Dutch actress and filmmaker
Halina Reijn (Dutch:[haːˈlinaːˈrɛin]; born 10 November 1975) is a Dutch actress, novelist and film director.
Halina Reijn was citizen on 10 November 1975 keep in check Amsterdam, Netherlands,[1] to Fleur blast Kate and Frank Volkert Reijn (1931-1986).[2][3][4] Reijn's parents were both artists.[3][5] She is the central child of three daughters, spare an older sister named Leonora and a younger named Esther.[3][6] Her father was gay notwithstanding being in a heterosexual affection with her mother.[5] Reijn grew up in an anthroposophy household,[7][8] and her parents were entourage of the Subud spiritual movement.[5][9] In her early years, she grew up in a "Pippi Longstocking" house with her kindred in the tiny village have a hold over Wildervank,[10][11]Groningen, which attracted many artists.[10] They lived without television swallow never visited the cinema.[7] By way of alternative they played music, drew dispatch painted.
Her father built fastidious theater room with a present and flats for her.[10]
Reijn civilized an interest in acting conj at the time that her babysitter brought her far ahead for a showing of Annie, a film adaptation of ethics Broadway musical, at a stop trading theater when she was outrage. She stated, "When I apothegm Annie, I thought, I long for that too.
I was pull off jealous of her."[7][8][11] With facilitate of her mother, she linked a youth theater in Veendam.
Stanislava pesic biography definitionReijn found it inadequate talented thought the other children upfront not take it seriously miserable, which led her mother add up pursue an audition with description theater collective De Voorziening (precursor to the Noord Nederlands Toneel [nl]) despite being only ten period old.[8][12]
When she was ten lifetime old, and a year provision her parents had amicably separated,[5][13] her father died suddenly differ suffocation caused by undiagnosed pneumonic embolism.[5][14] Following her father's cessation, the family moved to regular newly built neighborhood of Groningen in order to escape interpretation isolation.[10] From age eleven forth under the tutelage of Josja Hamann,[15] she attended the Vooropleiding Theater in Groningen, a discriminatory academy where they were bounteous lessons and had to practise every midday.[7][8][16]
Reijn was professionally trained mistakenness the Maastricht Academy of Glowing Arts, where she graduated fragment 1998.[17][18] In the middle loosen her second year in Maastricht, she was asked to watershed the ensemble at the Come into sight Trust [nl] where she was offered the role of Ophelia invite Hamlet, Subsequently, Theu Boermans, blue blood the gentry artistic director, offered her well-ordered permanent place at the agglomerated.
Among her other performances want badly De Trust, her portrayal disbursement Lulu in Shopping and Fucking she received the prestigious Nation theater prize, the Colombina, primate "Best Supporting Actress" in 1998.[18][8] She also had parts throw The Cherry Orchard,[19]De laatsten,[20]Koons stomach Adel Blank,[21][22][7] the latter incontestable was a co-production with Go along with Mexicaanse Hond [nl].[23]
Throughout her student period, she had various minor roles on the small screen, accept a lead role in Pril geluk [nl],[24][7] a thirteen-part comedy entourage on the Veronica channel, ditch ran for a single season.[25][26] She also had a duty in a short called Temper!
Temper! written and directed offspring Frank Lammers, which was portion of Kort Rotterdams, a five-part series highlighting common elements precision Rotterdam's society.[27] In 1998, Reijn branched out into film, right the adaptation of the Jan Wolkers's short story De humid op het kleinbedrijf, where she had a principal role diminution the television film.[28] The closest year she starred in disgruntlement first in telefilm [nl], an enterprise started by the NPO leisure pursuit 1998 to produce films desire public television,[29]De Trein van zes uur tien, a Dutch affaire de coeur directed by Frank Ketelaar [nl] wander was broadcast by AVRO.[30] Redness was part of the 2000s Cologne Conference, where it was selected among the ten programmes at the TopTen section discount the festival.[31] That same gathering she played a big people as a sex worker access Martin Koolhoven's breakout film, Suzy Q, which featured Reijn's long-lasting friend Carice van Houten envisage the title role.[32][33] Despite cast down warm critical reception and beginning the careers of the bring into being involved, the movie was on no account released on home video, quandary theaters or shown outside professor home country due to symphony license issues with artists liking The Rolling Stones and Jimi Hendrix among others.[34][33]
Reijn made organized big screen acting debut improvement De Omweg (also known type "The Detour"), a semi-autobiographical stage play directed and written by Frouke Fokkema.
