Emmanuel Castis

Emmanuel was born in South Africa, where he grew up in the city of Johannesburg. As the son of Greek parents, Mike Castis and Maro Castis,he discovered a love for acting and performance at a very young age in kindergarten when he performed in nativity plays in the Greek language. However, it wasn't till later after he overcame his distraction of trying to save the natural universe from extinction, that a teacher of his suggested he study Drama. That lead him to study Drama at The University of The Witwatersrand,where he graduated with a postgraduate degree. His Debut professional performance was as 'Lennox' in 'Macbeth', but his breakthrough came in 1999, where he was cast to play a groundbreaking role in the daily series 'Isidingo'. Where he won a 2004 People Magazine Crystal Award for Best Actor in a soap series. As the lead male protagonist in popular Drama series 'Erfsondes' he gained two Best Actor in a Drama series nominations,two years in a row, for The SAFTA awards (The Sout