Carice van Houten
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Carice Anouk van Houten (ka?'ris ?'nuk v?n '??u?t?(n); born 5 September 1976) is a Dutch
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 stage
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...

 and film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

 actress. She won five Golden Calves
Golden Calf (award)
The Golden Calf is the award of the Netherlands Film Festival, which is held annually in Utrecht. The award has been presented since 1981, originally in six categories: Best actor, Best actress, Best film, Best Short film, Culture Prize and Honourable mention...

 for her roles in Suzy Q (1999), Undercover Kitty
Undercover Kitty (film)
Undercover Kitty is a 2001 Dutch film, based on the children's novel Minoes by Annie M.G. Schmidt. The film was a box office success grossing $4,227,362 in the Netherlands, $111,858 in Germany, $34,164 in Austria, and $389,200 in Norway.-Plot:...

 (2001), Black Book (2006), De Gelukkige Huisvrouw (2010) and most recently for Black Butterflies
Black Butterflies
Black Butterflies is a Dutch film about the life of South-African poet Ingrid Jonker. The film was directed by Paula van der Oest and premiered in the Netherlands on February 6th before being released on March 31, 2011...

 (2011). Her role in Black Book launched her international career. She acted in the American films Valkyrie
Valkyrie (film)
Valkyrie is a 2008 American historical thriller film set in Nazi Germany during World War II. The film depicts the 20 July plot in 1944 by German army officers to assassinate Adolf Hitler and to use the Operation Valkyrie national emergency plan to take control of the country...

 (2008), Komt een vrouw bij de dokter (Love Life) (2009) and Repo Men (2010).

In 2008, she was ranked #34 in TC Candler's "Most Beautiful Faces" list and peaked at #20 in 2009.

Early life

Van Houten was born on 5 September 1976 in Leiderdorp
Leiderdorp
Leiderdorp is a town and municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland near the city of Leiden. It had a population of 26,182 in 2004....

, the Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

. Her mother Margje Stasse is on the board of Dutch educational TV and her father Theodore van Houten is a writer and broadcaster
Presenter
A presenter, or host , is a person or organization responsible for running an event. A museum or university, for example, may be the presenter or host of an exhibit. Likewise, a master of ceremonies is a person that hosts or presents a show...

. She has a younger sister, Jelka van Houten
Jelka van Houten
Jelka van Houten is a Dutch actress of film, stage, and television, though she is perhaps best known for being the sister of fellow actress Carice van Houten. She is currently nominated for a Gouden Notekraker; the judge's who nominated her have said that "her surprising début holds a lot in store...

, who is also an actress. She went to the St. Bonifatiuscollege (high school) in Utrecht
Utrecht (city)
Utrecht city and municipality is the capital and most populous city of the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is located in the eastern corner of the Randstad conurbation, and is the fourth largest city of the Netherlands with a population of 312,634 on 1 Jan 2011.Utrecht's ancient city centre features...

, where she played the leading role in Hugo Claus' Tijl Uilenspieghel, directed by Ad Migchielsen. Van Houten studied at the Kleinkunstacademie
Amsterdamse Toneelschool & Kleinkunstacademie
The Theaterschool is a theater school in Amsterdam, and a division of the Amsterdam School of the Arts.It is runs four year Bachelor's degree courses, intended for new stage, film, cabaret and musical actors...

 in Amsterdam
Amsterdam
Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...

.

Acting career

Carice van Houten played her first leading role in Martin Koolhoven
Martin Koolhoven
Martin Koolhoven is a Dutch film director and screenwriter.Born as Martinus Wouter Koolhoven, Koolhoven graduated from Dutch film school in 1996 and almost immediately made an impact on the Dutch film industry with his 53 minute television film Duister Licht in which the slaughtering of a pig was...

's TV film
Television movie
A television film is a feature film that is a television program produced for and originally distributed by a television network, in contrast to...

 Suzy Q. Van Houten won a Golden Calf
Golden Calf (award)
The Golden Calf is the award of the Netherlands Film Festival, which is held annually in Utrecht. The award has been presented since 1981, originally in six categories: Best actor, Best actress, Best film, Best Short film, Culture Prize and Honourable mention...

 for her part as Suzy.
She also won the Pisuisse Award and the Top Naeff Award for her stage acting and another Golden Calf for her part as the kitten that becomes a girl in Undercover Kitty
Undercover Kitty (film)
Undercover Kitty is a 2001 Dutch film, based on the children's novel Minoes by Annie M.G. Schmidt. The film was a box office success grossing $4,227,362 in the Netherlands, $111,858 in Germany, $34,164 in Austria, and $389,200 in Norway.-Plot:...

