Jelka van Houten

Jelka van Houten is a Dutch actress of film, stage, and television, though she is perhaps best known for being the sister of fellow actress Carice van Houten. She is currently nominated for a Gouden Notekraker; the judge's who nominated her have said that "her surprising début holds a lot in store for the future". Van Houten also received praise for her stage debut as Olga in the musical Turk's Fruit, for which she won a Johnny Kraaijkamp Musical Award. Her upcoming projects include the film Zomerhitte and the play Seksual Perversity, at the Theatre de Voorveghter.

Works

Fresh Meat

Six students — Vod Nordstrom, Oregon Shawcross, Josie Jones, Kingsley Owen, JP Pembersley, and Howard McGregor — are freshmen (save for second year Howard) at Manchester Medlock University. Having applied late to accommodation, they live in a shared, off-campus house in Whalley Range rather than the halls of residence.

Release Date2011-09-21

Charactersd Sabine

Episode Count12

Vote Count129

Gooische Vrouwen

Gooische Vrouwen is a Dutch comedy-drama series, created by Linda de Mol for her brother John de Mol's TV network Tien in 2005. However, after the show's second season, Tien went bankrupt and Gooische Vrouwen was transferred to RTL4, where it ran for three more seasons until its finale in 2009. After its 42-episode run the show was followed by a theatrically released feature film in 2011. The show chronicles the everyday lives of four female friends living in het Gooi. Gooische Vrouwen has since been sold to Germany, Belgium, France and Serbia.

Release Date2005-10-30

Charactersd Bella

Episode Count1

Vote Count13

Jeuk

Release Date2014-01-06

Charactersd Jelka

Episode Count50

Vote Count3

Hein

Hein

Release Date2024-11-10

Charactersd Meike

Episode Count1

Tropenjaren

Tropenjaren is a comedy about the whirlwind of new parenthood and a former life that’s gone for good. When Jelle and his wife Rosa welcome their first child, a new chapter unfolds. The young parents strive to do their best for their daughter Stella while also trying to keep their work lives and relationship as lively and ambitious as ever. Nights out and parties, however, quickly give way to diapers and babysitters. In short, the couple is gearing up for the tropenjaren—the intense early years of parenting.

Release Date2022-04-17

Charactersd Rosa Klein

Episode Count18

Vote Count2

Amsterdam Vice

It is the time of major social changes, squatter riots and demonstrations. The idealistic young detective Jurre de Cock is just starting at station Warmoesstraat. His partner, the purebred Amsterdammer Tonnie Montijn, shows him around the city. But then the duo comes across a criminal conspiracy, which appears to be part of a bigger plan. De Cock is also assigned a new partner: Andy Ruiter, transferred from the Bijlmer.

Release Date2019-12-30

Charactersd Selma

Episode Count8

Vote Count7

Shouf Shouf!

Release Date2006-01-01

Charactersd Alex

Episode Count24

Vote Count3

Roosters

Facing a world that has evolved without them, four friends clumsily try to adapt while keeping their relationships and careers intact.

Release Date2025-02-28

Charactersd Merel

Episode Count6

Vote Count7

De Pudding Club

De Pudding Club

Release Date2024-05-01

Charactersd Nicole

Episode Count2

Jackie

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

Release Date2012-05-10

Charactersd Daan

Vote Count47

Aaf

Release Date2013-03-16

Charactersd Jackie

Episode Count22

Vote Count1

De Poli

Release Date2023-10-22

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Charactersd Esther Bens

Episode Count[ 10 ]

Vote Count1

In A Pickle By The Sea

Patrick is a 45-year-old factory worker who still lives with his single mother. When he discovers that his estranged father is alive and living on Bonaire, he impulsively travels to the island to meet him. Shortly after his arrival, his father dies, leaving Patrick an unexpected inheritance: a struggling seaside resort. Suddenly far from the only life he has ever known, Patrick must navigate island culture, financial troubles, and his own self-doubt as he learns to take responsibility — not only for the resort, but for himself...

Release Date2025-11-06

Charactersd Helga

Vote Count2

The Domino Effect

If global economy came to a sudden stop what would be the effect on families worldwide? People in different countries or continents might not seem to be interrelated but there is more than meets the eye and we might be more connected than we sometimes like to think.

Release Date2012-10-18

Charactersd Antoinette

Vote Count7

Vicious

A girls weekend in a remote cottage in the Ardennes. Relationships are put into focus - do the four girls know everything about each other? The filming of the 'best youth book' of 2012 written by Mel Wallis de Vries.

