Jeroen Willems
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| Born |
Jeroen Willems 15 November 1962 Maastricht, Netherlands |
| Died | 3 December 2012 (aged 50) Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Occupation | Actor, singer |
| Years active | 1991–2012 |
| Partner(s) | Marcel Musters |
Jeroen Willems (Dutch pronunciation: [jəˈrun ˈʋɪləms]; 15 November 1962 – 3 December 2012) was a Dutch Golden Calf and Louis d'Or winning film, TV, and stage actor and singer.
Jeroen Willems was born on 15 November 1962 in Maastricht as the third child of a drama teacher and an elocutionist. Soon afterwards, the family moved to Heerlen. Willems' father died in 1978, age 52, when Jeroen was 15 years old. Willems attended the Maastricht Academy of Dramatic Arts.
Willems was attached to theatrical company Theatergroep Hollandia. He could be seen in La Musica (1991), the solo show Twee stemmen (from 1997 on) and La Musica Twee (2003). He also played with other companies, including Het Zuidelijk Toneel/Hollandia, het Nationale Toneel, and the Flemish company De Tijd. With Oostpool, he played in the musical stage production Brel, de zoete oorlog. In the show, he also sang a couple of songs of Jacques Brel, translated to Dutch. In April 2010 he had the leading role in a performance of Louis Andriessen's opera La Commedia at Carnegie Hall in New York.
He also could be seen in many film and television productions. In 1991, he played David Grobben in the TV series Bij nader inzien, based on the novel of J.J. Voskuil. Other TV series include Tijd van leven (1996), Wij, Alexander (1998), as Dutch cabaret star Wim Sonneveld in Bij ons in de Jordaan (2000), Bellicher (2010), and Lijn 32 (2012). In 2007, he had the leading role in Stellenbosch), a drama series about a South African wineyard at the end of the apartheid. In 2010, he played King William II in the AVRO TV series De Troon.
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