Renée Soutendijk
With her curly blonde hair, kewpie doll looks and trim figure, it seemed almost inevitable that Soutendijk would abandon her ambitions as an Olympic gymnast to pursue an acting career. Upon graduating from the Academy of Performing Arts in her native The Netherlands, this Nordic beauty won roles on stage and in TV and films, usually projecting cool ambition tempered with compassion. She made her feature debut in Wim Verstappen's "Pastorale 1943" (1978) but gained prominence as a short-order cook with social ambitions in Paul Verhoeven's "Spetters" (1980). Soutendijk went on to portray a resistance fighter in "Het meisje met het rede haar/The Girl With Red Hair" (1981) before reuniting with Verhoeven as a mysterious beauty shop owner who seduces a bisexual novelist (Jeroen Krabbe) in "De Vierde Man/The Fourth Man" (1982). She has appeared in numerous features in her native The Netherlands including "Abwarts/Out of Order" (1983), "Op hoop van zegen/The Good Hope" (1986) and "Eeen maand later/A Month Later" (1987). For director Krzysztof Zanussi, she portrayed the wife of a German businessman slowly slipping into madness in "Gdzieskolwiek jest, jeslis jest/Wherever You Are/Wherever She Is" (1988). In "Forced March" (1989), she played an actress appearing in a biopic of a World War II figure (Chris Sarandon) which marked her English-language debut in features. Soutendijk played a dual role of a scientist and an android built in her image in the sci-fi thriller "Eve of Destruction" (1991). She subsequently appeared in the erotic thriller "House Call/The Apartment Block/De Flat" (1994), as a doctor who falls in love with a suspected murderer (Victor Low).
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Renée Soutendijk
Filmography
Movies
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100% | No Score Yet | Sweet Dreams | Agathe (Character) | - | 2023 |
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The Claus Family 2 | Oma (Character) | - | 2021 |
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The Claus Family | Oma (Character) | - | 2020 |
66% |
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Suspiria | Miss Huller (Character) | $2.5M | 2018 |
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Boy 7 | Vermunt (Character) | - | 2015 |
20% |
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A Perfect Man | Martha (Character) | $388 | 2012 |
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The Little Riders | Beatrix Hunter (Character) | - | 1996 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | House Call | Roos Hartman (Character) | - | 1994 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Seventh Heaven | Unknown (Character) | - | 1993 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Keeper of the City | Vickie Benedetto (Character) | - | 1992 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Betrayed | Olga Grond (Character) | - | 1992 |
20% |
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Eve of Destruction |
Dr. Eve Simmons/ |
$4.4M | 1990 |
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Grave Secrets | Iris Norwood (Character) | - | 1990 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Forced March | Myra (Character) | - | 1989 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story | Cyla (Character) | - | 1989 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | King of the Olympics: The Lives and Loves of Avery Brundage | Linnea Dresden (Character) | - | 1988 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wherever You Are | Nina (Character) | - | 1988 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Scoop | Ishmaelia - Kätchen (Character) | - | 1987 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Madonna Man | Juliane Mundt (Character) | - | 1987 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Good Hope | Jo (Character) | - | 1986 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Second Victory | Traudi Holzinger (Character) | - | 1986 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Out of Order | Marion (Character) | - | 1984 |
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The Cold Room | Lili (Character) | - | 1984 |
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The Fourth Man | Christine Halsslag (Character) | - | 1983 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Cool Lakes of Death | Hedwig (Character) | - | 1982 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Girl With the Red Hair | Hannie Schaft (Character) | - | 1981 |
86% |
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Spetters | Fientje (Character) | - | 1980 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Woman Like Eve | Sigrid (Character) | - | 1979 |
TV
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Hitchhiker | Unknown (Character) | 1985 |