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Halina Reijn

  • Actress
  • Writer
  • Producer
IMDbProStarmeterTop 5,000754
Halina Reijn
In this extended interview, stars Amandla Stenberg, Maria Bakalova, Myha'la Herrold, Rachel Sennott, Chase Sui Wonders, and director Halina Reijn share the most frightening moment they had on set, an early '00s song that brought them all together, and much more.
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Halina Reijn is a renowned director, actress, author and producer. She is the winner of multiple awards, including the Dutch film Award, the Golden Calf for Best Actress , the Dutch theater awards Theo D'Or and Colombina, as well as the Courbois pearl, an oeuvre award which honours an actress who has made an indelible impression, both on stage as in film and television. Since 2017 she is also the proud owner of the Theo Mann-Bouwmeester Ring, an award to honour an actress who has contributed greatly to the Dutch theatre.

Her critically acclaimed directorial feature film debut INSTINCT (2019), starring Carice van Houten (GAME OF THRONES) and Marwan Kenzari (ALADDIN) has been selected for film festivals in Locarno (winner Variety Piazza Grande Award and special mention First Feature Competition), Toronto (world cinema competition), BFI Londen (Sutherland competition), Gent and Chicago, and is the foreign language Oscar submission of The Netherlands. INSTINCT is the first outing for Man Up, the production banner of Halina and Carice. MAN UP's goal is to create films and television drama with high current value and relevance, told from a female perspective. To explore darker, edgy stories that, through shame or fear, often remain untold. Quality, artistic integrity and openness to their audiences defines the productions of MAN UP.

Halina was professionally trained at the Maastricht Academy of Dramatic Arts and in 1997 debuted on stage as Ophelia in Hamlet, directed by Theu Boermans. She continued to act on stage in such productions as Shopping & Fucking, Three Sisters, Mourning Becomes Electra, Hedda Gabler, La Voix Humaine, The Fountainhead and recently Obsession, opposite Jude Law. Halina works with internationally acclaimed director Ivo van Hove at the International Theatre Amsterdam, performing their plays all over the world. She starred in the Oscar nominated film ZUS & ZO, in Paul Verhoeven's critically acclaimed BLACK BOOK and in Bryan Singer's VALKYRIE, opposite Tom Cruise. She can also be seen in the Swedish series CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE, directed by Charlotte Brändström.

In 2005, her first novel Prinsesje Nooitgenoeg (Prometheus) debuted, followed by Halina: doen alsof ik iemand anders ben (Prometheus, 2009), Antiglamour (co-written with Carice van Houten, Nijgh & Van Ditmar, 2013), and Loos (Nijgh & Van Ditmar, 2016). She is working on film scripts and television series based on original ideas. In 2019, Halina was named one of 20 most influential people in the Dutch media by a leading Dutch newspaper. She writes columns for Dutch and Belgian magazines and newspapers and is regularly a co-host on one of the best watched daily news shows on Dutch TV.
BornNovember 10, 1975
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BornNovember 10, 1975
IMDbProStarmeterTop 5,000754
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    • Awards
      • 11 wins & 17 nominations total

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    Known for

    Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson in Babygirl (2024)
    Babygirl
    5.9
    • Writer
    • 2024
    Carice van Houten and Marwan Kenzari in Instinct (2019)
    Instinct
    6.0
    • Writer
    • 2019
    Carice van Houten, Halina Reijn, and Maaike Neuville in Red Light (2020)
    Red Light
    7.1
    TV Series
    • Esther Vinkel
    Pete Davidson, Lee Pace, Chase Sui Wonders, Amandla Stenberg, Rachel Sennott, Maria Bakalova, and Myha'la in Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022)
    Bodies Bodies Bodies
    6.2
    • Director(directed by)
    • 2022

