Abke Haring

Abke Haring won a Golden Calf Award for Best Actor at the Dutch Film Festival Utrecht 2024. She won this Award for her lead performance in the drama series Een van Ons, directed by Michiel van Erp. She is a much acclaimed actor in The Netherlands and Belgium, who won the prestigious Theo d’Or award …

Elsie de Brauw

With a long career in film, television and theater, Elsie de Brauw is one of the most acclaimed Award-winning actresses in the Netherlands. She has won three awards and has been nominated five times for roles in feature films and a drama series.  She has won a Golden Calf Award for Best Lead Actress for …

Ayla Çekin Satijn

Ayla is an actress and director. She is a Turkish queer woman and feels a great responsibility for representation of progressive roles for women. She stars as Maya in the series ANNE+, available on Netflix, and can be seen in series such as The F-Word, Deep Shit and Dirty Lines, the last of which also …

Diewertje Dir

Diewertje followed her training at the Dutch Academy of Performing Arts and graduated from the Academy for Drama & Contemporary Music Theater in Amsterdam in 2015. She has performed in plays such as De Revisor and As you like it from The National Theater and Emilia Galotti from International Theater Amsterdam. She starred as ‘Julia’ …

Barbara Sloesen

Barbara started acting at the Youth Theater school and graduated from the Academy of Dramatic Arts Maastricht in 2013. Following her graduation she played the role of ‘Anna Brandt’ in the television series Goede Tijden, Slechte Tijden. Two years later, she decided to leave the series in order to pursue her dreams. This decision was …

Isis Cabolet

Isis Mihrimah Cabolet co-wrote Dit is geen kerstfilm (100%) with Lotte Tabbers and they won a Golden Calf  Award for best screenplay at the Dutch Film Festival Utrecht 2024. She graduated from the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Maastricht in 2011. She played in productions from Theater Group Amsterdam, Suburbia, Oostpool and Hartenjagers, but also …

Kiki van Deursen

When Kiki graduated from the Theater Academy in Amsterdam in 2010, she immediately landed her first leading role in the musical Otje from Senf Theater-productions.  She has performed in theater productions from Orkater, De Nieuwkomers, and NINETIES productions and toured with the musical All Stars in 2019. Kiki also starred in various television and film …

Melody Klaver

Melody won the Dutch Academy Award for Best Actress for the Leading Role for her performance in the international film Rafaël, directed by Oscar-nominated director Ben Sombogaart in 2019.  Melody started acting at a very young age and she has played many beautiful (leading) roles. She had been nominated for the Golden Calf Award before …

Roos Dickmann

Roos started acting at the Youth Theatre School, and graduated from the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Amsterdam in 2021. Before and throughout her education she already played roles in film and television, and even published her own debut poetry book Ik ook van mij (2019) during this period. She is well known for her …

Emma Josten

Even before her graduation from the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Amsterdam in 2019, Emma could already be seen acting in various plays by theater companies Het Nationale Theater, International Theater Amsterdam and De Toneelschuur. When she was younger, Emma portrayed one of the leading characters in the youth-television series Het Geheim van Eyck. After she …