Olga Zuiderhoek (born September 16, 1946 in

Assen Assen () is a municipality and a city in the northeastern Netherlands, and is the capital (politics), capital of the province of Drenthe. It received City rights in the Netherlands, city rights in 1809. Assen is known for TT Circuit Assen, the ...

) is a Dutch actress. She graduated in 1970 from the Amsterdam Theater School. After having been associated with the cooperative association Het Werkteater for many years, she worked for the theater companies De Mexican Hond and Orkater and played mainly in new plays by homegrown, sometimes written for her.

Theater

Zuiderhoek was a member of the innovative theater group Het Werkteater from 1974 to 1982. After that she played with theater group Orkater in the plays '' Parking '' (1987) and '' Een goed hoofd '' (1991) and further with De Mexican Hond in the play '' Kaatje drowned '' (1993). In her later acting career she worked, among others, with the Dutch writers

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, Jan Donkers,

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and Frank Houtappels, who sometimes also wrote a piece for her. In Theater Bellevue, Zuiderhoek has been playing the Christmas performance '' Peace on nature '' together with Kees Prins for years. In 1986 Olga won 'the golden heart of Rotterdam' with Danny and Roberta and in 2007 'the Audience Award' for the performance '' Who is afraid of Virginia Woolf '' directed by Gerardjan Rijnders. In 2014 and 2015 she played Queen Wilhelmina in the musical “Soldaat van Oranje”.

Awards and nominations

* In 1986 she was nominated for a Gouden Kalf for her role as mother Duif, in ''

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. * In 1986 she won 'Het Gouden Hart van Rotterdam' theater prize for her role as Roberta in the play '' Danny en Roberta ''. * In 1995 she was nominated for her role as Tine Tak in the television series '' The lonely war of Koos Tak '' by director Theo van Gogh. * In 2007 the play '' Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? '' Directed by Gerardjan Rijnders with Olga Zuiderhoek and Porgy Franssen won the Theater Audience Award. * In 2012 Zuiderhoek won a Golden Calf in the category "best supporting actress" for her role in " Süskind ''. * In 2014 she won at De TV-Beelden in the category "best supporting actor (m / f)" for her role in " Penoza III ''./ /www.mediajournaal.nl/2014/03/04/tv-beeld-voor-de-kwis-en-all-you-need.html "TV image for Kwis, Passion and All You Need"
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Personal life

Zuiderhoek lives in Amsterdam and was together for 28 years with jazz musician

Willem Breuker Willem Breuker (4 November 1944 – 23 July 2010) was a Dutch bandleader, composer, arranger, saxophonist, and clarinetist. Career During the mid 1960s, he played with percussionist Han Bennink and pianist Misha Mengelberg, co-founding the Insta ...

, who died in 2010.

Filmography

* ''

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'' (1973) * '' Naked Over the Fence '' (1973) * ''

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'' (1978) * ''

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'' (1981) * '' The Taste of Water '' (1982) * ''

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'' (1982) * And / Or (1985) * ''

'' (1986) * '' Speaking of Luck '' (1987) * ''

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'' (1989) * '' Tropical Years'' (1989) * '' A Strange Love '' (1990) * ''

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'' (1992) * ''

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'' 1992 * '' Movie! '' (1995) * ''

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'' (1996) * '' Minoes '' (2001) * '' Yes Sister, No Sister '' (2002) * '' HannaHannah '' (2007) * ''

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'' (2008) * '' Strong Stories '' (2010) * '' Furious '' (2011) * '' Süskind '' (2011) * '' After the Tone '' (2013) * '' Penoza: The Final Chapter '' (2019) * ''

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Television series

* Open & Naked (1974) * '' For better or worse '' (1991–1998) * '' We're back home '' (1990–1994) * '' Seth & Fiona '' (1994) * '' The Lonely War of Koos Tak '' (1995) * ''

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''(2000) * '' Au '' (1997) * '' Loenatik '' (1998) * '' Otje '' (1998) * ''

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''(2003) * '' Keyzer & De Boer Lawyers '' (2005) * ''

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'' (2006) * '' Song of Life '' (2011) * '' Penoza '' (2010–2017) - * '' The man with the hammer '' (2013) * '' Lord & Master '' (2014) * '' Trollie '' (2015) - Mimi * '' Oldenheim's 12 '' (2017) * '' The secret diary of Hendrik Groen '' (2017)

Documentary and book

In 2012, two years after the death of her husband Willem Breuker, the documentary Het Nieuwe Huis van Olga Zuiderhoek was made. In 2014 she wrote with journalist Ingrid Harms the

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'' Ongezouten Zuiderhoek '' about cooking without salt. Zuiderhoek gained experience with this because Breuker was prescribed a

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. The book contains illustrations by

Peter van Straaten Peter van Straaten (25 March 1935 – 8 December 2016) was a Dutch cartoonist and comics artist. He is best known for his political cartoons as well as his satirical observations of everyday people. He also had a newspaper comic strip '' Vader ...

External links

Short biographical sketch on werkater.nl

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Zuiderhoek, Olga Living people Dutch actresses 1946 births People from Assen