his Middle America hometown on the eve of his mother’s brain surgery. Joined by his girlfriend, e...
Hardcore Henry
2015
as Jimmy
Henry, a newly resurrected cyborg who must save his wife/creator from the clutches of a psychotic tyrant with telekinetic powers, AKAN, and his army o...
Hardcore Henry
2015
Executive Producer
Henry, a newly resurrected cyborg who must save his wife/creator from the clutches of a psychotic tyrant with telekinetic powers, AKAN, and his army o...
Chappie
2015
as Chappie
Every child comes into the world full of promise, and none more so than Chappie: he is gifted, special, a prodigy. Like any child, Chappie will come u...
Maleficent
2014
as Stefan
A beautiful, pure-hearted young woman, Maleficent has an idyllic life growing up in a peaceable forest kingdom, until one day when an invading army th...
Oldboy
2013
as Adrian Pryce
A man has only three and a half days and limited resources to discover why he was imprisoned in a nondescript room for 20 years without any explanatio...
Open Grave
2013
as John
A man awakes-- without memory -- in a pit full of bodies and must figure out if the people who rescued him are the killers, or if he is the murderer.
Elysium
2013
as Kruger
In the year 2159, two classes of people exist: the very wealthy who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live o...
Europa Report
2013
as James Corrigan
A crew of international astronauts are sent on a private mission to Jupiter's fourth moon.
Spoon
2011
Writer, Director
A thriller with supernatural overtones about a man with a medical condition that causes him to black out during moments of extreme stress and leads hi...
The A-Team
2010
as Murdock
A man who loves when a plan comes together, Col. Hannibal Smith leads a close-knit team of elite operatives and Iraq War veterans. Framed for a crime ...
Wikus and Charlize
2010
as Wikus van der Merwe
Wikus attempts to track down Charlize Theron in Hollywood to help him present the Award for Best Afrikaans Pop album.
Wikus and Charlize
2010
Director, Producer, Editor
Wikus attempts to track down Charlize Theron in Hollywood to help him present the Award for Best Afrikaans Pop album.
The Alien Agenda: A Filmmaker's Log
2009
as Self
A documentary that discusses the making of the Oscar-nominated movie District 9 (2009).
District 9
2009
as Wikus van de Merwe
Thirty years ago, aliens arrive on Earth. Not to conquer or give aid, but to find refuge from their dying planet. Separated from humans in a South Afr...
Alive in Joburg
2005
as Sniper
A documentary-style short film about the arrival of an alien spaceship over Johannesburg, South Africa.
Alive in Joburg
2005
Producer
A documentary-style short film about the arrival of an alien spaceship over Johannesburg, South Africa.
Desert Warrior
N/A
An honorable and mysterious rogue, known as Hanzala, makes himself an enemy of the Emperor Kisra after he helps a fugitive king and princess in the de...
Sapien Safari
N/A
An alien naturalist fights to protect a wildlife species that's vital to the survival of the planet.
Sapien Safari
N/A
Director, Writer
An alien naturalist fights to protect a wildlife species that's vital to the survival of the planet.