Jane de Wet is a South African actress and dancer.

Personal life

De Wet is from

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. She first discovered performing arts as a dancer in a recital at De Hoop Primary School. She matriculated at

Parel Vallei High School Parel Vallei High School is a co-ed high school located in Parel Vallei, a suburb of Somerset West, which is in the Western Cape, South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in ...

and went on to graduate with a

Bachelor of Communications A bachelor's degree (from Middle Latin ''baccalaureus'') or baccalaureate (from Modern Latin ''baccalaureatus'') is an undergraduate academic degree awarded by colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study lasting three to six ye ...

in management sciences from

Stellenbosch University Stellenbosch University ( af, Universiteit Stellenbosch) is a public research university situated in Stellenbosch, a town in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Stellenbosch is the oldest university in South Africa and the oldest extant ...

in 2017.

Career

De Wet began her career on stage and was named Most Promising Actress at the 2012 ATKV Tienertoneelfees. In 2014, she won Best Actress at ATKV Tienertoneelfees, Best Actress at Durbanville Tienertoneelfees, and Best Actress at Fraserburg Logan Toneelfees. De Wet starred as Alexis "Lexi" Summerveld in the 2019

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mystery series '' The Girl from St. Agnes''. She made her film debut that year with a minor role in ''

Moffie ''Moffie'' is a 2019 biographical war romantic drama film co-written and directed by Oliver Hermanus. Based on the autobiographical novel of the same name by André Carl van der Merwe, the film depicts mandatory conscription into the notorious ...

'' and as Marthella Steencamp in ''Griekwastad''. For the latter, she won Most Promising Young Talent at the 2020 kykNET Silver Screen Film Festival and received a nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a Feature Film at the 2021

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. In 2020, de Wet appeared in the

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series ''Still Breathing'' as well as the television films ''Rage'' and ''Parable''. In 2021, she joined the cast of the kykNET drama ''

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'' for its third installment, ''Steynhof'' as Adri von Tonder. She had a recurring role as Alice Band in the

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adaptation of

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's '' The Watch'' and played Jackie in the ''

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'' remake.

Filmography

Film

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'' , Flower Girl , , - , ''The Other Side'' , Emma , , -

Television

Music videos

Stage

Awards and nominations

References

External links

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Jane de Wet
at TVSA {{DEFAULTSORT:de Wet, Jane Living people 21st-century South African actresses People from Somerset West South African female dancers South African dancers South African film actresses South African stage actresses South African television actresses Stellenbosch University alumni Year of birth missing (living people)