Kiki Classen

Kiki Classen (born February 19, 1964 in Rotterdam ) is a Dutch actress and television presenter .

Classen was born the daughter of the actor Edmond Classen . In her home country she became known to a wide audience in the early 1980s with the role of Wiep Lansberg in the comedy series Zeg 'ns AAA . She then played the lead role alongside Eric Schneider in the play TABU and took part in the performance of Suiker , a play by the Dutch poet Hugo Claus , which was nominated for the Gouden Gids Audience Award. Later, she stood in the staging of The Dinner Party by Neil Simon and the theater adaptation of Zeg 'ns AAA on stage. Both productions were nominated for the NRC Handelsblad Audience Award.

On Dutch television she presented the program Blond, Blond en Blond with Patricia Brok and Annette Visser on the SBS 6 channel . She posed naked for the Dutch edition of Playboy magazine in May 1990. In the same year she played the role of Marion Bowman-van Tellingen in the television series Diamant , which caused public discussion because of the open portrayal of an incestuous relationship.

Claasen also worked in various film productions, for example in 1990 in the French production Vincent et moi and in 1997 in Theo van Gogh's Au! . In 2001 she took on the lead role in Terrorama! , the controversial feature film debut by Dutch director Edwin Brienen .

In the 2006/07 season she was in the successful performance of the musical Wat Zien Ik ?! which is based on the novel of the same name by Albert Mol .

Web links

• Kiki Classen in the Internet Movie Database (English)