Katja Herbers

Acting

Katja Herbers

Born 1980-10-19 · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands

Katja Herbers is a Dutch stage, film and television actress, best known for playing Dr. Helen Prins on the television series "Manhattan". She's a graduate in Drama from the department of Theatre and Dance at the Amsterdam University of the Arts, Netherlands.

Acting credits

Süskind poster
7.0

In Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, Walter Süskind is a member of the Dutch Jewish Council who rescues hundreds of children from the concentration camps.

Süskind

2012

Loft poster
6.2

Five best friends, all married, decide to share a loft apartment. In this loft they meet their mistresses and conquests. Everything seems perfect, until one morning the body of an unknown young woman is found in the loft. The group of friends begin to suspect each other and it soon becomes clear that they know far less about each other than they had initially thought.

Loft

2010

Bijlmer Odyssey poster
7.3

Bijlmer Odyssey is a romantic comedy about two young lovers who were made for each other. Lost and separated from each other in a labyrinth of high-rise flats, they become entangled in comical adventures and meet colourful locals who ultimately help them find each other again. With a nod to the classical Odyssey of Homer, this heart-warming, big-city comedy of errors provides an unusual and enchanting view of the Bijlmer, a low-income estate district on the outskirts of Amsterdam.

Bijlmer Odyssey

2004

The Pool poster
4.7

Two families go camping illegally in a forest, and set up their tents near a beautiful pond, far away from the daily hubbub. However, they soon discover that the pond contains a mysterious force, which will not allow them to leave. Rot and decay strike, and madness follows.

The Pool

2014

Brush with Fate poster
6.0

A mystery hidden for generations. Now the truth will finally be revealed.

Brush with Fate

2003

Peter Bell poster
5.6

Peter is a cheerful -- but not very obedient -- boy from a very ordinary family in pre-war Rotterdam. His many pranks amuse some and cause a lot of trouble to others, even making the front pages of the big city newspapers. His growing popularity brings him many new friends, but also some very powerful enemies.

Peter Bell

2002

Sonny Boy poster
6.5

Waldemar Nods, a young man from Suriname, meets the older Dutch woman Rika van der Lans and they fall in love. In pre-WWII Netherlands they could not be more different. The one black, the other white, 17 years between them and on top of that Rika already has four children with another man. They love each other, but then Rika appears to be pregnant.

Sonny Boy

2011

Love Over Distance poster
5.5

A successful, city-based construction manager finds herself reconsidering her cosmopolitan life choices when her employer relocates her to a folksy seaside town.

Love Over Distance

2017

Fidgety Bram poster
6.9

Fidgety Bram (seven years old) thinks a lot about the world around him. He is very much looking forward to enter the first grade. But then he ends up in the class of the strict teacher Mr. Fish. The straightfoward Mr. Fish doesn’t care about the inside world of the constantly moving around and unconcentrated little boy and does whatever it takes to make Bram do things the ‘right’ way.

Fidgety Bram

2012

No artwork available
5.0

In a flashback, the film follows the life of Martin Hogeveen. He leads a life that leaves nothing to be desired: a luxurious apartment, a beautiful young girlfriend and a successful job as an independent municipal policy advisor, whose secondary task it is to combat fraud. His investigations are amply rewarded when he brings to light an extensive building industry fraud. As a result of his report, the director of the local authority is fired and Hogeveen takes over his post. In the meantime, Martin is stalked in his private life by an impetuous student who even harasses his girlfriend. Martin gets entangled in a situation involving murder and blackmail, and eventually makes an unexpected discovery. Zinloos is based on René Appel's novel Zinloos geweld.

Zinloos

2004

The Columnist poster
5.6

An opinion columnist and author, subjected to constant misogynistic abuse on social media, snaps and goes on a killing spree against her online abusers.

The Columnist

2019

Men in the City poster
5.4

Following the love lives of different types of men in Amsterdam.

Men in the City

2013

The Storm poster
6.6

A fictional story within the historical context of the disastrous flood that engulfed the Dutch coastal province of Zeeland in 1953. When their farmhouse is destroyed by the flood, teenage mother Julia gets separated from her baby boy, whom she kept hidden in a box. She is saved from drowning by a young air force lieutenant, who agrees to go help looking for Julia's little son.

The Storm

2009

De onderkoning: strijd om de grondwet poster
NR

A dramatic documentary about how the Netherlands got its first constitution.

De onderkoning: strijd om de grondwet

2014

Amsterdam poster
3.9

A rich American couple, a family of Dutch criminals, a French gay couple, a working class family from Germany and an illegal Moroccan youth and his kid brother, are all in Amsterdam, each with their own story. Different reasons make their paths intertwine, leading to a dramatic climax that changes their lives for ever.

Amsterdam

2009

Upload poster
5.0

What if our minds could live forever? In this opera, we can. Nationale Opera & Ballet’s “Upload,” tells the story of a father, who suffers a severe trauma, his decision to upload his consciousness, and the effect this has on his daughter. Technology isn’t always what it seems, and he leaves his daughter with an impossible choice...

Upload

2021

Men in the City 2 poster
5.2

A lot has changed in the lives of our men, but in the sequel to Men in the City, finding their true love turns out to be everything but a fairytale. So the search continues in full swing.

Men in the City 2

2015

Peter Bell II: The Hunt for the Czar Crown poster
5.2

Peter Bell and his Black Hand gang tangle with evil newspaper tycoon Stark once again, as the latter schemes to steal a priceless royal crown with his two cronies.

Peter Bell II: The Hunt for the Czar Crown

2003

Drawn Out Love poster
4.8

Felix has been raised by his grandmother and has never met his father. His father Johan, doesn't even know he exists. Felix decides to become a regular in his father's bar in Amsterdam to secretly learn more about the man he has never known.

Drawn Out Love

2007

Timboektoe poster
5.9

Isa and her older brother Kars' parents change course and start a campsite in France. Isa and Kars feel like they are moving to Timbuktu and losing everything. Fortunately, they don't complain for long, because they soon make new friends. But while new friendships blossom, Camping Timbuktu runs into trouble. Not far from them, another campsite has opened, and its unsympathetic owner tries to damage Camping Timbuktu in every way possible. It even looks like the campsite will have to close... Will Isa and Kars manage to keep Timbuktu open?

Timboektoe

2007

The Chosen One poster
6.4

The two brothers Van der Laan, of strict religion, have been running Holland's most successful software company for 10 years when suddenly their financial manager leaves the firm. The lives of the brothers and their families get turned upside down when they hire a young hot shot financial specialist, in order to pursue their goal to bring the company to the NASDAQ.

The Chosen One

2006

No artwork available
8.5

Erasmus compiled a few thousand Adagia, each exemplifies the classical truths that are our timeless and everyday wisdom. Life is Beautiful shows us just how wondrous life really is, by reflecting, quietly manipulating and exposing every day moments and scenes in 30 short stories.

Life is Beautiful

2009

De kroon poster
9.0

Political drama follows the alleged events leading up to the wedding of Willem-Alexander and Máxima, in which Max van der Stoel must force father Zorreguieta not to attend the wedding.

De kroon

2004

Young Kees poster
8.0

Little boy Kees is based on the famous classical masterpiece by Theo Thijssen and deals with a twelve year old Amsterdam schoolboy who grows up at the end of the 19th century in the Jordaan (part of Amsterdam. Kees Bakels is a dreamer who seeks refuge from reality with wild imagination where he dares more than in real life. Through his fathers illness and his young love for Rosa Overbeek he develops himself as someone who acts and assumes responsibility.

Young Kees

2003