2024Nominee
Best Performance
King Kong: Monster and Myth
Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia
Actor
Harar, Ethiopia
July 22, 1892
Biography
Haile Selassie I was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974. He rose to power as Regent Plenipotentiary of Ethiopia (Enderase) for Empress Zewditu from 1916. He is widely considered a defining figure in modern Ethiopian history, and the key figure of Rastafari, a religious movement in Jamaica that emerged shortly after he became emperor in the 1930s. He was a member of the Solomonic dynasty, which claims to trace lineage to Emperor Menelik I, believed to be the son of King Solomon and Makeda the Queen of Sheba.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
2004Nominee
Best Performance
Etiopia 1936: alla conquista dell'impero
1971Nominee
Best Performance
Flame of Persia
Career Highlights
2022Highlight
Best Performance
The March on Rome
1950Highlight
Best Performance
The Century Is Fifty
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The March on Rome