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    Actress



    • For the Birds
      3.8
      Short
      • 2021
    • Carice van Houten, Halina Reijn, and Maaike Neuville in Red Light (2020)
      Red Light
      7.1
      TV Series
      • Esther Vinkel
      • 2020–2021
    • Grimm re-edit (2019)
      Grimm re-edit
      6.5
      • Marie
      • 2019
    • Conspiracy of Silence (2018)
      Conspiracy of Silence
      6.6
      TV Series
      • Maggie Van Haal
      • Maggie van Haal
      • 2018
    • Gene Bervoets and Beppie Melissen in Love Revisited (2017)
      Love Revisited
      6.2
      • Tess
      • 2017
    • Jude Law in National Theatre Live: Obsession (2017)
      National Theatre Live: Obsession
      6.5
      Video
      • 2017
    • De zevende hemel (2016)
      De zevende hemel
      6.6
      • Eva
      • 2016
    • Halina Reijn in De leerling (2015)
      De leerling
      5.5
      TV Movie
      • Lana
      • Teacher
      • 2015
    • Egbert Jan Weeber and Bracha van Doesburgh in Bagels & bubbels (2015)
      Bagels & bubbels
      7.4
      TV Series
      • Vanessa Kremer
      • 2015
    • Nature Is Speaking (2014)
      Nature Is Speaking
      8.3
      TV Series
      • Moeder Natuur (Mother Nature) (voice)
      • 2015
    • Boy 7 (2015)
      Boy 7
      5.8
      • Marit
      • 2015
    • Benja Bruijning, Fedja van Huêt, Beppie Melissen, Halina Reijn, Frank Sheppard, Bram van der Vlugt, Chantal Janzen, Leo Alkemade, Manuel Broekman, Loes Haverkort, Marwan Kenzari, and Nathan Meeter in Pak van mijn hart (2014)
      Pak van mijn hart
      5.6
      • Karin
      • 2014
    • Tour de Force (2014)
      Tour de Force
      7.2
      • Kassiererin
      • 2014
    • Thomas Acda, Jelka van Houten, Peter Heerschop, Rosa Reuten, and Ellen Parren in Jeuk (2014)
      Jeuk
      7.8
      TV Series
      • Halina
      • 2014
    • Halina Reijn in Charlie (2013)
      Charlie
      6.9
      TV Series
      • Charlie Bloem
      • 2013

    Writer



    • Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson in Babygirl (2024)
      Babygirl
      5.9
      • written by
      • 2024
    • Carice van Houten, Halina Reijn, and Maaike Neuville in Red Light (2020)
      Red Light
      7.1
      TV Series
      • creator
      • written by
      • 2020–2021
    • Carice van Houten and Marwan Kenzari in Instinct (2019)
      Instinct
      6.0
      • idea
      • 2019

    Producer



    • Lois & Varga
      • executive producer
      • Pre-production
      • TV Series



    • Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson in Babygirl (2024)
      Babygirl
      5.9
      • producer
      • 2024
    • Carice van Houten, Halina Reijn, and Maaike Neuville in Red Light (2020)
      Red Light
      7.1
      TV Series
      • creative producer
      • producer
      • 2020–2021
    • Carice van Houten and Marwan Kenzari in Instinct (2019)
      Instinct
      6.0
      • producer
      • 2019

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    Why Nicole Kidman Has Been Craving an Experience Like 'Babygirl'
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    Why Nicole Kidman Has Been Craving an Experience Like 'Babygirl'
    'Bodies Bodies Bodies' Cast and Director Answer Burning Questions [Extended Cut]
    Interview 7:34
    'Bodies Bodies Bodies' Cast and Director Answer Burning Questions [Extended Cut]
    'Bodies Bodies Bodies' Cast and Director Answer Burning Questions [Extended Cut]
    Interview 7:34
    'Bodies Bodies Bodies' Cast and Director Answer Burning Questions [Extended Cut]
    'Bodies Bodies Bodies' Cast and Director Answer Burning Questions
    Interview 3:38
    'Bodies Bodies Bodies' Cast and Director Answer Burning Questions
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    Black Book
    Trailer 1:54
    Black Book

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    • Alternative name
      • Halina Rijn
    • Height
      • 5′ 8½″ (1.74 m)
    • Born
      • November 10, 1975
      • Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
    • Other works
      played Lulu in Frank Wedekind's "Lulu", by De Theatercompagnie (Amsterdam).
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      • 1 Interview
      • 1 Article
      • 3 Pictorials
      • 1 Magazine Cover Photo

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      Starred in a 12-minute pilot of a film titled "Theresa Immaculata", directed by Ramón Gieling in 2011, co-starring opposite Sylvia Hoeks and Matthias Schoenaerts (her co-star in Black Book (2006) and Nadine (2007)). The film was never made but a 7-minute video of the pilot can be found on Youtube.

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