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Kelly-Eve Koopman

South African actress

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ102020707 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kelly-Eve Koopman is a South African director and actor. She is best known for the roles in the television serials Hollywood in my Huis and Kroto and Mayfair. She is one of three directors of FEMME projects.

Career

Apart from acting, she is also a community leader and social activist. She is also the co-creator of the platform 'Coloured Mentality' which has become a unique interactive storytelling space for coloured community. Over the past three years she has served 4000 young women in 20 disenfranchised schools in the Western Cape. In 2017, she released a six-part web documentary along with filmmaker Sarah Summers. The documentary focuses on the coloured racial identity in South Africa.

In 2018, she appeared in the South African Indian action crime film Mayfair. She played the supportive role of 'Ameena' in the film, which later received positive reviews.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Kelly-Eve Koopman” as south African actress. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2017, 2018—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Kelly-Eve, Koopman and South can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as south African actress. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q102020707. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2017 and 2018.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kelly-Eve Koopman” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.