Emmy Lopes Dias (4 August 1919, in
Hilversum – 28 March 2005, in
Laren) was a Dutch actress and activist who performed on stage, radio, and television. She was a well-known advocate for the
right to die
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Biography
Lopes Dias was born to a city councilmember for the Social Democratic Workers' Party (later renamed PvdA). She began her acting career shortly after World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...
. She graduated cum laude from the Amsterdamse Toneelschool in 1949 and joined the Comedia, the predecessor of the Nederlandse Comedie. She was praised for her speech and began working in radio, performing in hundreds of radio plays and other radio shows. On television, she played in '' De Kleine Waarheid'' (as Maartje), in '' Q & Q'', and in '' Swiebertje''. She continued her work on the stage until the 1970s. She joined Nieuw Links, the "New Left" movement in the PvdA, in 1966, and later joined the party's board. She died in Laren, in the Rosa Spier Huis The Rosa Spier Huis is a retirement home founded in 1963 in Laren, Netherlands
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1919 births
2005 deaths
20th-century Dutch actresses
Dutch radio personalities
Dutch stage actresses
Dutch television actresses
Euthanasia activists
People from Hilversum
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