Ellen ten Damme

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Ellen ten Damme (2012)

Ellen ten Damme (born October 7, 1967 in Warnsveld ) is a Dutch actress , musician and singer .

Life

Ellen ten Damme grew up in Roden , a municipality in the province of Drenthe . She attended the Atheneum, studied Dutch literature for a few years at the University of Groningen and finally graduated from the Academie voor Kleinkunst in Amsterdam.

She made her film debut in 1991 in the short film De Tranen van Maria Machita by Paul Ruven . For this role she was nominated for the Dutch film award Golden Calf in the same year . She then appeared in numerous Dutch and German television series and films, such as Pleidooi , Costa! and Wilder Westerwald . In the television film The Shine of the Stars (2007) she played the mother of a terminally ill disabled boy.

As a singer, Ten Damme appears as a solo artist and together with the band Soviet Sex . With the single Vegas she achieved a chart success in the Netherlands. In 2005 Ten Damme took part in the German preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest with the title Plattgeliebe composed by Udo Lindenberg . In 2008 she appeared as a singer on the Udo Lindenberg “Stark-wie-Zwei” tour. She also sang in various programs with Konrad Koselleck's big band , most recently in The Concert to End All Wars .

In 2010 she was a model for the lingerie and underwear manufacturer Mey .

Ellen ten Damme was married to the actor Markus Knüfken .

Filmography (selection)

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
I am here
  NL 53 05/12/2001 (5 weeks)
Impossible girl
  NL 22nd 04/07/2007 (10 weeks)
May jij?
  NL 13 
gold
gold
11/21/2009 (47 weeks)
The rainy zone
  NL 4th 05/26/2012 (17 weeks)
Berlin (with the Magpie Orchestra)
  NL 7th 04/10/2014 (18 weeks)
Everything draait
  NL 22nd 03/10/2015 (5 weeks)
Paris (with the Magpie Orchestra)
  NL 9 11/25/2017 (6 weeks)
  • 1988: Trust in a Feeling (EP)
  • 1995: I Love You (EP)
  • 1995: Sex Religion (EP)
  • 1995: Kill Your Darlings
  • 2001: It Ain't Easy (EP)
  • 2001: Gadget (EP)
  • 2001: Miss You (EP)
  • 2001: I Am Here
  • 2002: Vegas (EP)
  • 2007: Impossible Girl (EP)
  • 2007: Stay (EP)
  • 2007: Hey Now (EP)
  • 2008: Impossible Girl
  • 2009: Durf jij?
  • 2012: Het regende zon
  • 2014: Berlin (with the Magpie Orchestra )
  • 2017: Paris (with the Magpie Orchestra)
  • 2019: Casablanca (with the Magpie Orchestra)
  • 17-07-2020: Más Caliente in Magnetron (Single)

Web links

Commons : Ellen ten Damme  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Cosma Shiva Hagen drops the covers for Mey. In: Die Welt online on January 9, 2010. Retrieved on August 27, 2013
  2. Chart sources Netherlands: Albums
  3. Awards for Music Sales: NL