 (2001). The first time she could be seen in cinemas in the USA was when Martin Koolhoven's AmnesiA (2001) got a small theatrical release.

Van Houten won a Golden Calf
Golden Calf (award)
The Golden Calf is the award of the Netherlands Film Festival, which is held annually in Utrecht. The award has been presented since 1981, originally in six categories: Best actor, Best actress, Best film, Best Short film, Culture Prize and Honourable mention...

 for her performance as Rachel Stein in the 2006 film
2006 in film
- Highest-grossing films :Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top-grossing films that were first released in the United States in 2006...

 Black Book at the Netherlands Film Festival
Netherlands Film Festival
The Netherlands Film Festival is an annual film festival, held in September and October of each year in the city of Utrecht.During the ten-day festival, all Dutch film productions of the previous year are exhibited. Besides feature films, the program also consists of short subjects, documentary...

. Black Books director Paul Verhoeven says about her in a television interview: "Never in my life I have worked with an actress this talented", and when asked to compare her with Sharon Stone
Sharon Stone
Sharon Vonne Stone is an American actress, film producer, and former fashion model. She achieved international recognition for her role in the erotic thriller Basic Instinct...

 he said "Carice can really act". The international press is also enthusiastic about her role in Black Book. Dick Schümer wrote in his review of the film in the Frankfurter Allgemeine
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , short F.A.Z., also known as the FAZ, is a national German newspaper, founded in 1949. It is published daily in Frankfurt am Main. The Sunday edition is the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung .F.A.Z...

 that Carice van Houten is "not only more beautiful, but also a better actress than Scarlett Johansson
Scarlett Johansson
Scarlett Johansson is an American actress, model and singer.Johansson made her film debut in North and was later nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead for her performance in Manny & Lo . She rose to further prominence with her roles in The Horse Whisperer and Ghost World...

".

In December 2006, Van Houten withdrew from a theatre production of Alex van Warmerdam
Alex van Warmerdam
Alex van Warmerdam is a Dutch screenwriter, film director, and actor. He is also a painter.-Biography:He was cofounder of the theatre group Hauser Orkater . In 1980 he founded the theatre group De Mexicaanse Hond , together with his brother Marc van Warmerdam...

 due to personal reasons. According to a theatre spokesman it was because of a work overload.

Carice's first English spoken movie was Dorothy from French director Agnès Merlet
Agnès Merlet
Agnès Merlet is a French film director who is known for directing Son of the Shark, Artemisia and Dorothy Mills...

.

Her performance in Black Book led to roles opposite Tom Cruise
Tom Cruise
Thomas Cruise Mapother IV , better known as Tom Cruise, is an American film actor and producer. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards and he has won three Golden Globe Awards....

 in Valkyrie
Valkyrie (film)
Valkyrie is a 2008 American historical thriller film set in Nazi Germany during World War II. The film depicts the 20 July plot in 1944 by German army officers to assassinate Adolf Hitler and to use the Operation Valkyrie national emergency plan to take control of the country...

 and Jude Law
Jude Law
David Jude Heyworth Law , known professionally as Jude Law, is an English actor, film producer and director.He began acting with the National Youth Music Theatre in 1987, and had his first television role in 1989...

 and Forest Whitaker
Forest Whitaker
Forest Steven Whitaker is an American actor, producer, and director. He has earned a reputation for intensive character study work for films such as Bird and Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, and for his recurring role as ex-LAPD Lieutenant Jon Kavanaugh on the gritty, award-winning television...

 in Repo Men. She has acted in three movies directed by Dutch director Martin Koolhoven
Martin Koolhoven
Martin Koolhoven is a Dutch film director and screenwriter.Born as Martinus Wouter Koolhoven, Koolhoven graduated from Dutch film school in 1996 and almost immediately made an impact on the Dutch film industry with his 53 minute television film Duister Licht in which the slaughtering of a pig was...

.

In 2008, she starred in the non-commercial short movie Zingen in het Donker, a drama on domestic violence. In January 2008, Van Houten was named Woman of the Year by New York Magazine. She appeared in the magazine Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair (magazine)
Vanity Fair is a magazine of pop culture, fashion, and current affairs published by Condé Nast. The present Vanity Fair has been published since 1983 and there have been editions for four European countries as well as the U.S. edition. This revived the title which had ceased publication in 1935...

 in the issue for March 2008, photographed by Wayne Maser.

On 4 October 2008 filming began on From Time To Time
From Time to Time (film)
From Time to Time is a 2009 British adventure film directed by Julian Fellowes and starring Maggie Smith, Carice van Houten, Alex Etel, Eliza Bennett, Elisabeth Dermot-Walsh, Dominic West, Hugh Bonneville, Kwayedza Kureya and Pauline Collins. It was adapted from the children's novel The Chimneys of...

