Lillian Dube

Acting

Lillian Dube

Born

1945-09-30 (81)

Place of birth

South Africa

Known for

Acting

Credits

24 titles

Lillian Dube (born 30 September 1945) is a South African actress. She is perhaps best known for portraying Masebobe in the soap opera Generations. In 2007, Dube was diagnosed with breast cancer and has been in remission as of 2008. The cancer returned again in 2015. In 2017, Dube was awarded an honorary doctorate in Drama and Film Production at the Tshwane University of Technology. Source: Article "Lillian Dube" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 4 titles

2010s · 9 titles

Mia and the White Lion poster
7.2

A young girl from London moves to Africa with her parents where she befriends a lion cub.

Mia and the White Lion

2018

Fanie Fourie's Lobola poster
5.0

After Fanie takes Dinky, a strong Zulu woman, to his Afrikaans family wedding, the two find an unexpectedly fun cross-cultural romance. But in order to marry Dinky, Fanie must negotiate to pay Lobola (a South African dowry).

Fanie Fourie's Lobola

2013

Looking For Love poster
5.6

A single, unaccomplished Zulu woman feels family pressure to find Mr. Right before she turns 40, in the pitiless concrete jungle that is Jo’burg.

Looking For Love

2018

Gog' Helen poster
6.0

Gog' Helen, an elderly woman living in a shantytown, has spent her life hiding her savings inside her worn-out mattress. When her well-meaning granddaughter Agnes surprises her with a new bed and unwittingly discards the old one, the duo embarks on a frantic race against time to recover the cash. Complicating matters? Heaps!

Gog' Helen

2012

Hear Me Move poster
NR

The son of a famous street dancer tries to discover the truth about his father's tragic death 12 years prior. When he joins forces with his father's dance partner, he finds himself embroiled in a bitter rivalry that pushes him to his limit.

Hear Me Move

2015

The Forgotten Kingdom poster
5.7

A young man reluctantly embarks on a journey to his ancestral land of Lesotho to bury his estranged father, and finds himself drawn to the mystical beauty and hardships of the people and the land he had forgotten.

The Forgotten Kingdom

2013

Nothing for Mahala poster
NR

Nothing for Mahala is a comedic film that follows Ace (Thapelo Mokoena) into his deep and unpleasant hole of debt and financial woes. Ace who likes to play the part of the high flier is forced to get money from illegal loan sharks, which eventually lands him into some legal trouble. The result is Ace doing community service at an old age home, where much is learnt about finances, life and what really holds value.

Nothing for Mahala

2013

The Chemo Club poster
NR

The Chemo Club is a feature film which follows strong willed Lulu (Brümilda van Rensburg) and humble Faith (Lillian Dube) as they embark on a heist to recover their stolen funds from a corrupt retirement pensions boss (Chris Chameleon). As former 1970s comic book heroes, they channel their alter egos in the 1970's, enlisting the help of their former colleague (Tobie Cronje) and a younger media student and comic book enthusiast (Rea Rangaka) to complete their heist and return to their glory days.

The Chemo Club

2016

Susanna van Biljon poster
6.7

Rebecca Dreyer (Karen Zoid) is almost forty, lives with her mother (Marie du Toit) and works in a café in a small Karoo town. To escape her depressing life, Rebecca dreams of getting as far away as possible from her smothering mother and pursue the stardom her mother never experienced – that of a successful singer.

Susanna van Biljon

2010

1990s · 5 titles

Cry, the Beloved Country poster
6.8

A South-African preacher goes to search for his wayward son who has committed a crime in the big city.

Cry, the Beloved Country

1995

Yankee Zulu poster
6.2

Two South African boys, one white, Rhino, and one black, Zulu, go their separate ways after an incident. Many years later, they meet up again as adults, when one, after living for years in the United States, is now a wanted criminal. The two end up being a part of a madcap chase involving a check for a large amount of lottery money, pursued by Gen. Diehard and Rhino's ex-wife Rowena, who was the cause of the rift between the two protagonists.

Yankee Zulu

1993

Sweet 'n Short poster
5.4

A disgraced sports presenter falls victim to an accidental head trauma and slips into a coma. He awakens months later to find that South Africa was not as he left it, he is now in the New South Africa, and his multimillion-Rand idea has been stolen from beneath him.

Sweet 'n Short

1991

In a Time of Violence: The Line poster
5.8

This controversial political thriller, which provoked mass demonstrations and nine deaths in South Africa when it was first shown, gives dramatic form to the African National Congress's basic program of reconcilliation within a non-racialist, democratic society. A train massacre by an Inkatha militant causes the sole witness to the crime to flee the Soweto townships to take refuge in Johannesburg; but the violence follows him when his ANC comrades try to buy guns for a retaliatory raid against Inkatha supporters.

In a Time of Violence: The Line

1994

Hearts & Minds poster
7.0

In the final days of the pro-apartheid government, bigoted policeman and assassin Andries Fourie is assigned an undercover job. His task is to pose as a political progressive to infiltrate the African National Congress and assassinate one of the party’s leaders.

Hearts & Minds

1995

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