Carice van Houten
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
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.
Born
Sep 05, 1976
Leiderdorp, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
Known For
Acting
Movies
44 acting
1 crew
Popularity
3.1
Known For
Valkyrie
2008
as Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg
Repo Men
2010
as Carol
Black Book
2006
as Rachel Stein / Ellis de Vries
The Fifth Estate
2013
as Birgitta Jonsdottir
Black Death
2010
as Langiva
Lost Girls & Love Hotels
2020
as Ines
Brimstone
2016
as Anna
Race
2016
as Leni Riefenstahl
From Time to Time
2009
as Maria Oldknow
Incarnate
2016
as Lindsey
Add to Watchlist
Movie will be added to your watchlist