Frederik Percy de Groot (born 23 May 1946) is a Dutch actor.
Career
In the Netherlands he appeared in the detective series ''
Bureau Kruislaan'' and its spin-off ''
Unit 13''.
He is known in
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its Provinces and territories of Canada, ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, making it the world's List of coun ...
where he was the television spokesman for
ING Direct
ING Group N.V. () 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 banking, private ban ...
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
French Canadians, referred to as Canadiens mainly before the nineteenth century, are an ethnic group descended from French people, French colonists first arriving in Canada (New France), France's colony of Canada in 1608. The vast majority of ...
language spots.
Personal life
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 a daughter,
Genevieve Gaunt, who is also an actress, and portrayed
Pansy Parkinson in ''
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban''.
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 Drees Sr. (; 5 July 1886 – 14 May 1988) was a Dutch politician of the Social Democratic Workers' Party (Netherlands), Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP) and later co-founder of the Labour Party (Netherlands), Labour Party (PvdA) ...
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