Betty Schuurman

Actress

October 31, 1962 (63 years)

Edam, Netherlands

Biography

Betty Schuurman (born October 31, 1962, in Edam, Netherlands) is a Dutch actress known for her work in film, television, and theatre. She has appeared in more than forty films since the early 1990s, including Character (1997), which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Since 2009, she has been a regular member of the Dutch National Theatre, while continuing to work in television series and feature films.

Filmography

6.9

Baantjer

Adelheid Philps

Baantjer is a Dutch television programme which was broadcast by RTL 4 from 6 October 1995 until 1 December 2006 for a total of 123 episodes in 12 seasons. It stars Piet Römer as Jurriaan 'Jurre' de Cock, a police detective, and Victor Reinier as Dick Vledder, his helper. The series is based on the novels of writer A. C. Baantjer. In 1999, RTL 4 broadcast the television film Baantjer, de film: De Cock en de wraak zonder einde because of the tenth anniversary of the network.

5.2

Moordvrouw

Maria Wassink

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9.0

Keyzer & De Boer Advocaten

Rechter Mols

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7.2

Danni Lowinski

Mrs. de Haan

Danni Lowinski is a hairdresser in need of money who decides to become a lawyer.

N/A

Nieuw Zeer

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8.0

CAST

Janice de Wit

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6.2

Morten

Simone Versteeg

Morten is well on his way to becoming Prime Minister, but when a secret from his past threatens to damage his reputation, he must go to great lengths to avert the disaster.

5.0

Instinct

Mother Nicoline

Nicoline, a criminal psychologist, begins work at a prison where one of her new cases, Idris — an apparently reformed sex offender — is preparing for release after five years of confinement. Despite her professional misgivings, she becomes infatuated with her charismatic, manipulative patient.

6.6

The Storm

Mevrouw Haverkamp

A fictional story within the historical context of the disastrous flood that engulfed the Dutch coastal province of Zeeland in 1953. When their farmhouse is destroyed by the flood, teenage mother Julia gets separated from her baby boy, whom she kept hidden in a box. She is saved from drowning by a young air force lieutenant, who agrees to go help looking for Julia's little son.

6.9

Accused

Judge Spanjer

An assistant prosecutor zealously pursues a conviction in the case of a pediatric nurse accused of murdering her patients, but doubt arises when her evidence shows that the infants may have died of natural causes.

7.9

Het jaar van Fortuyn

Jeltje van Nieuwenhoven

A chronicle of the tempestuous campaign trail rivalry between Labour Party leader Ad Melkert and flamboyant newcomer Pim Fortuyn, as they go head-to-head leading up to the Netherlands’ 2002 general elections.

N/A

The Van Gogh Legacy

Nelly van Gogh

The Duch painter Vincent Van Gogh grew up in the family of a stern Calvinist country pastor, feeling a misunderstood misfit, obsessed by painting, while his elder brother Theo left for Brussels, later Paris, and became an art dealer. Vincent tried an alternative career as missionary to the Catlolic Walloon mineworkers in the Ardennes but returns, broke and failed again. Later he'll move in with Theo in Paris, but can't fit in business or society. Vincent heads for frustration and health drama. His heir, a Dutch railway engineer, later visits those places while deciding whether to sell the family paintings collection to invest in the super-fast railroad.

5.9

Blind

Mother Marie (voice)

Ruben is a lone and unbalanced young man who lost his sight in childhood. Marie is an albino woman of temperate look and with a lot of insecurities. She has a beautiful voice and, along with Ruben, shares a mutual love for books and tales. Ruben's mother hires her as a reader to read her son books orally. While they live in a mansion, between these two lonely souls sparks love, but will love still be blind if the man recovers from his blindness?

7.3

Character

Joba

In pre-WWII Holland, the penniless, illegitimate son of a powerful bailiff sets out to become a lawyer as he spends a lifetime struggling to prove his worth to his relentlessly spiteful father.

6.8

Twin Sisters

Mother Rockanje

1920s Germany. Two sisters aged six years, no sooner see their remaining parent buried when they are torn apart. Lotte goes to live with her upper middle class Dutch aunt in Holland, Anna to work as a farm hand on her German uncle's rural farm. The World War II impacts each of their lives and finally in old age they meet again.

6.0

Brush with Fate

Digna

A mystery hidden for generations. Now the truth will finally be revealed.

7.5

Annie MG

Trui Schmidt

Recounts the life of prolific Dutch children's author and musical playwright Annie MG Schmidt.

6.7

Winky's Horse

Tante Cor

There is only one thing Winky wants: a horse, a real horse to ride. But horses are expensive. Fortunately it is the season of Sinterklaas; Winky just asks Sinterklaas for a horse. Than everything will work out alright. Or will it?

6.7

Where Is Winky's Horse?

Tante Cor

In the sequel to "Winky's Horse", 8-year old Winky looks after the horse of St Nicholas. Then one day the horse runs away.

8.0

The Shadow Walkers

Margreet

Tragicomedy about two brothers who married two sisters, walking the streets of Deventer at night lamenting the fact that each should have married the other one's wife.