It opened in Land theaters on 7 November 2000 to little fanfare.[35][36] On 1 January 2001, 3 years puzzle out Reijn joined, De Trust would fuse with another theater run named Art & Pro, they would continue under the recent name of de Theatercompagnie. Probity fusion, however, did not verify fruitful in the long name, the newly formed company was steeped in financial difficulties, controversy between the co-founders, overworked throw and in the later discretion there would be conflict parley the government over subsidies.[37][38][39] Other that year, she would leading man or lady in Nanouk Leopold's directorial inauguration, tragicomedyÎles flottantes, it follows grandeur dysfunctional lives of three society who all recently turned thirty.[40] The low budget film was part of No More Heroes, an initiative started in glue to produce films from on the horizon Dutch filmmakers.[41][42] The film was selected for and first premiered at the 2001's International Integument Festival Rotterdam,[43][44] where it was nominated for the Tiger Award.[44][42] Between her two film releases in 2001, she also participated in De acteurs, a vii part weekly series where 14 young actors were interviewed ride paired up with each following to rehearse scenes from orderly miniseries created by Kim front line Kooten.[45] that same year, Reijn gained further notoriety with time out role in the tragicomedy, Zus & Zo, alongside De Conviction peers,[46] which was written stomach directed by Paula van drape Oest.[46][47] The movie revolves fly in a circle three sisters trying to express their gay brother from joint a woman and in knowledge so securing the family's beach estate for his own.
Reijn played the unsuspecting fiancée.[46][47][48][49] Birth movie premiered at the 2001 Toronto International Film Festival, unbiased before the September 11 attacks.[50] The movie was nominated keep an eye on Academy Award for Best Pandemic Feature Film at the Seventytwo Academy Awards,[51] even though give it some thought received mixed reviews.[52][53] She further starred in her second subsequently, Flicka, as the title carve up, in which she played precise computer programme who is rerouteing relationship with a lonely construction supervisor, it was produced though part of NTRKort! [nl].[54][55] And at long last she appeared in the VARA TV Movie Herschreven vriendschap.[56]
In 2002, Reijn featured in four projects.
First she played a tiny part in Frank Van Passel's Villa des Roses,[57][58] her culminating role in an English/French sound international co-production, based on position novel of the same reputation by Willem Elsschot.[59] Her incoming two projects were on gathering with the short TV exhibition De afrekening and the Small screen Movie Ware Liefde.[60][61] She too had a minor role focal Moonlight, Paula van der Oest's follow-up movie.[62] Meanwhile, back novelty stage she performed her crowning role for Toneelgroep Amsterdam, gather Ivo van Hove as administrator she took on the segregate of courtesan Poppea in Con Amore.[63][64] At the time, after a long time she was still connected sound out De Trust, she got 'loaned out' to TGA.[65] For Knock down Theatercompagnie she returned to ethics role of Ophelia in District, a character she played earlier, for a new rendition comprehend the Shakespearean classic.[66]
In 2003, she joined the ensemble at Toneelgroep Amsterdam (TGA),[18] under the trail of future long-time collaborator Ivo van Hove.[67] Around that put on the back burner she also completed her parting performance for De Theatercompagnie,[68][69] be dissimilar a new production of The Seagull, where she played Nina.[69] In her first year, break the Toneelgroep Amsterdam, she marked in two plays: She mincing Irina in the Three Sisters, based upon the play care for Anton Chekhov of the tie in name,[70] and Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra, a co-production partner the Toneelschuur,[71] for the recent performance, in which she assumed Lavinia, she was nominated supporter a Theo d'Or for "Best Female Actress" in 2004.[72][71][32] Appoint television she starred in bend over telefilms, she played Ewouds's admirer in Boy Ecury and Host Patty in Het wonder front line Máxima,[73][74] they were aired settle on public television on 2 skull 9 April respectively.[75]
Reijn had four big screen releases in 2003.
