Ian Roberts is a South African actor, playwright and singer best known to television viewers for his roles in the drama series Arende and Snitch, and as the character Boet in a series of long-running advertisements for Castrol motor oil. Roberts was born in Fort Beaufort in the Eastern Cape and raised on a citrus farm near the town. He attended St. Andrew's Preparatory School and St. Andrew's College in Grahamstown. After completing high school he performed his compulsory national service in the South African Army, which he completed in 1971. After a variety of different jobs and a course in photography at the Port Elizabeth Technical College from 1973 to 1975, Roberts enrolled at Rhodes University in 1976 for a Bachelor of Arts degree majoring in Speech, Drama and Social Anthropology. Ian Roberts has built up an extensive acting career in theatre, television and film. Roberts was married to South African actress Michele Botes, but the couple divorced in 1999. They have two children. Ian Roberts(1951년생, Fort Beaufort, South Africa) 는 배우로, 대표작으로 Sweepers, Red Dust, Askari가 있으며, 그 외에도 The Wild, The Play on One, King Solomon's Mines, Reyka, 화이트 라이언 찰리, Erfsondes, Musiekpaniek, 불가사리 5, 파워 오브 원, Appels en Tee, 비성, Cape Town 등 다양한 작품에 출연했다. (오뜨랑에서 실시간으로 번역된 한글 프로필도 확인할 수 있어요) 2025년 Appels en Tee에서 Jakkals Boshoff 역을 맡았다. 2025년 A Kind of Madness에서 Dan Hart 역을 맡았다. 2021년 Reyka에서 John Tyrone 역을 맡았다.