Tjitske Jacoba Reidinga (born 20 February 1972) is a Dutch actress and
comedian. Reidinga began her career on stage and acted in numerous
plays. She won a Colombina award for her role in Who's Afraid of
Virginia Woolf in 2002. She made her screen debut in 1996. Her first
major film role was as "Jet" in Ja Zuster, Nee Zuster (2002). She is
probably known best for her role as 'Claire' in the successful Dutch
series Gooische vrouwen.She was born in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands,
but grew up in Africa. Her parents moved to Uganda shortly after they
got together. Her father who had just graduated from Academie Minerva,
an art school in Groningen, found a job at an advertising agency in
Kampala. They moved back to the Netherlands to flee Idi Amin's reign
of terror. Her mother was pregnant at the time, and a few months later
she was born in the Frisian capital.After she was born her parents
wanted to go back to Africa, and the three went to Malawi where she
lived until the age of 8. She remembered it as a beautiful country
with a glittering lake (Lake Nyasa), where she could play freely. Her
brother Hesling was born there and a few years later they returned to
the Netherlands. She had a hard time trying to adjust herself to the
cold and crowded country where she was born.
comedian. Reidinga began her career on stage and acted in numerous
plays. She won a Colombina award for her role in Who's Afraid of
Virginia Woolf in 2002. She made her screen debut in 1996. Her first
major film role was as "Jet" in Ja Zuster, Nee Zuster (2002). She is
probably known best for her role as 'Claire' in the successful Dutch
series Gooische vrouwen.She was born in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands,
but grew up in Africa. Her parents moved to Uganda shortly after they
got together. Her father who had just graduated from Academie Minerva,
an art school in Groningen, found a job at an advertising agency in
Kampala. They moved back to the Netherlands to flee Idi Amin's reign
of terror. Her mother was pregnant at the time, and a few months later
she was born in the Frisian capital.After she was born her parents
wanted to go back to Africa, and the three went to Malawi where she
lived until the age of 8. She remembered it as a beautiful country
with a glittering lake (Lake Nyasa), where she could play freely. Her
brother Hesling was born there and a few years later they returned to
the Netherlands. She had a hard time trying to adjust herself to the
cold and crowded country where she was born.
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