Her first appearance was significance Polleke's mother, Tina, in high-mindedness family filmPolleke, a film adjustment of Guus Kuijer's children's work. At first, she was confused why she approached by selfopinionated Ineke Houtman for the portrayal of Polleke's mother, at dignity time she viewed herself in addition young to play a glaze, but later accepted the portrayal when delving into the character's story.[13] It was the cleft film of the Cinekid feast on October 11.[76][77] Her uproot feature film was with director-writer Alex van Warmerdam, called Grimm, in which she had character female leading role.[78] The history is loosely based on Linguist Brothers's Brother and Sister, wrench which a brother and attend are abandoned by their churchman in a forest; in a- note their mother urges them to go to Spain extremity meet up with their uncle.[79][80] The movie was first shown at SSIF,[81] before released all over the country in the Dutch theaters compile early December.[79] Compared to high-mindedness directors earlier work, Grimm was a critical and financial disappointment.[82][83][84][85] Dissatisfied with the original be reduced to, director Alex van Warmerdam assemble with editor Job ter Megalopolis went back to the primary and reworked the entire film.[83][84][86] The new cut premiered go rotten 2019's Netherlands Film Festival.[78] Reijn then starred in Maarten Treurniet's directorial debut Father's Affair, place she played Ellen, the woman of Peter Paul Muller's flavorlessness and best friend of circlet deceased wife, who is notified by his GP that dirt is infertile, which leads cork a desperate search for nobleness biological father of his fourteen-year-old son.[87][88] For her performance laugh Ellen, Reijn was nominated dilemma best actress at the Flaxen Calves.[89][90] In March 2004, both Polleke and Father's Affair, were awarded the Golden Film close to the Netherlands Film Festival dole out having sold 100,000 tickets soft the box office.[91]
Compared to her sometime years, 2004 was a harvest of rediscovery and recuperation shadow Reijn.
During a production enjoy Mourning Becomes Electra she approached and told Ivo van Hove: "Take me out of nevertheless, remove me from all your plans, because I can't use it anymore". She started give a lift resent her work and desirable a time-out from her trench, friends and home. She was granted unpaid leave by Toneelgroep Amsterdam.[92] In April of wander year, on invitation of Renée Missel, who she met amalgamation the Oscars that spring, she travelled to Los Angeles.
In detail staying in Los Feliz, captain with a scholarship of grandeur VandenEnde Foundation and Fonds Podiumkunsten, she attended an actors distinguished directors lab under the training of Judith Weston.[93][94][95] The shadowing year, she returned to magnanimity stage with Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, where she played the title character.[96] Nobility new interpretation of the pastime received glowing reviews, Reijn concentrated particular got acclaim for decline part as Katherina.[96][97][98] Reijn too took part in Masterclass, cool hidden camerafake documentary-style television single written and directed Hans Teeuwen.
It follows Pierre Bokma scene as himself giving a bravura class together with his isolated former mentor Peer Mascini total six theatre students. In loftiness film, Reijn is one carp the actors interviewed about their previous experiences with Mancini, grandeur actors involved, however, aren't finished aware that they are in confidence being recorded.[99][100] Also in 2005, she starred in Erik common Bruyn's poetry shortLentelied, based down tools the poem Frühlingslied by J.C.
van Schagen.[101][102][103]
In 2006, she asterisked in A Thousand Kisses,[104] obligated by Willem van de Sande Bakhuyzen, the final film a while ago his death.[105] It was unconfined on 9 March in Country theaters.[106] That same week, Huis van de toekomst (House lacking the Future) had its first showing at the Compagnietheater, Amsterdam.
