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 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.

Works

The Simpsons

Set in Springfield, the average American town, the show focuses on the antics and everyday adventures of the Simpson family; Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie, as well as a virtual cast of thousands. Since the beginning, the series has been a pop culture icon, attracting hundreds of celebrities to guest star. The show has also made name for itself in its fearless satirical take on politics, media and American life in general.

Release Date1989-12-17

Charactersd Annika Van Houten (voice)

Episode Count1

Vote Count10490

Game of Thrones

Seven noble families fight for control of the mythical land of Westeros. Friction between the houses leads to full-scale war. All while a very ancient evil awakens in the farthest north. Amidst the war, a neglected military order of misfits, the Night's Watch, is all that stands between the realms of men and icy horrors beyond.

Release Date2011-04-17

Charactersd Melisandre

Episode Count47

Vote Count25934

Malice

A charming tutor infiltrates a wealthy family's life, revealing a sinister agenda.

Release Date2025-11-14

Charactersd Nat Tanner

Episode Count6

Vote Count23

The Fifth Estate

A look at the relationship between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his early supporter and eventual colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg, and how the website's growth and influence led to an irreparable rift between the two friends.

Release Date2013-10-11

Charactersd Birgitta Jonsdottir

Vote Count1050

Brimstone

In the menacing inferno of the old North-American West, Liz is a genuine survivor who is hunted by a vengeful preacher for a crime she didn’t commit.

Release Date2016-03-12

Charactersd Anna

Vote Count1225

Black Death

As the plague decimates medieval Europe, rumours circulate of a village immune from the plague. There is talk of a necromancer who leads the village and is able to raise the dead. A fearsome knight joined by a cohort of soldiers and a young monk are charged by the church to investigate. Their journey is filled with danger, but it's upon entering the village that their true horror begins.

Release Date2010-06-07

Charactersd Langiva

Vote Count922

Valkyrie

Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitler. When events unfold so that he becomes a central player, he finds himself tasked with both leading the coup and personally killing the Führer.

Release Date2008-12-25

Charactersd Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg

Vote Count3940

From Time to Time

A haunting ghost story spanning two worlds, two centuries apart. When 13 year old Tolly finds he can mysteriously travel between the two, he begins an adventure that unlocks family secrets laid buried for generations.

Release Date2009-10-15

Charactersd Maria Oldknow

Vote Count112

Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience

The first episode of this IMAX screening takes place entirely at The Wall with the Night’s Watch (S4 EP9) hopelessly outnumbered as they attempt to defend Castle Black from the Wildings and features one the fiercest and most intense battle scenes ever filmed for television. The second episode (S4 EP10), features Dany coming to grips with the realities of ruling a kingdom, Bran learning the startling reality of his destiny and Tyrion facing the truth of his unfortunate situation.

Release Date2015-01-29

Charactersd Melisandre

Vote Count35

Spoon

Years ago, Lepel's parents left an hot air balloon world tour. He stays with granny Koppenol, who constantly exploits him for domestic chores, in her buttons shop and even as accomplice in the department store where she steals the buttons from clothes. After she won't even leave him the balloon kind salesman Max gave him, Lepel, now 9, runs away. He meets Max's slightly older daughter Pleun. Schoolmaster Bijts is also looking for him, but only as arithmetics talent for an academic schools contest. Max accidentally finds out the sad truth about Lepel's family.

Release Date2005-02-02

Charactersd Juffrouw Broer

Vote Count8

Domino

Seeking justice for his partner’s murder by an ISIS member, a Copenhagen police officer finds himself caught in a cat and mouse game with a duplicitous CIA agent who is using the killer as a pawn to trap other ISIS members.

Release Date2019-05-31

Charactersd Alex Boe

Vote Count293

Black Book

In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance.

Release Date2006-09-14

Charactersd Rachel Stein / Ellis de Vries

Vote Count1215

Repo Men

In the future, medical technology has advanced to the point where people can buy artificial organs to extend their lives. But if they default on payments, an organization known as the Union sends agents to repossess the organs. Remy is one of the best agents in the business, but when he becomes the recipient of an artificial heart, he finds himself in the same dire straits as his many victims.

Release Date2010-03-18

Charactersd Carol

Vote Count2023

Miss Minoes

A cat who turns into a young woman helps a journalist protect their town from a factory boss with an evil plan.

Release Date2001-12-06

Charactersd Minoes

Vote Count92

Lost Girls & Love Hotels

Searching for escape in Tokyo's back alleys, a haunted English teacher explores love and lust with a dashing Yakuza, as their tumultuous affair takes her on a journey through the city's dive bars and three-hour love hotels.

