Carice van Houten
41 movies · 12 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Sep 5, 1976 (age 50)
- Place of birth
- Leiderdorp, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
- Also known as
- Carice Anouk van Houten · Карис ван Хаутен · Каріс ван Гаутен · 卡里斯·范·侯登
Biography
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.
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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.
Known for
Carice van Houten: movies and TV shows
Acting (53)
- 2026 A Family
as Maria
- 2025
- 2025 Miss Moxy
as Pink (voice)
- 2024
- 2024 Quota
as (voice)
- 2023 Occupied City
as Narrator (2024 version)
- 2022
- 2020
- 2020 Lost Girls & Love Hotels
as Ines
- 2019 Instinct
as Nicoline
- 2019
- 2019 Domino
as Alex Boe
- 2019 The Glass Room
as Hana
- 2016 Incarnate
as Lindsey
- 2016 Brimstone
as Anna
- 2016 Race
as Leni Riefenstahl
- 2015 Holland: The Living Delta
as Narrator (voice)
- 2015 Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience
as Melisandre
- 2013 The Fifth Estate
as Birgitta Jonsdottir
- 2012 Family Way
as Winnie de Roover
- 2012 Jackie
as Sofie
- 2011 Intruders
as Susanna
- 2011
- 2011 Black Butterflies
as Ingrid Jonker
- 2010 Kleinste Kortste Film
as Woman
- 2010
- 2010 Black Death
as Langiva
- 2010 The Happy Housewife
as Lea Meijer
- 2010 Repo Men
as Carol
- 2010 Otto Frank, the Father of Anne
as Diary fragments (voice-over)
- 2009 Gewoon Hans
as Carice van Houten
- 2009 Stricken
as Carmen
- 2009 From Time to Time
as Maria Oldknow
- 2009
- 2008 Valkyrie
as Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg
- 2008 Dorothy Mills
as Jane Van Dopp
- 2007 Love Is All
as Kiki Jollema
- 2006 Black Book
as Rachel Stein / Ellis de Vries
- 2006
- 2006 A Thousand Kisses
as Samarinde
- 2006
- 2005 Black Swans
as Marleen
- 2005 Spoon
as Juffrouw Broer
- 2005 Bonkers
as Lis
- 2003 Father's Affair
as Monika
- 2001 Miss Minoes
as Minoes
- 2001
- 2001 AmnesiA
as Sandra
- 2001 Storm in mijn hoofd
as Titania
- 2001
- 1999 Suzy Q
as Suzy
- 1998
- 1989
Talk shows and appearances (7)
- 2026 A Beautiful Mess
8 episodes
- 2016
- 2015
- 2015
- 2005 De Wereld Draait Door
6 episodes
- 1988 Zomergasten
1 episode
- 1951 German Film Award
1 episode