Hannah Hoekstra (born August 2, 1987) is a Dutch

actress An actor or actress is a person who portrays a Character (arts), character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek ...

Career

In 2010, Hoekstra graduated from the Amsterdam Theatre Academy, where she studied from 2006. During training she participated in the play ''Underground'' by director

Johan Simons Johan Simons (born 1 September 1946) is a Dutch theatre director. Simons received his education at the Rotterdam Dance Academy and the Maastricht Academy of Dramatic Arts. He also taught directing in Maastricht for a number of years. Since 200 ...

. The following year, she made her debut on TV, playing a small role in the TV series ''

Flikken Maastricht ''Flikken Maastricht'' (Belgian Dutch for "Maastricht Cops") is a Dutch police drama. The series is set in Maastricht, Limburg (Netherlands), Limburg, a city in the south of the Netherlands, and began broadcasting on Dutch channel NPO 1 on 3 Sept ...

''. Her breakthrough came in 2012 when she was cast in

Sacha Polak Sacha Polak (born 1982) is a Dutch film director. Career In 2012 Polak's feature film debut ''Hemel'' played at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival. Additionally her short ''Brother'' and her step-mother Meral Uslu's film on which she wa ...

's film '' Hemel'', in which Hoekstra plays sensual beauty with signs of

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. The film was shown at the

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and received a special prize

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. She was also awarded a

Golden Calf Award The Golden Calf ( nl, Gouden Kalf) 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 Feature Film, Best Short Fi ...

at the

Netherlands Film Festival The Netherlands Film Festival ( nl, Nederlands 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, Dutch film productions and co-productions are exhibited. Be ...

and was nominated for a

Rembrandt Award The Rembrandt Award was a Dutch film award. Initially created in 1993, it was not awarded between 1999 and 2006, but was recreated in 2007 by René Mioch.. It has not been awarded since 2015. 2007 *''Zwartboek'' – Best Dutch Film * Daniël ...

. She was named a recipient of the

Shooting Stars Award The Shooting Stars Awards are presented annually by the pan-European network organization European Film Promotion (EFP) to emerging actors from Europe. "Shooting Stars" is an initiative of the EFP for the international promotion and networking of p ...

which was presented by the

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board at the 67th

Berlin International Film Festival The Berlin International Film Festival (german: Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin), usually called the Berlinale (), is a major international film festival held annually in Berlin, Germany. Founded in 1951 and originally run in June, the festi ...

Selected appearances

Film

Video games

* ''

Horizon Zero Dawn ''Horizon Zero Dawn'' is a 2017 action role-playing game developed by Guerrilla Games and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. The plot follows Aloy, a young hunter in a world overrun by machines, who sets out to uncover her past. The ...

'' (2017) as the model for

Aloy Aloy is a fictional character and protagonist of the 2017 video game ''Horizon Zero Dawn'' and its sequel ''Horizon Forbidden West''. In the games' post-apocalyptic tribal setting, she is born in 3021, raised as an outcast, and trains as a war ...

* ''

Horizon Forbidden West ''Horizon Forbidden West'' is a 2022 action role-playing game developed by Guerrilla Games and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. The sequel to 2017's ''Horizon Zero Dawn'', the game is set in a post-apocalyptic version of the Weste ...

'' (2022) as the model for Aloy

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* Living people 1987 births 21st-century Dutch actresses Dutch film actresses Dutch television actresses Golden Calf winners Place of birth missing (living people) {{Netherlands-actor-stub