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Neil Sandilands is known for:

  • Blackhat
    A man is released from prison to help American and Chinese authorities pursue a mysterious cyber criminal. The dangerous search leads them from Chicago to Hong Kong.
  • News of the World
    A Texan traveling across the wild West bringing the news of the world to local townspeople, agrees to help rescue a young girl who was kidnapped.
  • The Price of Sugar
    A story about two half-sisters life in the eighteenth century Suriname. There is Lynda, a white colonial and slave owner, and her slave Mini-Mini's. While Lynda is slowly embittered by the hard life in the colony, Mini-Mini gets a chance at her own happiness. The question is, if she dares to seize that chance, as this happiness is at the expense of her mistress and half sister?

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Biography

Neil Joseph William Sandilands (born 1 May 1975) is a South African actor, filmmaker, and musician know for recurring roles on Hap and Leonard, The 100, The Flash season 4 as Clifford DeVoe / The Thinker. He also played General Abbott in Sweet Tooth, for which he received a Children's and Family Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Performance nomination. Sandilands began his career in his home country of South Africa and acted in a variety of projects, including the television series 7de Laan, where he portrayed the character Bart Kruger from 2000 to 2007. After finishing his work on 7de Laan, he moved to Los Angeles, California in 2007. During his time in Los Angeles, Sandilands notably appeared in the American drama series House. He later returned to South Africa and appeared in a number of popular Afrikaans films, including the award-winning drama Die Ballade van Robbie de Wee. During this time Sandilands would take up other jobs such as production and construction to support himself, once stating, "I had to revert to other disciplines such as directing and post-production and sometimes built fences for my neighbours or some other unmentionable activities to simply keep the wolf at bay," Sandilands said of his journey back to the United States. Sandilands returned to the U.S. in 2014. In 2015, Sandilands secured a guest stint on the hit FX series The Americans. The following year in 2016, he had recurring roles as Titus in The CW's The 100 and as Paco in the SundanceTV's Hap and Leonard. In 2017, Sandilands had a guest role in the long-running CBS series NCIS and joined the main cast of The CW superhero drama The Flash as Clifford DeVoe / The Thinker. In August 2022, Sandilands was cast in a role in the film Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, a film directed by Wes Ball for 20th Century Studios.