Betty Schuurman

Acting

Betty Schuurman

Born

1962-10-31 (63)

Place of birth

Edam, Netherlands

Known for

Acting

Credits

34 titles

Betty Schuurman (born October 31, 1962, in Edam, Netherlands) is a Dutch actress known for her work in film, television, and theatre. She has appeared in more than forty films since the early 1990s, including Character (1997), which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Since 2009, she has been a regular member of the Dutch National Theatre, while continuing to work in television series and feature films.

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 4 titles

2000s · 13 titles

Where Is Winky's Horse? poster
6.7

In the sequel to "Winky's Horse", 8-year old Winky looks after the horse of St Nicholas. Then one day the horse runs away.

Where Is Winky's Horse?

2007

Winky's Horse poster
6.7

There is only one thing Winky wants: a horse, a real horse to ride. But horses are expensive. Fortunately it is the season of Sinterklaas; Winky just asks Sinterklaas for a horse. Than everything will work out alright. Or will it?

Winky's Horse

2005

Twin Sisters poster
6.8

1920s Germany. Two sisters aged six years, no sooner see their remaining parent buried when they are torn apart. Lotte goes to live with her upper middle class Dutch aunt in Holland, Anna to work as a farm hand on her German uncle's rural farm. The World War II impacts each of their lives and finally in old age they meet again.

Twin Sisters

2002

Brush with Fate poster
6.0

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

Brush with Fate

2003

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

Wolfsbergen poster
5.0

Konraad, 83, has written a letter to his relatives saying he wants to die. Maria, Konraad's daughter and only child, refuses to discuss her fathers wish. Instead, she wants to move him to a flat for elderly people. Her two grown daughters Sabine and Eva have problems of their own. Sabine has a troubled marriage and her eldest daughter Haas is too wise for her age. Eva is in therapy, recovering from an abortion. Ernst, Marias husband, is the only one who takes an interest. He decides to help Konraad realize his last wish. In doing so, he crosses his wife and increases the already existing distance between them.

Wolfsbergen

2007

Blind poster
5.9

Ruben is a lone and unbalanced young man who lost his sight in childhood. Marie is an albino woman of temperate look and with a lot of insecurities. She has a beautiful voice and, along with Ruben, shares a mutual love for books and tales. Ruben's mother hires her as a reader to read her son books orally. While they live in a mansion, between these two lonely souls sparks love, but will love still be blind if the man recovers from his blindness?

Blind

2007

Het Mysterie van de Sardine poster
4.0

Tim Boerhave, a philosophy lecturer, loses his legs in a bomb attack. Who is responsible? The last image before the explosion is that of a large black dog with a sardine tin attached to its collar, jumping up against the kitchen door. For Tim, the question of who did it is less urgent than the question of why. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack. He can't think of any reason why he was targeted. While his house is being rebuilt, he and his family retreat to a quiet family hotel to recover. Day and night, he locks himself in his hotel room. He is obsessed with mapping out what preceded the explosion on that fateful morning. Who is the perpetrator? Why is Tim the victim?

Het Mysterie van de Sardine

2005

Taartman poster
5.0

Pastry chef Ben van Bommel runs a hitherto successful bakery, but lately run into trouble with the tax service. In order to save his business, he succumbs to criminal temptation. So he's persuaded to bake a cake with a valuable 'secret ingredient': smuggled drugs. Nobody could have foreseen the wide ramifications, such as who ends up saving Ben's bacon.

Taartman

2009

Blood Brothers poster
5.5

Two wealthy young brothers living on a plush estate give refuge to a petty criminal who is on the run from the police. Neither the boys' parents or their staff know about the fugitive's presence, which leads them open to exploitation. Sure enough, they soon discover the fugitive has no intention of leaving.

