Acting

Susan Coetzer

Place of birth

Cape Town, South Africa

Known for

Acting

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8 titles

Susan Coetzer was born on 25 August in Cape Town. She grew up in the surrounding regions, from the Swartland to the Cape West Coast to Mossel Bay and Port Elizabeth. When she was six years old, her parents divorced and she moved to Cape Town with her mother. After school, she followed a drama course and was involved as an actress in several important theatre and television productions, for which she received several Vita and Artes awards. She played, among others, in the performances of Diepe grond by Reza de Wet, Panorama by Pieter-Dirk Uys, Koopman van Venesië by Shakespeare (for which she was nominated for the Esther Roos Award for best actress in a supporting role in Afrikaans in 1991) a…

Known for

Binnelanders poster
5.5

A 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

7de Laan poster
8.3

7de Laan is an extraordinary microcosm where good and bad, evil and wholesome characters find themselves forming part of a wholesome community where no matter what – everyone counts and everyone cares…

7de Laan

2000

Hartklop poster
9.0

A group of brilliant newly graduated doctors are thrown together in the corridors of the Beyers Naudé Academic Hospital, where they perform miracles to save the lives of their patients - regardless of the cost to themselves.

Hartklop

2023

Daisy de Melker poster
9.0

The infamous poisoner, Daisy Louisa de Melker (née Hancorn-Smith) was born on 1 July 1886 near Grahamstown. Daisy was charged with the murder of her two previous husbands and her son. Her trial began in October 1932 before Judge Greenberg in Johannesburg. Daisy was not found guilty of the murder of her two previous husbands, but she was found guilty of the murder of her son. On 30 December 1932, Daisy was hanged in Pretoria Central Prison, without ever pleading guilty or showing any remorse. Daisy was the second woman in South Africa to be hanged.

Daisy de Melker

1993

Hole In The Wall poster
6.8

Diagnosed with colon cancer, a free-spirited embarks on a illuminating road trip with his son through South Africa

Hole In The Wall

2017

Kin poster
3.8

While on a hunt for elephant poachers in Namibia, a white female conservationist and a black lawyer fall for each other despite the condemnation by the local community.

Kin

2000

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