Gaite Jansen

Gaite Sara Kim Jansen (born 25 December 1991) is a Dutch actress, singer, writer and director born in Rotterdam. Jansen was brought up in a family with filming background, which, influenced her to pursue acting as a career. Jansen was also awarded, at the age of 12, with the Best Actress Award at the 48 Hours Film Project.

Life and career

Jansen received her professional training at the Maastricht Academy of Dramatic Arts.

At age 12, she was awarded the Best Actress Award at the 48 Hour Film Project in Amsterdam for her role in Luwte. Her performance as a troubled deaf teenager in the acclaimed arthouse film "170 Hz" (2011) earned her nominations for Best Actress at the Seattle Film Festival and the Netherlands Film Festival. The film Supernova, in which she plays the lead role, was selected for the Generations competition at Berlinale film festival 2014.

In 2014, Jansen made her stage debut at the prestigious Amsterdam Theatre Group, as Ophelia in Hamlet vs. Hamlet, directed by Guy Cassiers and played in Medea later that year.

In 2015, Jansen appeared as the lead role in the film Greenland. She played a suicidal girl in In Therapie, the Dutch version of BeTipul in 2010. She was nominated "best actress" at the Gouden Kalf awards in 2012 for her role in 170 Hz, where she played a deaf girl and conversed mostly in Dutch Sign Language.

Jansen also plays the role of Grand Duchess Tatiana Petrovna in the third season of the BBC gangster drama Peaky Blinders. In 2017, she appeared as Hana Raznikova in Line of Duty. She plays Phoenix in the Cinemax TV series Jett.

Filmography

Film

Television

External links

• at IMDb