Known For
Acting
Born
Sep 05, 1976
Place of Birth
Leiderdorp, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
Credits
60 titles
Carice van Houten
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
A Beautiful Mess
Self - Host / Jury
A Family
Maria
Malice
Nat Tanner
Miss Moxy
Pink (voice)
Grandpa Cor
Quota
(voice)
Occupied City
Narrator (2024 version)
Dangerous Liaisons
Jacqueline de Montrachet
Red Light
Sylvia Steenhuyzen
Lost Girls & Love Hotels
Ines
Instinct
Nicoline
Temple
Anna
Domino
Alex Boe
The Glass Room
Hana
Incarnate
Lindsey
Verhoeven Versus Verhoeven
Self - Actress
Brimstone
Anna
Race
Leni Riefenstahl
Holland: The Living Delta
Narrator (voice)
The Magic of the Diary of Anne Frank
Self
Game of Thrones: Spanish Kingdom Special
Self
Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience
Melisandre
The Fifth Estate
Birgitta Jonsdottir
Family Way
Winnie de Roover
Jackie
Sofie
Intruders
Susanna
Game of Thrones
Melisandre
Black Butterflies
Ingrid Jonker
Kleinste Kortste Film
Woman
In therapie
Aya
Black Death
Langiva
The Happy Housewife
Lea Meijer
Repo Men
Carol
Otto Frank, the Father of Anne
Diary fragments (voice-over)
Gewoon Hans
Carice van Houten
Stricken
Carmen
From Time to Time
Maria Oldknow
Van Der Vorst Ziet Sterren
Valkyrie
Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg
Dorothy Mills
Jane Van Dopp
Love Is All
Kiki Jollema
Black Book
Rachel Stein / Ellis de Vries
Pauw & Witteman
A Thousand Kisses
Samarinde
Koppensnellers
Georgina Verbaan
De Wereld Draait Door
Self
Black Swans
Marleen
Spoon
Juffrouw Broer
Bonkers
Lis
Father's Affair
Monika