Blood Brothers

2008

Broken Red poster
9.0

What happens if you take the law into your own hands, start correcting the legal system on your own initiative? Hans Croiset, André van den Heuvel, Bram van der Vlugt and Kitty Courbois in their roles of aged resistance heroes do not think this is such a bad idea; in fact, it is what they already did during World War II. Back then, they formed a sworn resistance gang. The occasion for their renewed fighting spirit is the brutal robbery and murder of Marjan, one of the members of their former group. Past and present start blending. In a controlled tempo, alert to detail and acting, a story unravels that focuses on Hans Croiset in the role of Simon, a retired teacher of Dutch. He makes contact with the underworld, meeting the Slavic Goran, who starts feeling sympathy for the old man. Eventually, fate lies in Simon's hands.

Broken Red

2005

Nuisance poster
NR

The protagonist in the film is an actor (René van het Hof) who is acting his life. He is a nuisance, but only for those who have had enough of his play acting or who are ashamed to be around this clown. His wife breaks up with him because she just can't tolerate the man any more and he seems to accept that in an apparently matter-of-fact way. He leaves the city for a cottage in the countryside.

Nuisance

2001

No artwork available
9.0

An almost bankrupt pig farmer is blackmailed by a shady trader who supplies him with contaminated pig feed and starts carrying on with his wife. Then, swine fever breaks out on the farm. In the hope that the outbreak will go by unnoticed, the farmer buries his dead pigs on a corner of his farmland. The trader catches him in the act.

Adriaans plaag

2001

Series credits

Baantjer poster
6.9

Baantjer is a Dutch television programme which was broadcast by RTL 4 from 6 October 1995 until 1 December 2006 for a total of 123 episodes in 12 seasons. It stars Piet Römer as Jurriaan 'Jurre' de Cock, a police detective, and Victor Reinier as Dick Vledder, his helper. The series is based on the novels of writer A. C. Baantjer. In 1999, RTL 4 broadcast the television film Baantjer, de film: De Cock en de wraak zonder einde because of the tenth anniversary of the network.

Baantjer

1995

Baantjer poster
6.9

Baantjer is a Dutch television programme which was broadcast by RTL 4 from 6 October 1995 until 1 December 2006 for a total of 123 episodes in 12 seasons. It stars Piet Römer as Jurriaan 'Jurre' de Cock, a police detective, and Victor Reinier as Dick Vledder, his helper. The series is based on the novels of writer A. C. Baantjer. In 1999, RTL 4 broadcast the television film Baantjer, de film: De Cock en de wraak zonder einde because of the tenth anniversary of the network.

Baantjer

1995

No artwork available
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

12 steden, 13 ongelukken

1990

No artwork available
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

12 steden, 13 ongelukken

1990

Moordvrouw poster
5.2

No synopsis available yet.

Moordvrouw

2012

Keyzer & De Boer Advocaten poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Keyzer & De Boer Advocaten

2005

Danni Lowinski poster
7.2

Danni Lowinski is a hairdresser in need of money who decides to become a lawyer.

Danni Lowinski

2013

Nieuw Zeer poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Nieuw Zeer

2020

The Van Gogh Legacy poster
NR

The Duch painter Vincent Van Gogh grew up in the family of a stern Calvinist country pastor, feeling a misunderstood misfit, obsessed by painting, while his elder brother Theo left for Brussels, later Paris, and became an art dealer. Vincent tried an alternative career as missionary to the Catlolic Walloon mineworkers in the Ardennes but returns, broke and failed again. Later he'll move in with Theo in Paris, but can't fit in business or society. Vincent heads for frustration and health drama. His heir, a Dutch railway engineer, later visits those places while deciding whether to sell the family paintings collection to invest in the super-fast railroad.

The Van Gogh Legacy

2013

Morten poster
6.0

Morten is well on his way to becoming Prime Minister, but when a secret from his past threatens to damage his reputation, he must go to great lengths to avert the disaster.

Morten

2019

CAST poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

CAST

2023

Het jaar van Fortuyn poster
7.9

A chronicle of the tempestuous campaign trail rivalry between Labour Party leader Ad Melkert and flamboyant newcomer Pim Fortuyn, as they go head-to-head leading up to the Netherlands’ 2002 general elections.

Het jaar van Fortuyn

2022

Annie MG poster
7.5

Recounts the life of prolific Dutch children's author and musical playwright Annie MG Schmidt.

Annie MG

2010