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Tongayi Arnold Chirisa is aZimbabwean actor and singer known for playingMan Friday onNBC'sCrusoe television series, Father Nicholas onThe Jim Gaffigan Show, Hekule onLeon Schuster'sMr. Bones 2: Back from the Past, andCheetor inTransformers: Rise of the Beasts.

Chirisa attendedLomagundi College.^[2] He also studied for a Bachelor of Arts in Live Performance atAFDA, The School for the Creative Economy.^[3]

He played the part of "Detective Trevor Davies" in the popular Zimbabwean television seriesStudio 263.^[4] He also appeared in numerous feature films, the most well known beingTanyaradzwa in 2004, for which he won the Best Actor for Film and Television Award.^{[5][better source needed]} He has also featured in music videos and is a singer. He also starred in a serial radio drama Mopani Junction that was taken off air at the height of political turmoil in Zimbabwe.^{[citation needed]} He has been nominated and won many NAMA Awards over the last five years. He recently played the lead in the comedy feature filmMr Bones 2: Back from the Past. He made a dramatic appearance in the mini-seriesRough directed by British director,Andy Wilson, appeared in an international feature filmSkin, directed by Anthony Fabian and co-starring Sam Neill, and played a lead in a local drama seriesRedemption forSABC 1. He playedMan Friday on theNBC international television seriesCrusoe, based on the classic storyRobinson Crusoe.^[6] He also appeared inSleepy Hollow based onThe Legend of Sleepy Hollow byWashington Irving. He played Father Nicholas onThe Jim Gaffigan Show (2017).^[7] He played the Maximal Cheetor in the filmTransformers: Rise of the Beasts. (2023)^[8]

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