Release Date2020-09-18

Charactersd Ines

Vote Count200

Instinct

Nicoline, a criminal psychologist, begins work at a prison where one of her new cases, Idris — an apparently reformed sex offender — is preparing for release after five years of confinement. Despite her professional misgivings, she becomes infatuated with her charismatic, manipulative patient.

Release Date2019-10-03

Charactersd Nicoline

Vote Count54

Suzy Q

A weekend in the life of a bizarre family in the sixties. Their lives will never be the same after it.

Release Date1999-03-09

Charactersd Suzy

Vote Count36

Dorothy Mills

When a gloomy, God-fearing island community is rocked by the assault of an infant, a psychiatrist is called in to examine Dorothy Mills, the teenager accused of the crime. Despite the villagers' hostility to her inquiry, she soon comes to suspect that Dorothy suffers from multiple personality disorder...

Release Date2008-08-06

Charactersd Jane Van Dopp

Vote Count254

Race

Based on the story of Jesse Owens, the athlete whose quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in history thrusts him onto the world stage of the 1936 Olympics, where he faces off against Adolf Hitler's vision of Aryan supremacy.

Release Date2016-02-19

Charactersd Leni Riefenstahl

Vote Count1586

Temple

Talented and successful surgeon Daniel Milton has his world shattered when his wife Beth develops a fatal degenerative disease. After conventional treatment options run out, Daniel partners with the lonely yet resourceful Lee to start a literal Underground clinic in the vast network of tunnels beneath Temple Tube Station in London.

Release Date2019-09-13

Charactersd Anna

Episode Count15

Vote Count72

Stricken

Handsome Dutchman Stijn is the star of an advertising agency with his buddy Frenk and a hot womanizer. The boys start their own agency and Stijn marries colleague Carmen, who accepts his incurable greed for truly meaningless one-night-stands. Even fatherhood and a move to the boring country go well, until Carmen gets breast cancer. Now their lives are turned upside-down, maybe wrecked

Release Date2009-11-26

Charactersd Carmen

Vote Count62

Dangerous Liaisons

A pair of scheming ex-lovers attempt to exploit others by using the power of seduction. TV adaptation of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos' classic 18th Century novel "Les Liaisons Dangereuses".

Release Date2022-11-06

Charactersd Jacqueline de Montrachet

Episode Count8

Vote Count29

The Glass Room

Liesel Landauer and her friend Hana are linked by a lifelong relationship and an exceptional house built by the architect Von Abt for Liesel and her husband Viktor in Czechoslovakia in the early 1930s.

Release Date2019-03-14

Charactersd Hana

Vote Count33

Red Light

Three women become entangled in the world of human trafficking and prostitution when Esther's husband suddenly disappears. From completely different worlds, the lives of these women become intertwined. They discover that they need each other to escape from the difficult situations they find themselves in.

Release Date2020-12-04

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Charactersd Sylvia Steenhuyzen

Episode Count[ 10 ]

Vote Count27

Love Is All

A romantic comedy told with a set of interwoven Christmas tales about life, love, forgiveness and caring. A heroic vagrant becomes a TV sensation Santa Claws, while a prince takes a menial job at a department store to woo his sweetheart.

Release Date2007-10-10

Charactersd Kiki Jollema

Vote Count81

Black Butterflies

Confronted by Apartheid and a father who was Minister of Censorship, Ingrid Jonker searched for a home, searched for love. With men like Jack Cope and André Brink she found much love, but no home. Later, in his first speech to the South African Parliament Nelson Mandela read her poem "The Dead Child of Nyanga" and addressed her as one of the finest poets of South Africa.

Release Date2011-02-06

Charactersd Ingrid Jonker

Vote Count36

Incarnate

An exorcist comes up against an evil from his past when he uses his skills to enter the mind of a nine year old boy.

Release Date2016-12-01

Charactersd Lindsey

Vote Count587

Holland: The Living Delta

Enjoy an homage to the stunning scenery, majestic wildlife and ageless forces of nature found throughout Holland's lush and vivid landscapes.

Release Date2015-09-24

Charactersd Narrator (voice)

Vote Count11

The Happy Housewife

Lea is an immaculate 30-something wife whose husband’s job in real estate allows her an enviably glossy lifestyle. The word ‘emancipation’ simply isn't in her vocabulary and as long as the money rolls in, all is rosy. So, when Harry Jr. arrives, she is a little traumatized at having to swap canapés for nappies.

