Born in Mombasa, Kenya, Shapi earned a master’s degree in veterinary science in Paris and practiced as a veterinarian before abandoning the profession to pursue acting. His early stage experience came with the English-language company ACT in Paris, where he performed in adaptations of works such as One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Don Quixote, and he later entered television with a 1992 appeara…
