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Trevor Noah
Johannesburg, South Africa
Trevor Noah is a South African actor, presenter, comedian and radio DJ who began his career with a cameo role on the SABC3 soapie Isidingo, in 2002. After his stint on the show…
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Trevor Noah is a South African actor, presenter, comedian and radio DJ who began his career with a cameo role on the SABC3 soapie Isidingo, in 2002. After his stint on the show he spent two years years hosting an educational show for SABC2 during which time he started hosting his own radio show on Yfm called Noah's Ark. At Yfm his show was called Trevor Noah and was on between 00h00 and 03h00. He is also very involved in the South African comedy circuit and has performed at various comedy festivals. On television he hosted the SABC1 celebrity gossip show The Real Goboza in 2007 and also hosted SABC's sports show Siyadlala. In 2008 he was the runner-up on SABC2's reality dance competition Strictly Come Dancing 4, losing to actor Emmanuel Castis in the grand finale. His professional dance partner was Hayley Hammond. From May to August 2008 he was the co-host (with Pabi Moloi) of the SABC1 interactive dating game show The Amazing Date. He hosted the 3rd annual SAFTA Awards at the State Theatre in Pretoria on Saturday 7 February, 2009. Trevor was the host (along with Eugene Khoza) of the e.tv reality competition series The AXE Sweet Life from March to May, 2009. He hosted the 15th annual South African Music Awards (SAMAs) at the Sun City Superbowl on 2 May, 2009. He was invited back to host the SAMAs in 2010. Trevor began hosting his own talk show on M-Net in August 2010, entitled Tonight with Trevor Noah, based on international shows such as The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Late Show with Conan O'Brien and satirical fare like The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. The show moved to DStv's Mzansi Magic channel for it second season, which premiered on 5 November, 2010
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2026
The Incomer
Movie Executive Producer
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2026
Trevor Noah: Joy in the Trenches
Movie Self
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2026
Untold: Chess Mates
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2026
Trevor Noah: The LOST South African Show
Movie Self
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2024
To Be Destroyed
Movie Executive Producer
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2024
XCLD: The Story of Cancel Culture
Movie Writer
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2024
The Greatest Love Story Never Told
Movie Self
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2024
This Is Me…Now
Movie Libra
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2024
LOL: Last One Laughing South Africa
TV show Self - Host
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2023
Trevor Noah: Where Was I
Movie Self
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2023
The World According to Football
TV show Self - Narrator (voice)
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2023
American Symphony
Movie Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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2023
Serving in Secret: Love, Country, and Don't Ask, Don't Tell
Movie Executive Producer
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2023
Ayenda
Movie Executive Producer
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2023
Late Night Nightmare
Movie Self
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2023
Money Shot: The Pornhub Story
Movie Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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2023
For All Humankind
Movie Executive Producer
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2022
Best of Stand-Up 2022
Movie Self
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2022
StoryBots: Answer Time
TV show Self
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2022
Trevor Noah: I Wish You Would
Movie Self
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2022
Split Screen
Movie Story
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2022
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Movie Griot (voice)
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2022
Guerrilla Habeas
Movie Executive Producer
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2022
Kid of the Year
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2021
Coming 2 America
Movie Totatsi Bibinyana
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2020
The All-Star Nickmas Spectacular
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2020
Remembering RBG: A Nation Ugly Cries
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2019
Brave Blue World: Racing to Solve Our Water Crisis
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
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2019
Today with Jenna & Sheinelle
TV show Self
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2018
Trevor Noah: Son of Patricia
Movie Self
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2018
Black Panther
Movie Griot (voice)
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2018
Citizen Rose
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2017
The Opposition with Jordan Klepper
TV show Executive Producer
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2017
American Vandal
TV show Trevor Noah
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2017
Trevor Noah: There's a Gupta on My stoep
Movie Trevor Noah
