Biography

After having studied singing at the department for improvising musician of the Conversatorium in Amsterdam for two years, she began to miss the theater and stepped over to the Academie voor Kleinkunst.

At the academy she met the writer/director Ad de Bont, who helped her searching for an own theater form. This resulted in the music theater production Het Ritueel, for which she got the Creativiteitsprijs.

Besides being an actress, she is also a singer. She has especially sung jazz, among other things including the group Several Singers and with Het Paradise Regained Orchestra conducted by the late Nedly Elstak.

Furthermore she danced in the opera De materie of Louis Andriessen, under direction of Robert Wilson.

In 1988 she won a shared second prize at the Festival Le Grand Prix du Theatre. She was a taxi driver in the movie Honneponnetje of director Ruud van Hemert and played in Gemene verhalen on Veronica (a Dutch TV channel).