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Willeke van Ammelrooy

{{Short description|Dutch actress (born 1944)}}

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{{Infobox person

| name = Willeke van Ammelrooy

|image = Willeke van Ammelrooy.png

| caption = Willeke van Ammelrooy in 1973

| birth_name = Willy Geertje van Ammelrooij

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1944|4|5|df=y}}

| birth_place = Amsterdam, Netherlands

| occupation = Actress, Director

| yearsactive = 1966–present

| website = [http://www.willekevanammelrooy.nl/#/home Official website]

}}

Willy Geertje van Ammelrooij (born 5 April 1944), known as Willeke van Ammelrooy, is a Dutch actress.

Life and career

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Willeke van Ammelrooy was born in Amsterdam, where she also attended drama school. She has acted on stage as well as in films. She participated in 27 movies. Her first film was Mira in 1971.

= Success with ''Antonia's Line'' =

She later starred in the award-winning feminist film Antonia's Line, which tells the story of an independent woman who, after returning to the anonymous Dutch village of her birth, establishes and nurtures a close-knit matriarchal community.

She received positive reviews and the Golden Calf for Best Actress for her performance and the film enjoyed critical success, including the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 68th Academy Awards. Emanuel Levy, writing for The Advocate, wrote "It's easy to see why" the film was winning awards in festivals, calling it "an enchanting fairy tale that maintains a consistently warm, lighthearted feel," and Willeke van Ammelrooy wonderful.{{cite magazine |first=Emanuel |last=Levy |author-link=Emanuel Levy |title=A fairy tale |magazine=The Advocate |date=1996-03-05 |issue=702 |pages=64–65 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W2MEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA64 |url-access=limited}} Janet Maslin of The New York Times called it "a work of magical feminism."{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/02/02/movies/film-review-a-line-of-strong-women-with-faith-in-destiny.html |title=A Line of Strong Women With Faith in Destiny |last=Maslin |first=Janet |author-link=Janet Maslin |date=1996-02-02 |access-date=2016-09-04 |work=The New York Times |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150526155701/https://www.nytimes.com/1996/02/02/movies/film-review-a-line-of-strong-women-with-faith-in-destiny.html |archive-date=2015-05-26 |url-status=live}} The film also screened at the Toronto International Film Festival, where it won the People's Choice Award.{{cite news |url=https://www.sfgate.com/movies/article/FILM-REVIEW-Antonia-s-Tangled-Line-A-2994615.php |title='Antonia's' Tangled Line: A woman's world in doctrinaire Oscar-nominated Dutch film |last=Guthmann |first=Edward |date=1996-02-14 |access-date=2013-01-20 |work=San Francisco Chronicle |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140416182508/https://www.sfgate.com/movies/article/FILM-REVIEW-Antonia-s-Tangled-Line-A-2994615.php |archive-date=2014-04-16 |url-status=live}}

According to Box Office Mojo, the film completed its run grossing $4,228,275 in North America, 1,660,901 admissions in the European Union, and $21,046 in South Korea.{{cite Box Office Mojo |id=antoniasline |title=Antonia's Line |access-date=2016-09-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041216183442/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=main&id=antoniasline.htm |archive-date=2004-12-16 |url-status=dead}}

= Other work =

In 2017, van Ammelrooy was announced as a member of the film jury for ShortCutz Amsterdam,{{cite web |url=http://www.shortcutzamsterdam.com/press-5th-shortcutz-amsterdam-annual-awards/ |title=5th ShortCutz Amsterdam Annual Awards |website=ShortCutz Amsterdam |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180506103840/https://www.shortcutzamsterdam.com/press-5th-shortcutz-amsterdam-annual-awards/ |archive-date=2018-05-06 |url-status=dead}} an annual film festival promoting short films in Amsterdam.{{cite magazine |url=https://www.prweb.com/releases/dutch_short_films_are_the_focus_shortcutz_amsterdam/prweb11717312.htm |title=Dutch Short Films Are the Focus{{snd}}Shortcutz Amsterdam |website=PRWeb |access-date=2014-04-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141025205718/https://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/03/prweb11717312.htm |archive-date=2014-10-25 |url-status=live}}

Personal life

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Van Ammelrooy is married to the Dutch opera singer {{ill|Marco Bakker|nl}}.

Filmography

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= Television =

  • {{ill|Het Glazen Huis|nl|Het Glazen Huis (soapserie)}} (2004–2005)

References

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External links

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{{Golden Calf for Best Actress}}

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Category:1944 births

Category:Living people

Category:Dutch expatriate actresses in the United States

Category:Dutch film actresses

Category:Dutch television actresses

Category:Actresses from Amsterdam

Category:Golden Calf winners

Category:20th-century Dutch actresses

Category:21st-century Dutch actresses