Christiaan Van Vuuren

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Christiaan Van Vuuren (born 1982) is an actor, writer, director and video blogger from Sydney, Australia. Van Vuuren was placed in quarantine in a Sydney hospital twice for tuberculosis. While in quarantine for six months, he gained fame via videos posted under the name The Fully Sick Rapper. He has since been featured on television programs such as Stan's The Other Guy, BBC2's STAG and Foxtel's Top of the Lake: China Girl. In 2014 and 2016, along with his brother Connor Van Vuuren, Christiaan co-wrote, co-directed and starred with Nicholas Boshier in the ABC television series Soul Mates; the three had previously collaborated on the web series Bondi Hipsters.

Works

The Alien Abduction of Emily Hill

This sci-fi rom-com follows Emily whose fiance, mid marriage ceremony, is abducted by a beam from the sky, and when it makes the news Emily finds herself sucked into her bright spotlight of fame.

Department: Writing

Job: Co-Writer

Queen of Oz

Princess Georgiana is the black sheep of a fictional British Royal Family. A PR disaster, she's spent her spoilt, party-girl life plastered over the tabloids. On the back of her latest scandal her mother, the Queen, makes the unprecedented move of abdicating her Australian throne in favour of her daughter. It is hoped that giving her some real responsibility will finally be the making of her – and if it isn't, at least shipping her off keeps her 10,000 miles away from London.

Release Date: 2023-06-16

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Character: John Frusctaine

Episode Count: 6

Vote Count: 10

Christmas Ransom

When a pair of bumbling crooks hijack the Harrington and Sons toy store, a pair of kids stumble into the heist and are forced to team up with a female security officer to save Christmas.

Release Date: 2022-12-01

Character: Photographer

Vote Count: 3

Big Deal

A look at Australia's billion-dollar political lobbying industry, Christiaan Van Vuuren's unlikely journey shows us why we should care, and how we can safeguard our democracy from being sold to the highest bidder.

Release Date: 2021-10-19

Character: Self - Presenter

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 1

Big Deal

Christiaan Van Vuuren goes on a journey exploring the frightening extent to which money has infiltrated politics.

Release Date: 2021-09-01

Character: Himself

The Moth Effect

A satirical six-part sketch comedy.

Release Date: 2021-07-30

Episode Count: 3

Vote Count: 5

Wakefield

Nikhil Katira is a psychiatric nurse working at Wakefield, a facility perched on the edge of Australia's spectacular Blue Mountains. There's one problem - while his patients are getting better, he's getting worse.

Release Date: 2021-04-18

Character: Jai

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 39

A Sunburnt Christmas

A single mother and her kids are doing it tough on their outback farm - until a runaway criminal dressed as Santa Claus crashes into their property, and their lives.

Release Date: 2020-12-11

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 13

The Hitchhiker

A wild, prosecco-fulled road trip takes an interesting turn with the pick-up of a hitchhiker.

Release Date: 2019-06-15

Vote Count: 1

Bloom

One year after a devastating flood kills five locals in an idyllic country town, a mysterious new plant appears with the power to restore their youth.

Release Date: 2019-01-01

Character: Ben

Episode Count: 6

Vote Count: 37

Sando

Sando is Australia's queen of the discount furniture package deal. She's built her empire on being a down-to-earth larrikin and is something of a national treasure - to all but her family.

Release Date: 2018-03-21

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 3

Vote Count: 1

Three Summers

Set over three summers at The Westival, a fictional West Australian rural folk festival redoubtable local radio personality ‘Queenie' describes as "Australia in a tent". Two young musicians fall in love against a wider collection of tales dealing with a microcosm of contemporary discussion points, including Indigenous, immigration and refugee issues.

Release Date: 2017-11-02

Character: Dexter

Vote Count: 14

Soul Mates

Soul Mates has fun with big life questions as the twin souls of a pair of Bondi Hipsters appear throughout history and the future in a fresh blend of sketch comedy with a narrative arc.

Release Date: 2014-10-23

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Character: Dom Nader / Roger / Dave / Rocky

Episode Count: 12

Vote Count: 5