Age: 49
female
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. 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.
Carice van Houten
Talia Al Ghul
for Talia Al Ghul in Batman: Reborn (2017-2020)
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After the shocking death of Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson returns to Gotham to mourn and bury his estranged mentor. But when he arrives, he finds a city in chaos. A new vigilante - the Red Hood - is slaughtering any criminal he can find. A new and terrible enemy - Professor Pyg and the El Penitente Cartel - are moving into the vacuum. And most problematic of all - Talia Al Ghul, Heir of the Demon, arrives with an 11-year-old boy named Damian: son of the Batman. Talia claims that she had intended to turn Damian (who has spent his life living with the League of the Assassins, knowing nothing but violence and preparation for conquest) over to Bruce for training, but it is now Dick's responsibility to take up the mantle. Dick struggles with all these responsibilities, and with the fate he had always dreaded: does he take up the cowl? Must there always be a Batman in Gotham City?
