Gaite Jansen

Gaite Jansen was born on December 25, 1991 in  Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands, Netherlands, is Actress. Gaite Jansen (1991) is considered one of the most promising young talents of her acting generation. In 2008 she was awarded the Best Actress Award for Luwte at the 48 Hour Film Project in Amsterdam and she was recently nominated for the Golden Calf for Best Actress (170 HZ).Gaite was uniquely accepted by two drama academies in The Netherlands. She chose to go to the Maastricht Theatre Academy.She starred in such films as Lover Of Loser (director: Dave Schram), Coach (director: Joram Lürsen) and Singing In The Dark, together with Carice van Houten.In the summer of 2010 she stars as Sophie in the new TV series In Therapie, the Dutch version of the HBO series In Treatment.Gaite appears in the Dutch thriller DUSK (original title: Schemer), directed by Hanro Smitsman who won the Golden Berlin Bear for his short film Contact. The cast consists of promising young Dutch talents such as Robert de Hoog, Matthijs van de Sande Bakhuyzen and Melody Klaver. She can also be seen in The Entertainment Experience, a Dutch online project directed by Paul Verhoeven (Black Book).Supernova, in which she plays the lead role, screened in the Generations competition at Berlinale film festival 2014. She played the lead role in The Price of Sugar, the opening film of the Netherlands Film Festival in 2013. Gaite is making the leap to the global stage with her role on the third season of BBC's Peaky Blinders and Line of Duty.Apart from her TV and film work, Gaite worked with internationally renowned theatre directors such as Ivo van Hove and Simon Stone.
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