Tongayi Arnold Chirisa is a Zimbabwean actor known for playing Man Friday on NBC's Crusoe television series, Father Nicholas on The Jim Gaffigan Show, and Hekule on Leon Schuster's Mr. Bones 2: Back from the Past movie. He is also an occasional singer.

Filmography

• 2025Rise — Coach Tobias
• 2023Courting Anathi
• Mayfair Witches — Ciprien 'Sip' Grieve
• 2023Transformers: Rise of the Beasts — Cheetor (voice)
• 2022Next Exit — Father Jack
• 2022The Anthrax Attacks: In the Shadow of 9/11 — Agent Shaw
• 2021Trees of Peace — Francois
• 2020Antebellum — Eli / Professor Tarasai
• 2020Palm Springs — Jerry
• Another Life — Richard Ncube
• The Good Doctor — Boyd Gaston
• 2017The Zim — William Zimunya
• 2016Happiness Is a Four-Letter Word — Thomas
• 2015Whitney — Gary Houston
• iZombie — Justin Bell
• 2014Whipping Boy — Olly 'Napalm' Harris
• Sleepy Hollow — Arthur Bernard
• American Horror Story — Miles
• Hawaii Five-0 — Don
• NCIS: Los Angeles — Interrogator
• 2009Skin — Township Priest
• Crusoe — Friday
• 2008Mr. Bones 2: Back from the Past — Hekule
• 2008Zimbabwe — Charles
• 2007Tanyaradzwa
• Chronos
• Steal Away — Hiram Jackson

Appearances as themselves (1)

• In the Kitchen with Harry Hamlin — Self