Release Date2019-01-24

Charactersd Kim’s Mother

Vote Count66

Adem in, Adem uit

Adem in, Adem uit

Release Date2021-09-21

Charactersd Jolanda

Episode Count10

Oink

A young girl sets out to prove to her disapproving mother she can house-train the endearing but unruly little piglet she gets as a birthday gift from her estranged oddball grandfather.

Release Date2022-07-01

Charactersd Margreet (voice)

Vote Count47

Hart Beat

Making music means everything for the shy Zoë. But since her father left, she never played guitar again. When she is hit by the bus from Mik, superstar Bieber size, sparks fly allthough she is not a fan at first. Off course, people around the two love birds dont exactly cooperate to make things work...

Release Date2016-10-12

Charactersd Inge (Mother Zoë)

Vote Count93

Trollie

Trollie

Release Date2015-10-17

Charactersd Berber

Episode Count10

Nuclear Boy

The lonely 17-year-old outcast Aike craves attention and finds it online where he conducts dangerous chemistry experiments. Hoping to pull Aike out of his internet bubble, his mother, a hardworking nurse, sends him to the scouts to make real friends. When that fails, Aike feels rejected and hurt. To prove himself to the world, he begins his biggest experiment yet: he secretly builds a nuclear breeder reactor in his mother's shed, encouraged by a growing group of internet followers.

Release Date2026-01-31

Charactersd Mirna

Vote Count5

Amsterdam Vice

A mild-mannered police detective freshly stationed in tumultuous 1980 Amsterdam enters a race against time when he encounters a violent plot against the Dutch royal family.

Release Date2019-04-18

Charactersd Wachtcommandant Selma

Vote Count34

Gouden Bergen

A comic drama about six rich women in crisis who do everything to stay alive to their booth.

Release Date2015-01-07

Charactersd Noortje

Episode Count10

Vote Count2

Het Verlangen

Two brothers get caught up in a bitter battle for honor when they attempt to save their ailing publishing company by having an uncultured but attractive woman pose as the author of an unknown talent's literary masterpiece.

Release Date2017-03-23

Charactersd Mariska van Loo

Vote Count12

The Club of Ugly Children

“Keep it clean!” – The new president is serious about that, including looks. When Paul, whose large jug ears are quite apparent on class photo day, and some of the other “ugly” kids are taken on a surprise trip, they realize that the president wants to hide them away. On the run, Paul is helped by Sara, one of the “pretty” kids. They start an underground club to fight against the president. The movement soon turns into a revolution. The kids show the world that even children can rise up – and that you don’t have to be “pretty” to be a hero!

Release Date2019-10-09

Charactersd Paul's mother

Vote Count30

Mixed Up

Mixed Up

Mixed up is a drama series about the editorial staff of women's magazine ZIJ, in which the battle between the men and women on the editorial staff can get quite fierce.

Release Date2011-11-14

Charactersd Fay Vogel

Episode Count9

Jack's Wish

Jack Oei (8) has two moms, is an only child and feels lonely. Jack’s biggest wish is a brother. But no matter how much he begs his moms, the little brother just doesn’t arrive. Jack decides to take matters in his own hands….

Release Date2015-02-04

Charactersd Sanne

Vote Count7

Shit Happens

When they are confronted with the disease of the pater familias, all the members of the Liefhebber family have to face their fears, faults and their troubled interrelationships.

Release Date2019-10-24

Charactersd Laura

Vote Count7

Ome Cor

A down-on-his-luck Rotterdam dock worker struggles to get his financials and family life back on track.

Release Date2022-12-13

Charactersd Janny

Vote Count9

Harkum

Harkum

Release Date2019-10-20

Charactersd Ada

Episode Count10

Men in the City 2

A lot has changed in the lives of our men, but in the sequel to Men in the City, finding their true love turns out to be everything but a fairytale. So the search continues in full swing.

Release Date2015-12-17

Charactersd Melanie

Vote Count18

Dennis P.

Comedy inspired by the true story of Dennis P, who became Holland's biggest diamond thief, when he walked away with the entire 20 million euros stock of an international diamond trader, using a microwave oven as a swagbag.

Release Date2007-03-13

Charactersd Suzan

Vote Count15

Summer Heat

Photographer Bob loses his girlfriend. A year later he meets Kathleen. Is she in love? Or does she use him for her dark dealings with the mafia?

