Frederik Percy de Groot (born 23 May 1946 in
Bilthoven
Bilthoven is a village in the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is a part of the municipality of De Bilt. It has a railway station with connections to Utrecht, Amersfoort and Baarn. It is home to the Netherlands National Institute for Public Health a ...
) is a Dutch actor. In the Netherlands he appeared in the detective series ''
Bureau Kruislaan
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'' and its spin-off ''
Unit 13''.
Biography
He is best known, however, in
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ...
where he was the television spokesman for
ING Direct
The ING Group ( nl, ING Groep) is a Dutch multinational banking and financial services corporation headquartered in Amsterdam. Its primary businesses are retail banking, direct banking, commercial banking, investment banking, wholesale bankin ...
for many years. The marketing campaign was developed by GWP Brand Engineering. They picked an actor with a foreign accent so that customers would not be surprised to learn the bank was also foreign. De Groot also speaks French, and is unusual among Canadian spokespeople for also appearing in the company's
French Canadian language spots.
He has been married since 1997 to Marja Bakker, with whom he has three children. He had a relationship with actress
Fiona Gaunt, with whom he had
Genevieve Gaunt, who is also an actress, and portrayed
Pansy Parkinson in ''
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
''Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban'' is a fantasy novel written by British author J. K. Rowling and is the third in the '' Harry Potter'' series. The book follows Harry Potter, a young wizard, in his third year at Hogwarts School of ...
''.
Frederik and his wife Marja own theatre company Living Productions – Hoorn.
Living Productions
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Filmography
* '' Pastorale 1943'' (1978)
* ''The Little Riders'' (1996) .... Father Hugo
* ''Sinterklaas en het uur van de waarheid'' (2006) .... Inspecteur Jankers
* ''Sinterklaas en het geheim van het grote boek'' (2008) .... Inspecteur Jankers
* ''Verloren Jaren'' (2010) .... Studieleider regie
* '' Bernhard, schavuit van Oranje (2010) .... Willem Drees
Willem () is a Dutch and West FrisianRienk de Haan, ''Fryske Foarnammen'', Leeuwarden, 2002 (Friese Pers Boekerij), , p. 158. masculine given name. The name is Germanic, and can be seen as the Dutch equivalent of the name William in English, G ...
References
External links
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1946 births
Living people
Dutch male film actors
Dutch male television actors
People from De Bilt
20th-century Dutch people