Karen Wessels

Acting

Karen Wessels

Known for

Acting

Credits

13 titles

Karen Wessels is a South African actress and singer best known for her television roles in Willie Esterhuizen's Hester en Ester Bester, and in Casper de Vries’ comedy series Haak en Steek and the Casper Rasper Show.

Known for

Donkerland poster
5.0

The story is set in the mountains of Kwazulu-Natal on the farm Donkerland. It follows the lives and times of seven generations of the De Witt family, from the Groot Trek in 1838 until 1996.

Donkerland

2013

Proesstraat poster
9.0

Proesstraat is an Afrikaans Television-Show which airs on kykNet based on the German improvisational comedy show Schillerstrasse. It is recorded without a script, in front of a live audience and broadcast unedited to a large extent.

Proesstraat

2010

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

Vlug Na Egipte poster
9.5

The fact that they are living in the house belonging to the Master - may rest in peace - some residents of Breipaal raise the armor, make others uncomfortable and then there are those who predict that nothing can be done here Not especially after the murder of one of the residents. When Master appeared in the Haasbroek daughter inexplicably one night, things began to take a path that nobody could provide. All four tensions sometimes high and sometimes they sometimes make them sleepy, all at 'The Paal' - Brown and White, Incommers and old residents - are just people who have to overcome many obstacles in order to realize their dreams and ideals and to fear their fears overcome.

Vlug Na Egipte

2015

Die Munisipaliteit van Gwarra-Gwarra poster
6.0

The Municipality of Gwarra-Gwarra is a situation comedy that takes place in the municipality of Gwarra-Gwarra's offices. This kykNET sitcom is a Willie Esterhuizen series, with, among others, Frank Opperman and Lizz Meiring.

Die Munisipaliteit van Gwarra-Gwarra

2014

Fluiters poster
5.0

Fluiters (Whistleblowers) is a South African conspiracy thriller television series created by Deon Opperman which begins when a successful IT company gets sunk by a corrupt government official and hits back by creating a SecureDrop-style website where whistleblowers can leak evidence on corruption without fear of being exposed.

Fluiters

2016

Film credits

2010s · 4 titles

Molly & Wors The Movie poster
6.0

Based on the Afrikaans TV series by the same name, this comedy comes to the big screen. The plot-line is rather convoluted as befits a farce, and sees the main characters get themselves into serious troubles before everything works out like it is supposed to.

Molly & Wors The Movie

2013

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

Wolwedans In Die Skemer poster
6.3

A young woman, Sonja Daneel, crashes her car near the spectacular Hotel Njala in Hazyview and loses her memory. Upon her arrival at the hotel, she gets involved with an obsessed family whose lives are controlled by this spooky, eerie hotel. She also quickly discovers that family secrets and an obsession with the past haunt and control their every move. Sonja soon falls in love with the enigmatic Ryno Lategan, a tour guide who befriends her and promises to help her regain her memory. But when a vicious axe murderer starts terrorising Sonja, she realizes that she has some strange connection to this hotel in her past and that this connection could cost her her life. Things change when an eccentric investigator, Lieutenant Conrad Nolte and his assistant, Sergeant Berta van Schalkwyk, start investigating the murders at Hotel Njala and make some startling discoveries that even shock these two hardened investigators.

Wolwedans In Die Skemer

2012

Agent 2000 poster
6.0

Walter 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

Series credits

Donkerland poster
5.0

The story is set in the mountains of Kwazulu-Natal on the farm Donkerland. It follows the lives and times of seven generations of the De Witt family, from the Groot Trek in 1838 until 1996.

Donkerland

2013

Proesstraat poster
9.0

Proesstraat is an Afrikaans Television-Show which airs on kykNet based on the German improvisational comedy show Schillerstrasse. It is recorded without a script, in front of a live audience and broadcast unedited to a large extent.

Proesstraat

2010

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

Vlug Na Egipte poster
9.5

The fact that they are living in the house belonging to the Master - may rest in peace - some residents of Breipaal raise the armor, make others uncomfortable and then there are those who predict that nothing can be done here Not especially after the murder of one of the residents. When Master appeared in the Haasbroek daughter inexplicably one night, things began to take a path that nobody could provide. All four tensions sometimes high and sometimes they sometimes make them sleepy, all at 'The Paal' - Brown and White, Incommers and old residents - are just people who have to overcome many obstacles in order to realize their dreams and ideals and to fear their fears overcome.

Vlug Na Egipte

2015

Die Munisipaliteit van Gwarra-Gwarra poster
6.0

The Municipality of Gwarra-Gwarra is a situation comedy that takes place in the municipality of Gwarra-Gwarra's offices. This kykNET sitcom is a Willie Esterhuizen series, with, among others, Frank Opperman and Lizz Meiring.

Die Munisipaliteit van Gwarra-Gwarra

2014

Fluiters poster
5.0

Fluiters (Whistleblowers) is a South African conspiracy thriller television series created by Deon Opperman which begins when a successful IT company gets sunk by a corrupt government official and hits back by creating a SecureDrop-style website where whistleblowers can leak evidence on corruption without fear of being exposed.

Fluiters

2016

Begeertes poster
7.0

An Afrikaans series about the love intrigues and life dramas of a group of people in East London.

Begeertes

2006

Hester & Ester Bester poster
9.0

A South African, Afrikaans-language television sitcom which tells the story of two sisters from Bloemfontein who move in with their aunt Bessie and - together with their friend Trompie - cause chaos for no good reason.

Hester & Ester Bester

2007