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Renée Soutendijk

Highest Rated: 100% Sweet Dreams (2023)

Lowest Rated: 20% Eve of Destruction (1990)

Birthday: May 21, 1957

Birthplace: Den Haag, The Netherlands

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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Highest rated movies

100% Sweet Dreams Watchlist
100% 81% The Fourth Man
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86% 65% Spetters
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66% 72% Suspiria Watchlist
20% 14% Eve of Destruction
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20% 23% A Perfect Man
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The Madonna Man
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The Cool Lakes of Death
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House Call
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The Good Hope
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Filmography

Movies

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100% No Score Yet Sweet Dreams Agathe (Character) - 2023
No Score Yet 55% The Claus Family 2 Oma (Character) - 2021
No Score Yet 39% The Claus Family Oma (Character) - 2020
66% 72% Suspiria Miss Huller (Character) $2.5M 2018
No Score Yet 34% Boy 7 Vermunt (Character) - 2015
20% 23% A Perfect Man Martha (Character) $388 2012
No Score Yet 100% 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% 14% Eve of Destruction Dr. Eve Simmons/Eve VIII (Character) $4.4M 1990
No Score Yet 8% 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
No Score Yet 20% The Cold Room Lili (Character) - 1984
100% 81% 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% 65% 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