, directed by Julian Fellowes
Julian Fellowes
Julian Alexander Kitchener-Fellowes, Baron Fellowes of West Stafford, DL , known as Julian Fellowes, is an English actor, novelist, film director and screenwriter, as well as a Conservative peer.-Early life:...

. It is based on the children’s literature classic The Chimneys of Green Knowe by Lucy M. Boston
Lucy M. Boston
Lucy M. Boston was an English children's writer. She is best known for the six books in the Green Knowe series .-Biography:Boston was born in Southport in Lancashire in 1892 and died in 1990...

. Van Houten is attached to star as Maria Oldknow.

In April 2009 it was announced that Van Houten would star in Black Death
Black Death (film)
Black Death is a 2010 historical horror action film directed by Christopher Smith from an original screenplay by Dario Poloni. It stars Sean Bean, Eddie Redmayne and Carice van Houten.-Plot:The film takes place in 1348 in plague-ridden medieval England...

 by UK director Christopher Smith
Christopher Smith (director)
Christopher Smith, is a British film director and screenwriter.- Career :His four most prominent pieces of work are Creep, Severance, Triangle and Black Death. Smith was last working on a movie based about the UK children's book series CHERUB...

 and in the highly anticipated Dutch film Love Life (Komt een vrouw bij de dokter), based on the celebrated novel of the same name by Ray Kluun
Ray Kluun
Raijmondus "Raymond" Godefriedus Norbert van de Klundert is a Dutch author...

. She also starred in the Science-Fiction thriller Repo Men.

In July 2011, Van Houten was cast as the sorceress Melisandre in the second season of HBO's fantasy TV series Game of Thrones
Game of Thrones (TV series)
Game of Thrones is an American medieval fantasy television series created for HBO by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss. Based on author George R. R. Martin's best-selling A Song of Ice and Fire series of fantasy novels, the first of which is called A Game of Thrones, the television series debuted in...

.

Personal life

She was in a relationship with actor Sebastian Koch
Sebastian Koch
-Life and career:Koch was born in Karlsruhe and grew up in Stuttgart. His mother raised him alone, and he spent some time in the children's home where she worked...

, her co-star in Black Book. The couple announced they were separating in August 2009.

Carice has stated that Hollywood makes her unhappy: "I have seen Hollywood, and although I have nothing against it, it's not my kind of life. My agent is shocked that I want to stay in Europe", she says. "If Hollywood offers me a great part, of course I'll take it, but I just don't want to live there."

Filmography

Year Film Role Notes
1997 3 ronden Emily
1998 Ivory Guardians unknown
1999 Suzy Q Suzy Golden Calf for Best Acting in a Television Drama
Golden Calf for Best Acting in a Television Drama
The following is a list of winners of the Golden Calf for best Acting in a television Drama at the NFF.* 1994 Jack Wouterse - En Route* 1995 Huub Stapel - De Partizanen* 1996 Eric van der Donk - De Langste Reis...

2001 Storm In Mijn Hoofd Erwtenbloesem/Titania
AmnesiA Sandra
Undercover Kitty
Undercover Kitty (film)
Undercover Kitty is a 2001 Dutch film, based on the children's novel Minoes by Annie M.G. Schmidt. The film was a box office success grossing $4,227,362 in the Netherlands, $111,858 in Germany, $34,164 in Austria, and $389,200 in Norway.-Plot:...

 
Minoes Golden Calf for Best Actress
Golden Calf for Best Actress
The following is a list of winners of the Golden Calf for best Actress at the NFF* 2007 Elsie de Brauw - Tussenstand* 2006 Carice van Houten - Zwartboek* 2005 Maria Kraakman - Guernsey* 2004 Monic Hendrickx - Het Zuiden...

2002 The Wild Boar Pandora
2003 Father's Affair
Father's Affair
The Passion Fruit is a 2003 Dutch drama film.It received a Golden Film award for 100,000 visitors and a Golden Calf award for Best Sound....

 
Monika
2005 Black Swans
Black Swans
Black Swans is a 2005 Dutch drama film.The film won a Golden Calf for best sound at the Netherlands Film Festival in 2005.-Plot:Marleen works as a volunteer in a rest home in Spain. When she meets Vince they are attracted to each other. Their passionate relationship has its ups and downs, and...

 
Marleen Nominated — Golden Calf for Best Actress
Golden Calf for Best Actress
The following is a list of winners of the Golden Calf for best Actress at the NFF* 2007 Elsie de Brauw - Tussenstand* 2006 Carice van Houten - Zwartboek* 2005 Maria Kraakman - Guernsey* 2004 Monic Hendrickx - Het Zuiden...