Release Date2010-04-15

Charactersd Lea Meijer

Vote Count43

Intruders

Though no one can see him, Hollow Face lurks in the corners, desperately desiring love but only knowing how to spread fear and hate. He creeps into the life of John Farrow after Farrow’s beloved 13-year-old daughter Mia is assaulted in their home. The line between the real and the imaginary blurs as fissures start to open within the family unit. It seems that no security measure can keep Hollow Face out.

Release Date2011-09-12

Charactersd Susanna

Vote Count541

AmnesiA

Alex, a 28 year-old photographer, is no longer able to photograph people, for some mysterious reason. Every time he focuses his camera on someone, the same woman appears in his viewfinder - an image he cannot bear. When his brother Aram, whom he has not seen or spoke to for years, unexpectedly phones him and asks him to come to their parental home because their mother is severely ill and may not have long to live, he panics. The thought of a confrontation with the area where he grew up and the renewed encounter with his family makes him feel nervous. Nevertheless, that evening he leaves for AmnesiA: the estate of his parents, the spot where he spent his youth.

Release Date2001-05-03

Charactersd Sandra

Vote Count14

In therapie

Release Date2010-07-26

Charactersd Aya

Episode Count60

Vote Count2

Family Way

All the members of the De Roover family have ended up at a point of no return in their lives where crucial choices have to be made. Winnie wants a child. Her husband Rutmer wants to get in touch with his feelings. His brother Charlie doesn't want any responsibilities. Their brother-in-law Dick wants his deceased wife back. Head of the family Arend wants to be happy. Mother Jeannette wants somebody to want her. Written by Topkapi Films

Release Date2012-11-21

Charactersd Winnie de Roover

Vote Count49

Jackie

Two Dutch twin sisters travel to the United States, looking for their long-lost mother.

Release Date2012-05-10

Charactersd Sofie

Vote Count47

Koppensnellers

Koppensnellers

Release Date2006-01-14

Charactersd Georgina Verbaan

Episode Count28

Quota

When every global citizen is mandated to participate in a program that tracks their CO2 emissions, it makes little impression. Until they discover what happens when their designated quota has been reached.

Release Date2024-09-05

Charactersd (voice)

Vote Count7

Kleinste Kortste Film

There‘s a finger. She bites it.

Release Date2010-09-29

Charactersd Woman

Father's Affair

Armin is in crisis. One fateful day he discovers he is infertile and has been throughout his life. From this he discovers his first wife, Monika, was unfaithful before she died. How else could she have the child that Armin always thought was his? His paranoia drives him to find the truth.

Release Date2003-12-11

Charactersd Monika

Vote Count22

Occupied City

The past collides with the present in this excavation of the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam: a journey from World War II to recent years of pandemic and protest and a provocative, life-affirming reflection on memory, time and what's to come.

Release Date2023-11-30

Charactersd Narrator (2024 version)

Vote Count14

Black Swans

Two passionate people, Marleen and Vince, embark on a scorching love affair. They are sucked down by the fierceness of their feelings and literally drown in them..

Release Date2005-07-14

Charactersd Marleen

Vote Count6

Luifel & Luifel

Luifel & Luifel

Release Date2001-02-19

Charactersd Roos

Episode Count1

Bonkers

Bonnie, a nine-year-old single child, is part of a family of three living in the Netherlands. They have a love of elephants, passed on by Bonnie's grandfather's grandfather who worked on a game reserve in Africa, and Bonnie feels that she instinctively does things like an elephant as a result. Her single mother, Lis, is bi-polar and at times spends days on end without even getting out of bed. Then there are other times when she will manically do wild acts, such as impromptu dancing in public. As a result, Bonnie's sturdy and stable grandmother must hold the family together by doing all the cooking, etc. After her grandmother is killed by a car, Bonnie becomes the most responsible family member and struggles with preparing meals and getting her reluctant mother to take her medication. She also must dodge Jorien, a social worker who is attempting to place her in a foster home.

Release Date2005-01-01

Charactersd Lis

Vote Count10

A Thousand Kisses

Rising, rather autobiographical novelist Giph has a hot girlfriend, doctor and model Samarinde. His crude, domineering and progressive mother Ria's suffering an incurable decease in which she suffers from paraplegia. Her inevitably ensuing death is brought forward with euthanasia. Giph is struggling to handle the situation with his mother. Shortly after his mother has passed he away, he decides to join his fun loving friends on La Palma for a holiday. There Samarinde tells her boyfriend she's expecting his baby

Release Date2006-03-09

Charactersd Samarinde

Vote Count21

Gewoon Hans

The father of the seventeen-year-old Katinka is a huge fan of the Dutch comedian Hans Teeuwen. The small house of the Vermeulen family breathes him: the TV blares Hans Teeuwen shows all day long, there are posters everywhere and numerous CDs and DVDs swing through the room. The Teeuwen Excess leads to fears and delusions in Katinka. She gets nightmares in which Hans Teeuwen reveals himself to her: she hears his voice regularly and she thinks she sees him appear now and then. Katinka tells her psychiatrist about her nightmare that Hans Teeuwen rapes her teddy bear while calling out her name. The psychiatrist advises her to meet Teeuwen in real life, because in this way she may be able to adjust the image she has created herself.