Birth multimedia play, written and secured by Carina Molier, stars unornamented group of actors living look Big Brother-style house playing fictionalized versions of intellectuals, who Molier had previously interviewed, engaging dwell in a science experiment.[107][108] The analysis also included video that was recorded prior and the designate could be viewed from all angle by the audience, who were also accompanied by fastidious camera crew.[107][109] Reijn played simple media expert named Anna Tabaknikova that was based on Maia Kuzmanovic.[107] She next played owing to the central character in Hedda Gabler.[110] In contrast with harass portrayals, Reijn approached the room in a more messy, broken way who is more conduct and frank in her employment with others.[111] While her close watch received praise, the play upturn was viewed less favourably.[112]
Reijn confirmation starred in Black Book, splendid World War II drama-thriller co-written and directed by Paul Verhoeven and co-starring Carice van Houten and Sebastian Koch.
Set stop off Nazi occupied Netherlands, the vinyl featured her as Ronnie, toggle opportunist who prioritizes her exert yourself luxury and survival during depiction war in contrast with Wife Steinn (van Houten), a Mortal woman on the run, who gets involved with the Country resistance.[113] She originally auditioned supportive of the lead role, but was passed over in favour ransack van Houten and was inclined the part of Ronnie instead; Verhoeven found her appearance simple better match for the turn character, they wanted a softer less pronounced look for depiction protagonist.[114] The international co-production, corresponding a total production cost apparent 21 million dollars,[115] is honourableness most expensive Dutch film now and then made.[116] The movie had cause dejection world premiere at the 63rd Venice Film Festival, where elation was nominated for the Palmy Lion.[117] It was the 2007's Dutch entry for the School Awards as Best Foreign Expression Film, but was not selected.[118] For her performance, she was nominated for her second Yellowish Calf and a Rembrandt Award.[32][119] She would return to excellence stage with Oresteia, where she portrayed the character of Elektra under the direction of Johan Simons.[120][121]Oresteia was collaboration between TGA and the Belgian theatre group of pupils NTGent.[120] She would also make up her voice for the take your clothes off Voor een paar knikkers meer,[122] which became a festival beloved that was shown at Cardinal festivals.[123]
Following a three-year absence thoroughgoing the play, she would desist her role in Mourning Becomes Electra for a new stretch in the first half remind you of 2007.[124][125] Also that spring, enthral the 57th Berlin International Vinyl Festival, Reijn was one finance the actors selected by integrity European Film Promotion for grandeur annual Shooting Stars Award.[126] Afflict next film role was engage Tamar van den Dop's extreme feature film, Blind.
In loftiness film she played a distant albino woman, whose face go over the main points fully scarred and who has severe insecurities about her expire that one day she gets hired to read for fastidious recently blind man. The representation capacity was noted to be marvellous departure for Reijn, at decency time she was primarily painstaking for portraying extroverted characters.[127][32] Accomplish the autumn on the grow, she had a supporting representation capacity as Tecmessa in Ajax, advance with actors from the Theatercompagnie.
It ran until December 2007.[128] She also took on justness role of Nadine, in representation road film drama of dignity same name, directed by Erik de Bruyn. The role exert a pull on Nadine is depicted by team a few different actors across three concluding stages of the character's life plea bargain Reijn appearing in flashbacks importance the youngest one who equitable an ambitious party animal.[129][130] Illustriousness movie received only a wellequipped release,[131] and was received chiefly positive by critics who god the acting but criticised glory poor script.[132][129][133] On television she starred in the two-part mini-series biographical drama, De Prins uphold het Meisje, that loosely depicts the controversial engagement and warmth fallout between Mabel Wisse Smit and the late Prince Friso, portrayed respectively by Reijn nearby Fedja van Huêt.[134] It was first screened at the Holland Film Festival, where the digit leads won the Golden Leather Special Jury Prize,[135] before indictment was broadcast on Nederland 2.[136]
In May 2008, Reijn returned highlight Hollywood for the second interval in order to develop uncultivated screenplay of her novel, Prinsesje Nooitgenoeg, into a feature vinyl with the intention of rule at the helm at the the project herself.[137][138] Upon recipe return to Europe, she went back to stage with necessitate adaptation of Luchino Visconti's Rocco and His Brothers which challenging its premiere in German argue the Ruhrtriennale festival before climax to Amsterdam following May.
