Acting
Ruan Wessels
Born
1997-08-26 (29)
Place of birth
South Africa
Known for
Acting
Credits
16 titles
Ruan Wessels grew in South Africa along side his sister. At the age of 13 he auditioned for Binnelanders and Hoofemeisie, not only has he become popular in movies he has become popular on Social Media with over 40 000 fans just on Instagram.
Known for
5.5A South African Afrikaans soap opera. It is set in and around the fictional private hospital, Binneland Kliniek, in Pretoria, and the storyline follows the trials, trauma and tribulations of the staff and patients of the hospital.
Binnelanders
2005
8.2A South African, Afrikaans-language telenovela which takes place in and around a competitive swimming club, Die Swartmarlyne.
Diepe Waters
2022
9.0An edgy, youthful and urban Afrikaans drama that follows four females as they navigate the complicated world of university life and how they walk the thin line between mischief and wrongdoing to survive.
Wyfie
2024
9.0A South African Afrikaans series about broken families and the lies and deceit within them and how sins committed to do good can come back to haunt families when they least expect it.
Erfsondes
2007
7.0Spoorloos is a South African crime drama anthology television series created by Ilse van Hemert and developed by Ochre Moving Pictures. The first season is based on the 2014 novel Daddy Long Legs by Vernon W. Baumann and set in the fictional town of Digtersdal in the Eastern Cape. Each subsequent season follows a new small town and cast of characters.
Spoorloos
2018
7.8Yvette has dreamed of performing Romeo and Juliet since starting high school. Now, in her final year, the headmaster has decided to use the school's entire arts and culture budget to fund a T20 event. In a last ditch effort to put on the play, they ask the school's cricket hero, Marko Marais, to play the role of Romeo.
Your Romeo
2016
Film credits
2020s · 3 titles
NRMatilda en Matthys is an off-beat romcom about a generation's fear of commitment and suspicion of romance, and how love always knows best, in the end.
Matilda and Matthys
2024
6.0POU is a South African gothic horror following the journey of a young woman into the dark recesses of the Afrikaner psyche and its compromised past.
Peacock
2023
NRIn the wak of a nuclear war, a young man believes himself to be last person left alive, until he meets a strange young mute woman with life-saving abilities.
The Forest
2024
2010s · 5 titles
7.8Yvette has dreamed of performing Romeo and Juliet since starting high school. Now, in her final year, the headmaster has decided to use the school's entire arts and culture budget to fund a T20 event. In a last ditch effort to put on the play, they ask the school's cricket hero, Marko Marais, to play the role of Romeo.
Your Romeo
2016
5.7A South African family comedy about three primary school girls and their obsessed mothers who share the same desire: for their girls to become Head Girl of their junior school. When things go badly for one of them, she becomes mean in her attempts to win, but after sacrificing the good qualities in her personality she finally learns what a true leader should be.
Hoofmeisie
2011
8.2Set in modern-day South Africa, it tells the story of Anna Bruwer, who avenges years of abuse suffered at the hands of her stepfather and the court case that ensues.
Dis ek, Anna
2015
NRThe Fouchés, an Afrikaans family, arrive at the ATKV Buffelspoort resort for the holidays, only to find that their regular caravan spot has been taken over by the Khumalos. Much hilarity ensues as the two families engage in madcap tit-for-tat exchanges and shenanigans. Meanwhile the owner of the site is hoping to gain an extra star on his rating, with inspections due shortly. The last thing he needs is the chaos of two families fighting
Camp Grounds
2017
6.0Walter du Toit is the secret agent known "Agent 2000". He is hired to find the bully terrorizing the school, known only as the Laksman (The Executioner). Before he unmask his foe he finds friendship and the girl of his dreams.
Agent 2000
2014
Undated · 2 titles
Seven years after a nuclear war decimated Earth, Heinrich is a wanderer who for the past four years thinks he's the last one left on the planet. He soon learns he's not when he meets Em, a young woman with a secret.
The Forest
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Just after the Anglo-Boer War, a dispute arises when Ester returns home from a concentration camp only to find that her cousin and her English-speaking husband have moved into Ester's house.
Niemandsland
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Series credits
5.5A South African Afrikaans soap opera. It is set in and around the fictional private hospital, Binneland Kliniek, in Pretoria, and the storyline follows the trials, trauma and tribulations of the staff and patients of the hospital.
Binnelanders
2005
8.2A South African, Afrikaans-language telenovela which takes place in and around a competitive swimming club, Die Swartmarlyne.
Diepe Waters
2022
9.0An edgy, youthful and urban Afrikaans drama that follows four females as they navigate the complicated world of university life and how they walk the thin line between mischief and wrongdoing to survive.
Wyfie
2024
9.0A South African Afrikaans series about broken families and the lies and deceit within them and how sins committed to do good can come back to haunt families when they least expect it.
Erfsondes
2007
7.0Spoorloos is a South African crime drama anthology television series created by Ilse van Hemert and developed by Ochre Moving Pictures. The first season is based on the 2014 novel Daddy Long Legs by Vernon W. Baumann and set in the fictional town of Digtersdal in the Eastern Cape. Each subsequent season follows a new small town and cast of characters.
Spoorloos
2018
4.0Ekstra Medium (Extra Medium) is a South African, Afrikaans-language comedy-drama television series about a man in his thirties who finds himself at a crossroads, which forces him to take stock of himself and his life.
Ekstra Medium
2020