Casper Johannes De Vries (; born 1 June 1964) is a South African actor, comedian, entertainer, painter, composer, director and producer. He has gained a significant following among South Africa's liberal Afrikaner and Afrikaans speaking population as well as Afrikaners living abroad. More recently due to his work on Comedy Central Africa he has also gained popularity among English speaking South Africans. Besides Afrikaans, he is fluent in Dutch and English. Early life He was born and raised in Pretoria where his father owned a toy shop. He attended Hoërskool Silverton where he was known as Cassie, and went on to study drama at the University of Stellenbosch. His shows were very popular amongst Afrikaans-speaking white South Africans and he even held shows in the London Palladium in London(2003 - 2006) where a lot of Afrikaners resided. From 2005-2008 he performed in Canada and the Netherlands. Later, from 2010 - 2015 he started to perform in English to appeal to a larger fan base both locally and internationally. Comedy style Casper de Vries uses satire, blue, character, observational, sketch and word play comedy styles in his stage performances, and he is very outspoken on topics such as humanity, religion, social norms, language and politics. Live shows His professional career started in 1986 with Hallo Suid-Afrika (Hello South Africa), and has been on-stage year after year until he started performing his one-man shows in 1997 where he started gaining major success. Here is a list of Casper's one man shows: Walgwors (1997) Wetter (1998) Toet & Taal (1999) Laat Daar Lag Wees (2000) DiMensie (2001-2002) Die Hits (2003) Snaaks Genoeg (2004) My Wêreld (2005) Mondig (2007) Broeders Ancestors (2009) Gaan Groot (2010) Vark in hel (2011) Casper Goes Khaki (2013) "Alive & Vrolik" (2016-2017) Film appearances Haak en Steek as Blertsie du Toit and Hanno Gelderblom Alec to the Rescue (1999) as Train Steward Soweto Green (1995) as Adrian Fluit Sweet 'n Short (1991) as George Weedle Taxi to Soweto (1991) as a Telkom Engineer Kwagga Strikes Back also known as Oh, Shucks-here comes UNTAG (1990) as Joop Van den Ploes Egoli -Afrikaners is Plesierig (2010) as Duifie Konfetti (2014) as Barry White Characters De Vries created characters that he portrayed in his live shows and in his TV series. Oom Kallie Marie - An old Afrikaner that represents the old Boere-Folk and is very old fashioned. Married to Tant Anna.