Gaite Sara Kim Jansen (born 25 December 1991) is a

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actress born in

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Life and career

Jansen received her professional training at the

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. At age 12, she was awarded the Best Actress Award at the

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in Amsterdam for her role in Luwte. Her performance as a troubled deaf teenager in the acclaimed

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''170 Hz'' (2011) earned her nominations for Best Actress at the Seattle Film Festival and the

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. The film ''Supernova'', in which she plays the lead role, was selected for the Generations competition at Berlinale film festival 2014. In 2014, Jansen made her stage debut at the prestigious Amsterdam Theatre Group, as Ophelia in ''Hamlet vs. Hamlet'', directed by Guy Cassiers and played in Medea later that year. In 2015, Jansen appeared as the lead role in the film ''Greenland''. She played a suicidal girl in ''In Therapie'', the Dutch version of ''

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'' in 2010. She was nominated "best actress" at the

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awards in 2012 for her role in '' 170 Hz'', where she played a deaf girl and conversed mostly in

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. Jansen also plays the role of Duchess Tatiana Petrovna in the third season of the

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''. In 2017 she appeared as Hana Raznikova in ''

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''. She plays Phoenix in the Cinemax TV series '' Jett''.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Jansen, Gaite 1991 births Living people Dutch child actresses Actors from Rotterdam