Monique van de Ven



Monica Maria Theresia (Monique) van de Ven ( Zeeland ( North Brabant ), July 281952 ) is a Dutch-known actresses of the 70s, 80s and 90s of the 20th century. ==Biography [ edit] == Van de Ven was born in North Brabant,Zeeland and grew up in Rijswijk . Her father died when she was five years old. After unsuccessful attempts to cheer up her mother, Van de Ven decided to become an actress. [1]  They followed a year the Theatre School in Maastricht and was there in 1971 as picked for her film debut in Turkish delight .

Van de Ven 17 years was married to cameraman Jan de Bont, who she from the mid seventies to 1987 in Los Angeles lived. She was then married to actor / screenwriter Edwin de Vries, whom she met when shooting for One Month Later ( 1987 ). Together they had two children. The oldest, Nino Paolo (1992), died at the age of almost two to the effects of meningitis.Monique showed her newborn son Nino still proudly in the program in the Leading Role of Mies Bouwman . The second son, Sammy, was born in 1993.

Van de Ven has twice received a Golden Calf . In 1985, for all her work and ten years later for her performance in the film Romeo (1990). In an interview in 2010 she said that the script and the images physically and mentally so much of her demanded that she afterwards, just like her character in the film, having to deal with postpartum depression . [1]  In 1999 she was named Dutchactress of the century .

With the film adaptation of the book Summer Heat by Jan Wolkers she makes in the spring of 2008, her big directorial debut. Nevertheless, they had a 1996 short film directed, Mama's guinea pig .

On January 30, 2012 began television MAX with the 10-part series Doctor Deen, playing on Vlieland where the De Vries-Van de Ven has a home. The story is about the adventures of doctor Maria Dane, played by Monique van de Ven, based on the life of the real - male - Doctor Deen on the island. Monique and her husband Edwin came together to create the idea. A series about this doctor

Besides actress and director Van de Ven since 1996 ambassador for UNICEF Netherlands. ==Filmography [ edit] ==