Release Date2008-03-20

Charactersd Jara

Vote Count20

Huisvrouwen bestaan niet 2

Three women struggle, cursing, laughing and telling each other the truth. Each with their own phase of motherhood and its effect on their lives.

Release Date2019-12-12

Charactersd Marjolein

Vote Count8

A Christmoose Story

Based on the best-selling novel, A CHRISTMOOSE STORY brings to life the tale of an unlikely friendship between a young boy and a large, talking moose. Young Max has low expectations for his first Christmas after his parents’ divorce, when suddenly a large moose crashes through the roof of his garage. And if that isn’t strange enough, the moose claims to have fallen from Santa’s sleigh! But being friends with a moose isn’t all that simple. Especially since Max’s grumpy neighbor has no interest in hanging stockings for Christmas but would love to hang up a pair of moose antlers, and Santa is out there somewhere looking to get his sleigh back!

Release Date2013-11-27

Charactersd Kirsten

Vote Count21

No Such Thing as Housewives

Two modern women and their free-spirited mother struggle to balance their private, professional and family lives.

Release Date2017-12-21

Charactersd Marjolein

Vote Count18

Trollie: The Great Rescue

When Max goes out looking for troll’s footsteps, he climbs the fence of luxury hotel Dikkersdorp. Caught by a security guard who mistakenly holds him responsible of a theft orchestrated by the mysterious Pie, Max is in trouble. Luckily, his new neighbor Sellie sets him free and, together, they meet with Trollie. Unfortunately, Sellie’s father hears about the troll and goes out of his way to expose the creature to the public. But Trollie is very miserable being put in display and Max stages his escape to reunite his troll friend with his family in the land of Ekeby.

Release Date2021-01-14

Charactersd Berber

Liefje

How reliable are memories? Liefje explores the boundary between reality and fantasy. In a therapeutic session, the 18-year-old Esther reconstructs the murder of her father that she committed with her boyfriend Erik. Flashbacks reveal the facts of the matter. The schoolgirl grows up between quarrelling parents, opposes her mother's uninhibited sexual education and despises her father Robert after he has fathered a twin with his new wife, who is much younger. She tells Erik about a vague memory of her father, allegedly abusing her sexually. Notwithstanding the difference between the gaps in Esther's memory and the facts, the outraged Erik offers her to be her avenger.

Release Date2001-03-12

Charactersd Esther Valkhof

Vote Count1

Bed & Breakfast

A socially awkward workaholic resigns on a whim and then contemplates her new future in a Groningen village full of eccentrics while wrapping the local bachelors around her finger.

Release Date2024-05-01

Charactersd Esther

Vote Count8

Near Neighbours

Three women in the big city pass each other daily but never really get to know each other. How much difference could a little bit more contact make?

Release Date2010-09-26

Charactersd Machteld

Raak

Small events in the lives of three people eventually lead to the moment at which a boy throws a rock from a bridge to hit a car. Small, unimportant causes can have big consequences.

Release Date2007-05-09

Charactersd Ingrid

Vote Count4

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 Count1

Vote Count8

De Avondshow met Arjen Lubach

Arjen Lubach dives through the issues of the day past inspiring guests to the bottom of the news. Everyone always wants to go from the issues of the day to deepening. Arjen is really looking forward to the issues of the day.

Release Date2022-02-21

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

Vote Count6

Dit Was Het Nieuws

Dit was het nieuws is a Dutch television program of RTL4, wherein two teams give a satirical account of the previous week's news. The program has the form of a game show in which two teams, each with a team leader and weekly guest, compete against each other. The scoring is not serious; after the first round, for instance, the score is always 4-4.

Release Date1996-05-17

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

Vote Count5

Weet Ik Veel

Release Date2013-03-09

Charactersd Self - Contestant

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

Make Up Your Mind

Release Date2021-05-15

Charactersd Self - Guest Panelist

Episode Count1

Vote Count3

Oh, Wat een Jaar!

Release Date2017-10-14

Charactersd Self - Guest

Episode Count1

Vote Count2

Vier handen op één buik

Vier handen op één buik

Each episode stars a new, about to be, teenage mom.

Release Date2012-12-18

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

LOL: Last One Laughing Netherlands

Amazing comedians and harder laughs! Ten talents have six hours to make the others laugh. Who will be the last one laughing?

