Biography

Jelka van Houten was born in Culemborg, Netherlands, on 1 September 1978, as the second daughter of Margje Stasse (presently on the board of Dutch educational TV Teleac) and film historian / musicologist Theodore van Houten. She is the only sister of actress Carice van Houten (b. 1976). In the eighties, both young girls made their first stage appearances in school plays in Utrecht and on Dutch TV in a KRO children's programme, produced by Stefan Stasse. A multi-talent, Jelka played the role of an obsessed killer in Liefje (2001), when she was a set design student at the Dutch Film Academy.
- IMDb mini biography by: Theodore van Houten / tiedel@newbabylon.demon.nl

Younger sister of Carice van Houten.

Jelka is a Dutch actress, singer and set-designer.

Daughter of Margje Stasse, who is on board of the Dutch educational TV, and Theodore van Houten, a writer and broadcaster.

Has two children with her husband Koppe Koppeschaar - a son (b. 2009) and a daughter (b. 2014).

Her paternal grandmother, Sarah Currie Lockhart of Clan Lockhart (b. Edinburgh, Scotland, Great-Britain and Ireland), was Scottish.