Karin Retief

Acting

Karin Retief

Known for

Acting

Credits

10 titles

Karin Retief (also known as Karin Fourie) is a South African actress best known for her role as Carina Human in the now-defunct TV1 television drama series Ballade Vir 'n Enkeling, from 1987-1993. She also played Mrs Wellington in the first season of the SABC1 drama series Tshisa, in 2006. Other television credits include the Jan Scholtz thriller Die Vierde Kabinet (1998), the kykNET / M-Net drama Song vir Katryn (2003) and the e.tv police procedural Jozi Streets, in 2004.

Known for

Villa Rosa poster
6.0

In Bloemfontein there is a guest house where the walls have ears and where there is daily drama, intrigue and also a lot of comedy.

Villa Rosa

2004

Reënboogrant poster
9.0

Buckle up for an exhilarating rollercoaster ride through the world of authentic teenage drama, family conflicts, love, aspirations and fierce rivalries. An adaption based on Louise van Niekerk's gripping coming-of-age book series.

Reënboogrant

2025

Song Vir Katryn poster
9.0

Song vir Katryn is a modern romantic drama about Jinx, an M.D. and musican, who falls in love with Katryn, a woman with a dark and mysterious past.

Song Vir Katryn

2003

Pronk Primêr poster
4.0

A comedy series about five school friends who are now teachers at the school where they not only went to school, but where the same principal from back then still wields the scepter.

Pronk Primêr

2024

Ballade Vir 'n enkeling poster
NR

Ballade Vir 'n Enkeling (Ballad for a Loner) is an Afrikaans language drama set in 1985 that centres around the search by a young journalist for her colleague and fellow journalist Jacques Rynhard following his sudden, mysterious disappearance. As the story begins Jacques has just been awarded the Basson Prize for his novel Die Enkeling, but he disappears before the announcement is made. Otto Beukes, the editor of the magazine Die Huisvriend, decides to follow up on the story and puts top journalist Carina Human on the story. In a quest to find out where Jacques has gone and why he's disappeared Human begins the search for him by locating to the people closest to him.

Ballade Vir 'n enkeling

1987

Hoofmeisie poster
5.7

A 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

Film credits

2010s · 2 titles

Series credits