Release Date2023-01-20

Charactersd Self - Participant

Episode Count6

Vote Count9

I Can See Your Voice

Release Date2020-10-29

Charactersd Self - Gast panellid

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

Boerderij van Dorst

Release Date2021-09-08

Charactersd Self - Guest

Episode Count1

Vote Count2

Het Perfecte Plaatje Op Reis

Eight Dutch celebrities with a passion for photography will compete against each other. This special edition will take place in beautiful Argentina. The participants will be given the most impressive assignments, with the South American country guaranteeing spectacular images.

Release Date2022-06-01

Charactersd Self - Hobby photographer

Episode Count1

Vote Count2

Jelka op eigen houtje

Jelka op eigen houtje

In this series, Jelka shows with taste and originality what is possible with ordinary housing. Each episode presents a different transformation project. Jelka designs the project, the colors and the style. She looks for furniture and does renovation and decoration work. The series takes you everywhere, even when things go wrong and the pressure is on.

Release Date2023-08-30

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Charactersd Self

Episode Count[ 6 ]

Tough as Nails

Release Date2023-01-09

Charactersd Self - Host

Episode Count8

Vote Count1

Doet-ie ‘t of doet-ie ‘t niet

Release Date2024-01-18

Charactersd Self - Team Captain

Episode Count7

Vote Count2

All Against 1

Release Date2023-11-11

Charactersd Self - Presenter

Episode Count8

Vote Count1

Anderland

Malle's miserable life changes when Bran, from the paradisical Anderland, washes ashore.

Release Date2003-09-26

DepartmentArt

JobProduction Design

Vote Count1

The sheep with 5 legs

Set in Amsterdam’s Jordaan, the remake brings back the beloved café, its barman Kootje, mate Lukas, and neighbour Doortje, now facing the threat of a nearby highway endangering the pub.

Release Date2006-12-03

Episode Count1

Vote Count3

Family Weekend

A widower invites his children for a family weekend with the announcement that he has news. He is getting married with a 30 years younger woman. The children start the competition for heritage. What is more important: money or family?

Release Date2016-02-18

Vote Count15

RTL Exclusief

RTL Exclusief

Release Date2020-12-30

Episode Count1

Honey

Eva is not getting any younger, but has a good job, a beautiful house and nice friends. When she turns 35, her friends give her the only thing preventing her from being perfectly happy: a man. When the whirl of the birthday party is over, it turns out that she, despite the fact that her fondest wish seems to be fulfilled, does not really know what to do with the present.

Release Date2004-09-29

Ook dat nog! (2025)

Ook dat nog! (2025)

Release Date2025-09-21

Episode Count5

Waldstille

In this drama, Ben is faced with the anger and grief of his entire village when, inebriated, he causes a road accident in which his girlfriend Tinka dies. Ben is sent to prison and his resentful in-laws get custody of his little daughter Cindy. When Ben after two years returns to the southern village of Waldstille, he intends to restore contact with Cindy as soon as possible - despite opposition from his parents-in-law.

Release Date2016-09-16

Vote Count1

Anna

Anna starts and ends in euphoria: brother and sister Stijn and Brecht have both put the ghosts of the past behind them and she has finally said 'yes' to the tall waiter who has been courting her for so long. In their tragic past, the mysterious Anna plays a key role. When some time later Anna suddenly reappears, she again turns the siblings' life topsy-turvy.

Release Date2007-02-05

Vote Count3

Linda's Wintermaand

Linda's Wintermaand

Release Date2020-12-06

Episode Count1

Life is Beautiful

Erasmus compiled a few thousand Adagia, each exemplifies the classical truths that are our timeless and everyday wisdom. Life is Beautiful shows us just how wondrous life really is, by reflecting, quietly manipulating and exposing every day moments and scenes in 30 short stories.

Release Date2009-06-01

Vote Count2

King Sausage

When Greetje's father Mr. Tuitjes, a butcher, decides to compete against his Italian rival Smakkerelli, their whole usually so quiet village is turned upside down. The enemies have closed the deal that whoever loses the competition organized by the Society or Meat Products from Fresh Pigs must leave town forever. And that threatens not only Mr. Tuitjes' business, but also the love between Greetje and Nol. Suddenly, the annual sausage competition becomes a devilish dilemma: will Greetje choose her father's luck, or her own?

Release Date2022-10-13

Vote Count1

Hond & ik

When reclusive Paul unexpectedly inherits a dog from a deceased relative, his carefully ordered life is thrown into chaos. The energetic dog forces him out of his comfort zone and leads him to Laura, prompting Paul to slowly rediscover love, connection, and life itself.

Release Date2026-01-15

Vote Count5