Lepel
Lepel (film)
Lepel is a 2005 Dutch children's film. The film received a Golden Film for 100,000 visitors....

 
Juffrouw Broer
Knetter Lis
2006 Ik Omhels Je Met 1000 Armen
Ik Omhels Je Met 1000 Armen
A Thousand Kisses is a 2006 Dutch drama film directed by Willem van de Sande Bakhuyzen. It was based on the novel of the same name by Ronald Giphart.-Plot:...

 
Samarinde
Black Book  Rachel Stein/Ellis De Vries Golden Calf for Best Actress
Golden Calf for Best Actress
The following is a list of winners of the Golden Calf for best Actress at the NFF* 2007 Elsie de Brauw - Tussenstand* 2006 Carice van Houten - Zwartboek* 2005 Maria Kraakman - Guernsey* 2004 Monic Hendrickx - Het Zuiden...


Rembrandt Award for Best Actress
Nominated — European Film Award for Best Actress
European Film Award for Best Actress
-1980s:-1990s:-2000s:-2010s:-External links:*...


Nominated — Saturn Award for Best Actress
Nominated — German Film Award for Best Actress
Nominated — Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress
Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress
The Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress is an annual award given by the Chicago Film Critics Association.-1980s:-1990s:-2000s:-2010s:-References:...


Nominated — Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress
Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress
The Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress is an annual film award given by the Online Film Critics Society to honor the best lead actress of the year.Reese Witherspoon and Naomi Watts have each won this award twice.-1990s:-2000s:-2010s:...

2007 Alles is Liefde
Alles is Liefde
Alles is Liefde is a 2007 romantic comedy film , directed by Joram Lürsen, starring Carice van Houten, Paul de Leeuw, Wendy van Dijk, and Daan Schuurmans.-Plot:...

 
Kiki Jollema Rembrandt Award for Best Actress
2008 Dorothy Mills
Dorothy Mills
Dorothy Mills is a 2008 film directed by Agnès Merlet. Starring Carice van Houten and Jenn Murray, the film is about a psychiatrist assigned to work on the case of a disturbed young girl.-Awards and nominations:...

 
Jane Van Dopp
Valkyrie
Valkyrie (film)
Valkyrie is a 2008 American historical thriller film set in Nazi Germany during World War II. The film depicts the 20 July plot in 1944 by German army officers to assassinate Adolf Hitler and to use the Operation Valkyrie national emergency plan to take control of the country...

 
Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg
Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg
"Nina" Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg was the wife of Colonel Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, the leader of the failed plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler on 20 July 1944, after which she was arrested and imprisoned, where she delivered her youngest child.-Early years:She was born Magdalena...

 
Nominated — Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress
2009 Komt een vrouw bij de dokter (Love Life) Carmen Rembrandt Award for Best Actress
From Time to Time
From Time to Time (film)
From Time to Time is a 2009 British adventure film directed by Julian Fellowes and starring Maggie Smith, Carice van Houten, Alex Etel, Eliza Bennett, Elisabeth Dermot-Walsh, Dominic West, Hugh Bonneville, Kwayedza Kureya and Pauline Collins. It was adapted from the children's novel The Chimneys of...

 
Maria Oldknow
2010 Repo Men  Carol
De Gelukkige Huisvrouw  Lea Golden Calf for Best Actress
Golden Calf for Best Actress
The following is a list of winners of the Golden Calf for best Actress at the NFF* 2007 Elsie de Brauw - Tussenstand* 2006 Carice van Houten - Zwartboek* 2005 Maria Kraakman - Guernsey* 2004 Monic Hendrickx - Het Zuiden...

Black Death
Black Death (film)
Black Death is a 2010 historical horror action film directed by Christopher Smith from an original screenplay by Dario Poloni. It stars Sean Bean, Eddie Redmayne and Carice van Houten.-Plot:The film takes place in 1348 in plague-ridden medieval England...

 
Langiva
Satisfaction
2011 Intruders
Intruders (film)
Intruders is a four hour CBS miniseries dealing with the subject of alien abduction that was first broadcast in 1992. The miniseries starred Richard Crenna, Daphne Ashbrook and Mare Winningham. It was partially based on ufologist Budd Hopkins' book Intruders: The Incredible Visitations at Copley...

 
Susanna
Black Butterflies
Black Butterflies
Black Butterflies is a Dutch film about the life of South-African poet Ingrid Jonker. The film was directed by Paula van der Oest and premiered in the Netherlands on February 6th before being released on March 31, 2011...

