Nǃxau (also Gǃkau or Gcao Coma) (c. 16 December 1944 –1 July 2003) was a Namibian bush farmer and actor who was made famous by his roles in the 1980 movie The Gods Must Be Crazy and its sequels, in which he played the Kalahari Bushman Xixo. The Namibian has called him "Namibia's most famous actor".
N!xau was a member of the San tribe, commonly known as Bushmen. He spoke Juǀʼhoan, Otjiherero, and Tswana fluently, as well as some Afrikaans. He did ...
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Nǃxau (also Gǃkau or Gcao Coma) (c. 16 December 1944 –1 July 2003) was a Namibian bush farmer and actor who was made famous by his roles in the 1980 movie The Gods Must Be Crazy and its sequels, in which he played the Kalahari Bushman Xixo. The Namibian has called him "Namibia's most famous actor".
N!xau was a member of the San tribe, commonly known as Bushmen. He spoke Juǀʼhoan, Otjiherero, and Tswana fluently, as well as some Afrikaans. He did not know his own exact age, and before his appearance in the films he had little experience of typical "modern" living: he had only ever seen three white people before being cast and was unaware of the value of paper money, allowing (according to legend) his first earnings for The Gods Must Be Crazy to blow away in the wind. He earned only a few hundred dollars for his work in The Gods Must Be Crazy, but by the time of the first sequel he had obtained enough understanding of money to negotiate a much larger sum to appear again. He is said to...
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