Carice van Houten

Dutch actress and singer

Carice Anouk van Houten ( dutch pronunciation : [ kaːˈris aːˈnuk fɑn ˈɦʌutə ( north ) ] ; [ 1 ] born 5 September 1976 ) is a dutch actress and singer. Her first precede role in the television film Suzy Q ( 1999 ) won her the Golden Calf for Best Acting in a Television Drama ; two years late, she won the Golden Calf for Best Actress for Undercover Kitty ( 2001 ). She gained far-flung recognition for her performance in Black Book ( 2006 ), the most commercially successful Dutch film to date, for which she won her second Golden Calf for Best Actress, in addition to nominations from the Chicago Film Critics Association, the European Film Academy, and the Online Film Critics Society. She was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress for Valkyrie ( 2008 ), and won her fourth and fifth Golden Calf Awards for Best Actress for The Happy Housewife ( 2010 ) and Black Butterflies ( 2011 ). Her other noteworthy English-language performances include Repo Men ( 2010 ), Black Death ( 2010 ), and Brimstone ( 2016 ).

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Van Houten received external recognition for her function as Melisandre on the HBO television series Game of Thrones ( 2012–2019 ), for which she received nominations for two screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by an ensemble in a Drama Series and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ]

early life [edit ]

Van Houten was brought up watching dumb films and in an interview she professed to prefer playing scenes without dialogue. [ 5 ] She has a younger sister, Jelka van Houten, who is besides an actress. Her parental grandma was scots. [ 6 ] Van Houten went to the St. Bonifatiuscollege ( eminent school ) in Utrecht, where she played the contribute character in Hugo Claus ‘ Tijl Uilenspieghel, directed by Ad Migchielsen. Van Houten studied briefly at the Maastricht Academy of Dramatic Arts but continued her professional department of education after one year at the Kleinkunstacademie in Amsterdam. [ 7 ]

Acting career [edit ]

Van Houten played her first go character in Martin Koolhoven ‘s television film Suzy Q. She won a Golden calf for her contribution as Suzy. She besides won the Pisuisse Award and the Top Naeff Award for her stage act and another Golden calf for her part as the kitten that becomes a womanhood in Undercover Kitty ( 2001 ). The inaugural time she could be seen in cinema in the U.S. was when Martin Koolhoven ‘s AmnesiA ( 2001 ) got a small theatrical release. Van Houten won a Golden calf for her performance as Rachel Stein in Black Book ( 2006 ) [ 8 ] at the Netherlands Film Festival. Black Book ‘s director Paul Verhoeven said 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 he said “ Carice can truly act. ” [ 9 ] The international press was besides enthusiastic about her role in Black Book. [ 10 ] In December 2006, Van Houten withdrew from a field output of Alex van Warmerdam due to personal reasons. According to a field spokesman it was because of a work overload. [ 11 ] In 2008, she starred in the non-commercial short movie Zingen in het donker ( english : Singing in the dark ), a play on domestic violence. She appeared in the magazine Vanity Fair in the issue for March 2008, photographed by Wayne Maser. [ 12 ] In 2008, Van Houten had a function reverse Leonardo DiCaprio in Body of Lies but her scenes did not make the final cut of the movie. [ 13 ] In April 2009, it was announced that Van Houten would star in Black Death by British director Christopher Smith and in the Dutch film Komt een vrouw bij de dokter ( english title : Stricken ), based on the novel of the same diagnose by Ray Kluun. She besides starred in the science fabrication thriller Repo Men. [ 14 ] In July 2011, Van Houten was cast as the priestess Melisandre in the second temper of HBO ‘s illusion television receiver series Game of Thrones. [ 15 ] Her operation has garnered her praise and recognition, earning her a Primetime Emmy Award nominating speech for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for her final performance as the character in the season 8 episode “ The Long Night “ in 2019. After nominations were announced for the ceremony, Van Houten received considerable media attention for having been one of the three nominated actors from the show to have self-submitted and paid entrance fees to be on the ballot for Emmy consideration after HBO had not done so for them. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] She has besides received three Screen Actors Guild Award nominations for Outstanding Performance by an ensemble in a Drama Series in 2014, 2016, and 2017 for the role.

personal life [edit ]

Van Houten is in a relationship with australian actor Guy Pearce. [ 22 ] In August 2016, she gave birth to their son, Monte Pearce. [ 23 ] She previously dated german actor Sebastian Koch ; they met on the stage set of the 2006 film Black Book. [ 24 ] Van Houten speaks Dutch, English, German, and French. Van Houten has stated that Hollywood makes her dysphoric : “ I have seen Hollywood, and although I have nothing against it, it ‘s not my kind of animation. My agent is shocked that I want to stay in Europe, ” adding, “ If Hollywood offers me a great part, of course I ‘ll take it, but I merely do n’t want to live there ”. [ 25 ] Van Houten has been friends with chap Dutch actress Halina Reijn since 1994. [ 26 ] They worked together in the movies Black Book and Valkyrie. In 2013, the two published a book called Anti Glamour, a spoof dash guide and a celebration of their friendship, [ 27 ] a well as a candid look into the commonplace back-stage side of their lives. [ 28 ] Van Houten is a lifelong fan of Laurel and Hardy. In June 2016, she called into The Ross Owen Show on Black Sky Radio to talk about her sleep together of the drollery couple. [ 29 ]

Filmography [edit ]

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discography [edit ]

Black Book (soundtrack) (2007) – vocals on four songs
See You on the Ice (2012)[32]
“Fear Not” (2015) – featuring Michael Prins
“Bobbie Gentry’s The Delta Sweete Revisited” (2019) by Mercury Rev – vocals on ‘Parchman Farm’
“Once Upon a Time in Shaolin” (2015) by Wu-Tang Clan