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- Height5′ 8½″ (1.74 m)
- Halina Reijn is a renowned director, actress, author and producer. She is the winner of multiple awards, including the Dutch film Award, the Golden Calf for Best Actress , the Dutch theater awards Theo D'Or and Colombina, as well as the Courbois pearl, an oeuvre award which honours an actress who has made an indelible impression, both on stage as in film and television. Since 2017 she is also the proud owner of the Theo Mann-Bouwmeester Ring, an award to honour an actress who has contributed greatly to the Dutch theatre.
Her critically acclaimed directorial feature film debut INSTINCT (2019), starring Carice van Houten (GAME OF THRONES) and Marwan Kenzari (ALADDIN) has been selected for film festivals in Locarno (winner Variety Piazza Grande Award and special mention First Feature Competition), Toronto (world cinema competition), BFI Londen (Sutherland competition), Gent and Chicago, and is the foreign language Oscar submission of The Netherlands. INSTINCT is the first outing for Man Up, the production banner of Halina and Carice. MAN UP's goal is to create films and television drama with high current value and relevance, told from a female perspective. To explore darker, edgy stories that, through shame or fear, often remain untold. Quality, artistic integrity and openness to their audiences defines the productions of MAN UP.
Halina was professionally trained at the Maastricht Academy of Dramatic Arts and in 1997 debuted on stage as Ophelia in Hamlet, directed by Theu Boermans. She continued to act on stage in such productions as Shopping & Fucking, Three Sisters, Mourning Becomes Electra, Hedda Gabler, La Voix Humaine, The Fountainhead and recently Obsession, opposite Jude Law. Halina works with internationally acclaimed director Ivo van Hove at the International Theatre Amsterdam, performing their plays all over the world. She starred in the Oscar nominated film ZUS & ZO, in Paul Verhoeven's critically acclaimed BLACK BOOK and in Bryan Singer's VALKYRIE, opposite Tom Cruise. She can also be seen in the Swedish series CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE, directed by Charlotte Brändström.
In 2005, her first novel Prinsesje Nooitgenoeg (Prometheus) debuted, followed by Halina: doen alsof ik iemand anders ben (Prometheus, 2009), Antiglamour (co-written with Carice van Houten, Nijgh & Van Ditmar, 2013), and Loos (Nijgh & Van Ditmar, 2016). She is working on film scripts and television series based on original ideas. In 2019, Halina was named one of 20 most influential people in the Dutch media by a leading Dutch newspaper. She writes columns for Dutch and Belgian magazines and newspapers and is regularly a co-host on one of the best watched daily news shows on Dutch TV.- IMDb Mini Biography By: nummer19 management
- Daughter of Frank Volkert Reijn, who died in 1986, and wife, whom he married in 1972, Fleur ten Kate, who was born in Velp in 1942, both artists.
- Her mother went to the Academy of Fine Arts in Tilburg and earned the diplomas MO-A and -B in drawing, painting, art appreciation, etc, and taught at the K & D and NXX training in Amsterdam from 1966 to 1972. Between 1970 and 1986, then known as Hamida, she did experimental work in textiles and wool, both spatial and two-dimensional, and the city of Amsterdam has bought her work from that period, which was also exhibited in the Oosterpoort in Groningen, in the theater in Veendam and in Germany (Leer and Emden). From 1986 to 1996 she took place as an art therapist and worked as a creative therapist, now having a practice at home.
- Starred in a 12-minute pilot of a film titled "Theresa Immaculata", directed by Ramón Gieling in 2011, co-starring opposite Sylvia Hoeks and Matthias Schoenaerts (her co-star in Black Book (2006) and Nadine (2007)). The film was never made but a 7-minute video of the pilot can be found on Youtube.
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