Manouk van der Meulen

manouk

After the theatre school Herman Teirlinck in Antwerp Manouk played in 1980 her first main part in the feature film Sprong naar de Liefde.. Other films like Boezemvriend and Moord in Ekstase followed quickly.

She worked in various theatre productions like Leocadia with Mary Dresselhys and Huub Stapel and De Vete directed by Bram Vermeulen.  Besides that Manouk was seen in many populair and commercial succesfull Tv productions like  Het Wassende Water, De Weereld, Rust Roest, Spijkerhoek, Vrouwenvleugel, Onderweg naar Mogen, Luifel en Luifel, De Erfenis en Baantjer


Manouk has been abroad for many years. She stayed from 1996 till 2001 in London where she acted in several films, TV productions and commercials. She was seen till example in ‘Touch of Frost’ and ‘Close Relations’ and ‘Drive’.
In the international film ‘The Shadowman’ she played the main part next to Tom Hulce and Jeroen Krabbe and was seen in 2001 in the feature Kingdom where she played Celine.
Manouk lived from 2004 till 2008 in Sweden where she followed an intensive acting training at Trappan. After that she played Tjechov and Strindberg on the Swedisch stage and played a modest part in the Swedish policeseries  Walllander

Next to her work as an actress Manouk developed also a passion for writing. In 1996 her novel Zingend Riet was published en she wrote travel articles for Viva en Nieuwe Revue  and other Dutch magazines.
In London she delivered weekly the column ‘London Calling ‘ for Het Algemeen Dagblad en Liefs uit London’ voor  Nouveau. Since 2009 she writes monthly the column ‘Hart en Ziel’ for Nouveau.
Since her return to Holland Manouk will be seen in the end of 2010 in the new NCRV TV series Levenslied  as Natalie Lopez