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
Madame Zostra
for Madame Zostra in Escargot - Season 1
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The fifth chapter of Ollyverse follows two timelines, serving as both a prequel, and a sequel to the first four chapters, with each season divided into two halves. The story focuses on Heather Granville, a young woman who ends up transported to the year 1556. (seemingly) via a faulty time machine created by her friend Peter. The present timeline focuses on Peter and Heather's boyfriend Ox trying to find a way to bring her back, while the past timeline focuses on Heather trying to navigate her new life in a small medieval town's castle named Cobra Court, ruled by King Cobra and Queen Maria. In season 1, Heather becomes an honorary guest of the queen, who believes her to be a sign of positive change. She makes friends with the court jester and the captain of the King's guard, who saves her life from a priest believing her to be a witch. This causes a rift in the timeline, while Peter and Ox slowly start realizing the real reason Heather ended up in the past. In the local inn, Heather connects with the feisty innkeeper Fiona and her boss Warthorn, while the King's spiteful right-hand man, Grand Vizier Aspis, makes a deal with a pirate in order to assassinate his master. The inn is visited by a pair of travelling merchants from across the sea, with some very sinister motives, as Heather meets a creepy fortune-teller and ends up saving the day, but at what cost?
