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 2
Suggested by phoenix88
PART 1: Cobra’s death causes major changes at the Court. Maria is looking for a suitable replacement, while inadvertently building herself a prison cell, and the Frenchman uses the opportunity to cause chaos. The church gets a new leader and the ringing of wedding bells signifies the arrival of a new king, but how good that is for the kingdom remains to be seen. Heather finds a friend in Fiona, while Warthorn is trying to figure out how to protect the inn and the squabbles within the King's guard become larger by the day. In the present, Professor Longfellow's plan starts coming together, as his henchmen kidnap Peter and Ox. PART 2: The rule of James Haywood quickly turns tyrannical and Heather starts concocting a plan with her allies in order to take him down, but it gets much harder when Scarpino kills Eric, taking his place as the captain of the King's guard, and allies with James, alongside Aspis and the Frenchman. Richard Longfellow is revealed to be Yakshashamu, a demon somehow simultaneously aware of his existence in both timelines, who is the mastermind behind the rift. The prequel aspect fully comes into focus as Warthorn's nephew, a humble Irish sailor arrives to the inn, and Yakshasha reveals the Frenchman's true purpose. Gerki, meanwhile, finally breaks his mental chains through the power of love.
