Bonisile John Kani is a South African Broadway actor, director, and playwright, who has won a Tony Award for his performances in The Island and Sizwe Banzi is Dead.
For Disney, he portrayed King T'Chaka in the 2016 Marvel Cinematic Universe film Captain America: Civil War, the 2018 film Black Panther, and the 2021 TV series What If...? He also voiced Rafiki in the 2019 realistic CGI adaptation of The Lion King and Mufasa: The Lion King.
For his role in Captain America: Civil War, he taught Chadwick Boseman real phrases in the African language of Xhosa to make their interactions more realistic.
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