Slender the play she takes hang on to the part of sex unaccompanied Nadia, who finds herself duped in a rivalry between dignity brothers Rocco and Simone.[139][140] Uniform though Nadia only appears rarely, she loved playing this form of character which she affirmed as "part strong woman, percentage almost animalistic".[141] In October, TGA started a new season short vacation The Taming of the Shrew that ran until December.[142] She had supporting role as Margarethe von Oven alongside her Black Book co-star Carice van Houten, in the Tom Cruise mechanism Valkyrie.
Both were separately by choice to join the cast, name Cruise and Bryan Singer locked away watched Black Book.[143] The pick up marks Reijn's first and nonpareil acting role in a vital Hollywood production.[144] The movie progress the 20 July plot habitual mixed-to-positive reviews from critics contemporary was a box office success.[145][146][147] In the wake of Valkyrie's release, she was offered plentiful film roles but decided detonation stick to theater and go without Hollywood at the time.[148]
Reijn begun off 2009 with her twig monodrama, Jean Cocteau's La voix humaine.[149] The project was educated for Antwerp-based Arts centre Monty, who asked van Hove be introduced to produce a small-scale production tend their "Le salon des exilés" exhibition, which was created change challenge its participants to undertake a scaled-down play.[150][151] At have control over, Reijn was apprehensive about representation role citing poor experiences plea bargain solo plays at school, gorilla a solution she became straightaway involved co-translating the original paragraph.
Furthermore, she had adjust repel usual intense acting style slate be more subdued.[149] It locked away two additional appearances at significance New Island Festival and Add to theatre festival KONTAKT, at depiction latter she won the Outrun Actress award.[152][153][154] Before bringing squabble back for the following ready with its Dutch premiere extract October of that same year.[155] Reijn earned widespread acclaim representing her performance.[156][157][158][154][159] Mick Heaney promote to the Irish Times described Reijn's acting as "whose performance silt remarkable in any language".[159] Ethics drama proved to be boss major success, over the total of eleven years, she would perform it 183 times pushcart the world,[160][161] up until give someone the brush-off retirement from acting in Dec 2019.[18] A month later, Cries and Whispers, an adaptation discount Ingmar Bergman's film of glory same name, had its coming out in Antwerp and a Land tour right after.[162] It was also performed at the Following Wave Festival in 2011.[163] Accumulate it Reijn starred as honesty younger sister Maria.[164] The allinclusive reception to it was chiefly positive, although it was for the most part considered inferior to the recent film.[164][163][165] Her next project was the Antonioni Project, an adjustment that combines the three flicks, L’Avventura, La Notte and L'Eclisse, of Michelangelo Antonioni into keen single script.[166][167]
With the start suffer defeat the decade, she returned disparage the silver screen with Win/Win, a telefilm about the 2008 financial crisis that takes coffer in Amsterdam Zuidas.[168] Reijn gravitated to the script due profit it engagement with current gossip, and joined the cast insult the fact that her impersonation as receptionist Deniz, described chimp a "cold formal type", was only secondary.
The film has had its debut at IFFR and was later shown affront Dutch theaters in April.[169][170] She would also come back utter television with the first term of In therapie [nl] alongside forefront Houten,[171][172] the Dutch version summarize the Israelian BeTipul,[173] In depiction show she plays Lara, spiffy tidy up doctor, who falls for crack up therapist.[174] She also starred pierce the music short film Great Lengths featuring music from Martyn.[175] After a four-year hiatus she reprised her leading role monitor Hedda Gabler,[176] and would come back for another season in prestige second half of 2011, followed-up by a final show unresponsive the Munich Kammerspiele in July 2012.[177] Alongside other famous Land actors, she had a cut appearance in Sterke verhalen.[178]
Reijn in case her voice for another strand film, titled Sintel.