Release Date2009-12-30

Charactersd Carice van Houten

Vote Count5

De Wereld Draait Door

Talk show hosted by Matthijs van Nieuwkerk containing a mixture of news, information, television bloopers and general entertainment.

Release Date2005-10-10

Charactersd Self

Episode Count5

Vote Count7

German Film Award

Release Date1951-06-06

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

Verhoeven Versus Verhoeven

A look at the life and provocative film work of controversial Dutch filmmaker Paul Verhoeven.

Release Date2016-09-24

Charactersd Self - Actress

Vote Count7

The Magic of the Diary of Anne Frank

Dutch presenter Astrid Joosten travels the world to find out why Anne Frank's written words in her diary still inspires hope and regardless of own circumstances, works for unity and peace.

Release Date2015-04-29

Charactersd Self

Vote Count1

A Beautiful Mess

A Beautiful Mess

In A Beautiful Mess, Carice van Houten challenges ten Dutch celebrities to become the best fashion stylist in the Netherlands. That's easier said than done, because all the outfits, looks, and styles are created from vintage and secondhand clothing. From donation containers to vintage shops, clothing is everywhere. And what's a hand-me-down for one person is another's source of inspiration. Everything is covered: your grandmother's wardrobe and the hippest shops in Rotterdam. In this competition, the celebrities will have to use all their creativity to win. Forget about new items; the fresh looks in A Beautiful Mess ultimately prove how stylish and valuable repurposing clothing can be.

Release Date2026-05-21

Charactersd Self - Host

Episode Count6

Zomergasten

Zomergasten

This VPRO's ‘summer classic’ is based on an equally simple and refreshing idea that originated in 1988: When during the summer most of the channels are showing reruns, ask interesting people people to curate their ‘favorite television evening’ and let them clarify the fragments in a long-form interview/conversation. The programme was first aired in 1988. Each episode takes up an entire Sunday evening, lasting typically three hours. It consists of an in-depth studio interview with a notable Dutch, Belgian or other Dutch-speaking foreigner, interspersed with cinema or television footage selected by the guest, which is subsequently discussed. Guests include writers, scientists, television personalities, politicians or business people.

Release Date1988-07-03

Episode Count1

Pauw & Witteman

Pauw & Witteman is a Dutch late-night talk show, hosted by Jeroen Pauw en Paul Witteman. It is generally focused on current affairs and politics. It is broadcast every weekday at 11 pm on Nederland 1. It is produced by Dutch public broadcasters NPS and VARA. During summer Pauw & Witteman are replaced by Knevel & Van de Brink, a talk show hosted by Andries Knevel and Thijs van den Brink, produced by the dutch evangelical broadcasting company, the EO.

Release Date2006-09-04

Episode Count1

Vote Count2

A Family

Teenage brother and sister Eli and Nina try to keep their heads above water while the marriage of their parents collapses into divorce.

Grandpa Cor

When Grandpa Cor has to take care of his grandson Coentje, he gets tempted to participate in a card tournament and loses track of Coentje. His daughter Carola is furious and forbids her father from having any further contact with his grandson

Release Date2024-10-17

Vote Count5

Acteurs, De

Acteurs, De

Release Date2001-06-03

Episode Count1

Van Der Vorst Ziet Sterren

Van Der Vorst Ziet Sterren

Release Date2009-01-16

Episode Count1

Ivoren wachters

The 17-year old Philip gets in a conflict with his teacher. When he visits his teacher's home to apologize, Philip meets Lida, Frits' girlfriend.

Release Date1998-10-18

Storm in mijn hoofd

The actor Lucas Bron performs the play King Lear by William Shakespeare for the pupils of his son Patja. After the show, Patja has already got home when he is warned that his father's house is on fire. He rushes to the fateful spot. The fire brigade has already arrived and is unable to say whether his father is still in the house. Patja desperately runs into the burning house and finds his father unconscious on the kitchen floor. But Lucas' spirit is in the theatre. In a magic train of thought, just before he dies, Lucas directs and acts, assisted by his son, high points and low from his eventful life in the theatre, but also outside. Theatre and reality become intertwined. It slowly becomes clear that Lucas still has something to tell his son.

Release Date2001-03-12

Vote Count1