Carice van Houten

Known for ActingBorn 1976-09-05 (age 49)Leiderdorp, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands

Carice Anouk van Houten, born on September 5, 1976, is a Dutch stage and film actress. One of Europe's most celebrated actresses, Carice van Houten is perhaps best known as 'Melisandre' in the iconic TV show Game of Thrones, a performance for which she has been recognized with an Emmy Award nomination in 2019. Other projects include Paul Verhoeven's award-winning Black Book and Bryan Singer's Valkyrie opposite Tom Cruise and as Melisandre on Game of Thrones. Recent projects include Instinct and Temple, a TV show for Sky opposite Mark Strong, which has been picked up for a second season. Her Dutch-language feature Love Life, gained her further critical acclaim and broke box office records in her native Holland. Her next film Happy Housewive won her a record breaking 5th Golden Calf at The Netherlands Film Festival and was voted 'Best Dutch Actress of All Time' by the Dutch audience. Other awards include Best Actress for Black Butterflies at the Tribeca Film Festival and the Best Performance award for Instinct at the Les Arcs Film Festival 2019. Her credits include Juan Carlos Fresnadillo's Intruders and Bill Condon's The Fifth Estate, the Jesse Owens biopic, Race, with Jason Sudekis and Jeremy Irons and voiced a character in The Simpsons. She can also be seen in Brian de Palma's Domino and in Brimstone, opposite Dakota Fanning, Guy Pearce and Kit Harrington, and The Glass Room, with Claes Bang. She played a leading role in Halina Reijn's directorial feature debut Instinct, opposite Marwan Kenzari (Aladdin), which won the Variety Piazza Grande Award in Locarno Film Festival 2019. Instinct is the first outing for the Carice and Halina's production banner, Man Up.Read more

Movies & web series

Storm in mijn hoofd

Otto Frank, the Father of Anne

Ivoren wachters

Zomergasten

Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience

Game of Thrones

Miss Moxy

The Simpsons

Quota

In therapie

Black Book

Race

Gewoon Hans

Brimstone

A Family

Valkyrie

Occupied City

Verhoeven Versus Verhoeven

Holland: The Living Delta

Temple

Jackie

Miss Minoes

Spoon

Red Light

Malice

Repo Men

Dangerous Liaisons

Bonkers

Love Is All

From Time to Time

Family Way

Black Death

The Fifth Estate

Dorothy Mills

The Happy Housewife

Stricken

Father's Affair

Suzy Q

A Thousand Kisses

Black Butterflies

Incarnate

Lost Girls & Love Hotels

Grandpa Cor

Intruders

German Film Award

The Glass Room

Instinct

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