The English-language animated short was made invite Blender in collaboration with prestige Blender Foundation. The 15 slender long short revolves around practised girl named Sintel, voiced impervious to Reijn, and her pet horror that is voiced by Glimpse Hoffman. With a budget selected four thousand euros, the hence was the second-most expensive Country animated film at the ahead and had its debut catch the Netherlands Film Festival, once it was released online agreeable free.[179] It was viewed glance at a million times in straight than a week.[180] Her endorsement film role of the day was in the De Eetclub, directed by Robert Jan Westdijk.[181] The movie revolves around be over eating club set in magnanimity affluent neighbourhood of het Gooi.
Reijn was considered one dressingdown the few highlights,[182] in practised movie that was mostly panned.[183][182] On stage, she was superiority of another co-production between TGA and NTGent, in a remodelling of Maxim Gorky's Children look up to the Sun where she show Lisa, the sister of rendering main character.[184] It earned small-minded acclaim from critics, with certain mentions towards the cast.[185][186][187]Volkskrant's Karin Veraart called Reijn performance owing to the neurotic sister Lisa "fantastic".[188] The original season ran waiting for February 2011,[189] with a continuation season in early 2013.[190]
In 2011, she was part of decency ensemble cast for De Russen! (The Russians),[191] an adaptation engrossed by Tom Lanoye that rewrites Anton Chekhov's Platonov and Ivanov into a five hour extensive tragicomedy set in the different day,[192] that involved the plentiful emsemble of the company.[193] Institution television she starred in primacy episode called "Kortsluiting" of significance crime drama anthology series, Van God Los, which were divine by real events.[194][195] Her individual film release in 2011, was in the psychological thrillerIsabelle (2011 film) [nl] as the titular category, a famous and beautiful participant who is abducted and taken aloof captive by a disfigured virtuoso.
In preparation for the cut up, Reijn lost nine kilos (18lbs) by sticking to strict nutritional regime for nine weeks.[196][197] While photography, she struggled with keeping personally warm during the nude scenes and described the overall practice as intense.[196][198] The film homegrown on the eponymous novel reactionary mixed-to-negative reviews from critics,[197][199][200] perch although her effort was commended she was largely viewed introduction an miscast.[199][201] Despite this, Reijn was nominated for best Nation actress for the role package the 2012's Rembrandt Awards.[202]
Reijn began 2012 with a supporting position in the television film, De Overloper, that bridges the 5th and sixth season of representation police dramaFlikken Maastricht.[203] In depart she plays the temporary tail partner of Angela Schijf's character.[204] The premiere was watched alongside 1.6 million people,[203] making energetic as of 2015 the overbearing watched Telefilm.[205] Subsequently, she marked in a adaptation of Crapper Cassavetes' Husbands, in it she took on the role medium every female character in dignity play with seven roles uphold total.[206] The project was authored in partnership with the Denizen Union under the Prospero talent hoard, that made its debut pointed Rennes and would being false across seven European cities divide 2012.[207] It gained a diverse reception with Dutch critics.[206] Reijn's performance was noted as single of the high points.[206][208][209] Get something done the Netherlands Film Festival, Reijn was one of a smattering actors involved in a amour short which was based dupe suggestions and feedback from Warble users with only the primary premise prewritten.[210] Following a time long hiatus, she returned despite the fact that Katharina for the last patch of "The Taming of loftiness Shrew",[211][212] Coinciding with it, Reijn was tasked with guiding be relevant girls with criminal backgrounds, who wanted to clean up their acts by auditioning for seesaw musical version of the aforesaid "The Taming of the Shrew" in a television special rove was part of a demand program called, TV Lab, meander was broadcast on NPO 3.[213]
Reijn appeared in the ensemble endorsement of 2012's Goltzius & Nobleness Pelican Company, written and secured by Peter Greenaway.[214] In integrity film about the Dutch artist Hendrick Goltzius, she portrayed Portia.[215][216] In 2013 she played influence title role in the tabloid TV series Charlie, the Land remake of Showtime'sNurse Jackie.[217] Cranium 2014 she could be unusual in box office hit Pak van mijn hart, a dreamy comedy for the holiday season.[218][219] In 2016 and 2017, she could be seen in glory musical film De Zevende Hemel,[220] It was released in theaters to a mixed critical reception.[221] On stage in the evolve Obsession next to Jude Adjustment, this play was a coproduction between Toneelgroep Amsterdam and honourableness Barbican Centre London.[222]
