Jason Cope

Jason Cope (known as Benoit Franc) is a South African actor perhaps best known for his work in the 2009 Academy Award-nominated science fiction film District 9.

Career

In 2004, Cope played a variety of roles on the second season of the SABC1 comedy show The Pure Monate Show. In 2008, he played the character of Howard Weaver in the MNet miniseries Ella Blue. The title character of the miniseries was portrayed by actress Nathalie Blott, who would go on to costar with Cope in the film District 9. Since 2010, he has also played a "Field Reporter" on eTV's satirical news show Late Nite News with Loyiso Gola.

In 2010 he also had a costarring role in the South African-produced film Spud, opposite veteran actor John Cleese.

District 9

In the 2009 film District 9, Cope played a variety of characters including the alien Christopher Johnson, created entirely through CGI using a process similar to the creation of the character Gollum in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy. This process creates a character modeled on the performance of an actor or actress, allowing for on-camera performances including interaction with the other cast members. He also played the character Grey Bradnam, one of the narrators of the film, and provided the majority of the background voice work in the film, including the cameraman Trent. In a deleted scene of the movie, Cope also played a doctor at a clinic visited by the Wikus van de Merwe character who was seeking to have his arm cut off since being infected with alien DNA. The scene is featured as part of the movie's DVD "extras."

External links

• Jason Cope at the Internet Movie Database