 
Ingrid Jonker
Ingrid Jonker
Ingrid Jonker , was a South African poet. Although she wrote in Afrikaans, her poems have been widely translated into other languages...

 
Golden Calf for Best Actress
Golden Calf for Best Actress
The following is a list of winners of the Golden Calf for best Actress at the NFF* 2007 Elsie de Brauw - Tussenstand* 2006 Carice van Houten - Zwartboek* 2005 Maria Kraakman - Guernsey* 2004 Monic Hendrickx - Het Zuiden...

Vivaldi Julietta
2012 Game of Thrones
Game of Thrones (TV series)
Game of Thrones is an American medieval fantasy television series created for HBO by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss. Based on author George R. R. Martin's best-selling A Song of Ice and Fire series of fantasy novels, the first of which is called A Game of Thrones, the television series debuted in...

 
Melisandre 

Awards

Film Awards
  • Golden Calf
    Golden Calf (award)
    The Golden Calf is the award of the Netherlands Film Festival, which is held annually in Utrecht. The award has been presented since 1981, originally in six categories: Best actor, Best actress, Best film, Best Short film, Culture Prize and Honourable mention...

     1999: Best TV Actress – Suzy Q
  • Camério (2002): Best Actress – Undercover Kitty
    Undercover Kitty (film)
    Undercover Kitty is a 2001 Dutch film, based on the children's novel Minoes by Annie M.G. Schmidt. The film was a box office success grossing $4,227,362 in the Netherlands, $111,858 in Germany, $34,164 in Austria, and $389,200 in Norway.-Plot:...

  • Golden Calf
    Golden Calf (award)
    The Golden Calf is the award of the Netherlands Film Festival, which is held annually in Utrecht. The award has been presented since 1981, originally in six categories: Best actor, Best actress, Best film, Best Short film, Culture Prize and Honourable mention...

     2002: Best Actress – Undercover Kitty
    Undercover Kitty (film)
    Undercover Kitty is a 2001 Dutch film, based on the children's novel Minoes by Annie M.G. Schmidt. The film was a box office success grossing $4,227,362 in the Netherlands, $111,858 in Germany, $34,164 in Austria, and $389,200 in Norway.-Plot:...

  • Artek
    Artek (camp)
    Artek is a Young Pioneer camp near Gurzuf, Ukraine. It was established on June 16 1925 on the Black Sea in the town of Gurzuf located on the Crimean peninsula, near Medved Mountain, Ukraine. The camp first hosted only 80 children but then grew rapidly. In 1969 it had an area of 3.2 km²...

     (2005): Best Actress – Undercover Kitty
    Undercover Kitty (film)
    Undercover Kitty is a 2001 Dutch film, based on the children's novel Minoes by Annie M.G. Schmidt. The film was a box office success grossing $4,227,362 in the Netherlands, $111,858 in Germany, $34,164 in Austria, and $389,200 in Norway.-Plot:...

  • Golden Calf
    Golden Calf (award)
    The Golden Calf is the award of the Netherlands Film Festival, which is held annually in Utrecht. The award has been presented since 1981, originally in six categories: Best actor, Best actress, Best film, Best Short film, Culture Prize and Honourable mention...

     2006: Best Actress – Black Book
  • Rembrandt Award
    Rembrandt Award
    The Rembrandt Award is a Dutch film award. Initially created in 1993, it was not awarded between 1999 and 2006, but was recreated in 2007 by René Mioch. The Film Committee and Jury of the Rembrandt Awards Foundation nominates films and actors in various categories, and the Dutch public votes online...

     2009: Best Actress – Komt een vrouw bij de dokter
  • Tribeca Film Festival
    Tribeca Film Festival
    The Tribeca Film Festival is a film festival founded in 2002 by Jane Rosenthal, Robert De Niro and Craig Hatkoff in a response to the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the consequent loss of vitality in the TriBeCa neighborhood in Lower Manhattan.The mission of the festival...

     2011: Best Actress in a Narrative Feature Film - Black Butterflies
    Black Butterflies
    Black Butterflies is a Dutch film about the life of South-African poet Ingrid Jonker. The film was directed by Paula van der Oest and premiered in the Netherlands on February 6th before being released on March 31, 2011...


Theatre Awards
  • Pisuisse Prize (1999)
  • Top Naeff Prize (2000)


Other Awards
  • ELLE
    Elle
    Elle may refer to:*Elle, Central African Republic*Elle , a fashion publication*Ellé, a river in France*Elle , a female given name*Elle , a Sri Lankan game similar to baseball*Ælle of Sussex, a Saxon king...

     Personal Style Award 2006

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