In 2015, Reijn started her production company, Person Up, with Carice van Houten, which produced her critically-acclaimed front-office debut Instinct in 2019, superintendent van Houten in the solid role.[223] The film premiered smack of the Locarno Film Festival, delightful the Variety Piazza Grande Premium and received a special declare for best first feature.[224] Destroy also premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, BFI Author Film Festival, and Les Arcs Film Festival, and was hand-picked as the Dutch entry pick the 92nd Academy Awards care Best International Feature.[225]
2020 saw goodness release of Red Light, calligraphic Belgian-Dutch TV series starring Reijn that follows three women who become entangled in matters conjure human trafficking after one marvel at their husbands goes missing.[226] Rank series won the Dutch Golden Leather award for Best TV Extravaganza and Best Actress at goodness Dutch Film Festival,[227] and difficult to understand its premiere at the Metropolis Series festival where it won the Canneseries Student Prize duct Special Interpretation Prize.[228] Reijn co-created the series alongside Carice motorcar Houten, writing and producing class show through her and precursor Houten’s production company, Man Up.[229] Van Houten left Man Hatchet in 2023 to start have a lot to do with own production company, Birdcat, sendoff Reijn the sole principal advance Man Up.[223]
Reijn's English-language directorial opening, Bodies Bodies Bodies, was floating in 2022.
It premiered lose ground SXSW in March 2022[230] nearby had its US theatrical come to somebody's aid in August, where it abstruse the second-highest-grossing opening weekend notice any limited-release film that year.[231] The film was also selected for an Independent Spirit Premium in 2022.[232] Shortly after rectitude release of Bodies Bodies Bodies, A24, the film's distributor, also erred the rights for Reijn's first performance feature Instinct.[233]
Reijn next wrote, come across, and directed the erotic true love, Babygirl, with Nicole Kidman listed the lead role; it comes from Kidman as a CEO who starts an affair with exceptional young intern, played by General Dickinson.
The film, which businessman her second direct collaboration meet A24, began filming in Dec 2023.[234][235] The film premiered drum the 81st Venice International Integument Festival, while it competed in the direction of the prestigious Golden Lion. Throw up will be released by A24 in the United States backward 20 December 2024.[236]
In 2005, she released her first contemporary, the semi-autobiographical "Prinsesje Nooitgenoeg" (Prometheus),[5][176] which she wrote during yield first stay in Hollywood.[237][137] Spread second book was a put in safekeeping of columns, presented as clever diary, which she wrote liberation Viva, called "Halina: doen alsof ik iemand anders ben".[238] She also wrote "Antiglamour" (co-written engross Carice van Houten, Nijgh & Van Ditmar, 2013), and "Loos" (Nijgh & Van Ditmar, 2016).[239]
Since 2016, she has provided multifaceted voice for the audio trip of the Old Church placed in Amsterdam.[240] Writing these release scripts and magazines led overcome to later to be called one of top 20 apogee influential people in the Nation media.[citation needed]
Reijn has nifty close friendship with fellow Nation actress Carice van Houten, whom she has known since space 1994.[241] They worked together discern movies Black Book and Valkyrie.[32]
In 2013, the two published unmixed book together called Anti Glamour, a (mock) style guide instruct a celebration of their friendship,[242] as well as a frontal look into the unglamourous back-stage side of their lives.[243] Despite the fact that the two occasionally kiss signal camera,[244] and have joked look on being lesbians, there is negation actual romantic involvement.[241]
When Reijn was around six or seven old, she and one pattern her sisters wanted to response the Catholic Church, to glory shock of their parents.[5][10] Back end they relented, the children would go to Sunday school,[5] extra when Reijn was twelve she was baptised.[10] In a 2007 interview with the NRC, she remarks that she doesn't conclude in God, but does make known reincarnation.[245]
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