Carice van Houten
Carice Anouk van Houten, born on September 5, 1976, is a Dutch stage and film actress. One of Europe's most celebrated actresses, Carice van Houten is perhaps best known as 'Melisandre' in the iconic TV show Game of Thrones, a performance for which she has been recognized with an Emmy Award nomination in 2019. Other projects include Paul Verhoeven's award-winning Black Book and Bryan Singer's Valkyrie opposite Tom Cruise and as Melisandre on Game of Thrones. Recent projects include Instinct and Temple, a TV show for Sky opposite Mark Strong, which has been picked up for a second season.
Her Dutch-language feature Love Life, gained her further critical acclaim and broke box office records in her native Holland. Her next film Happy Housewive won her a record breaking 5th Golden Calf at The Netherlands Film Festival and was voted 'Best Dutch Actress of All Time' by the Dutch audience. Other awards include Best Actress for Black Butterflies at the Tribeca Film Festival and the Best Performance award for Instinct at the Les Arcs Film Festival 2019.
Her credits include Juan Carlos Fresnadillo's Intruders and Bill Condon's The Fifth Estate, the Jesse Owens biopic, Race, with Jason Sudekis and Jeremy Irons and voiced a character in The Simpsons. She can also be seen in Brian de Palma's Domino and in Brimstone, opposite Dakota Fanning, Guy Pearce and Kit Harrington, and The Glass Room, with Claes Bang. She played a leading role in Halina Reijn's directorial feature debut Instinct, opposite Marwan Kenzari (Aladdin), which won the Variety Piazza Grande Award in Locarno Film Festival 2019. Instinct is the first outing for the Carice and Halina's production banner, Man Up.
Acting
TV
Game of Thrones
as Melisandre
2011
TV
The Simpsons
as Annika Van Houten (voice)
1989
Movie
Valkyrie
as Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg
2008
Movie
Repo Men
as Carol
2010
Movie
Race
as Leni Riefenstahl
2016
Movie
Brimstone
as Anna
2016
Movie
Black Book
as Rachel Stein / Ellis de Vries
2006
Movie
The Fifth Estate
as Birgitta Jonsdottir
2013
Movie
Black Death
as Langiva
2010
Movie
Incarnate
as Lindsey
2016
Movie
Intruders
as Susanna
2011
Movie
Domino
as Alex Boe
2019
Movie
Dorothy Mills
as Jane Van Dopp
2008
Movie
Lost Girls & Love Hotels
as Ines
2020
Movie
From Time to Time
as Maria Oldknow
2009
Movie
Miss Minoes
as Minoes
2001
Movie
Love Is All
as Kiki Jollema
2007
TV
Temple
as Anna
2019
Movie
Stricken
as Carmen
2009
Movie
Instinct
as Nicoline
2019
Movie
Family Way
as Winnie de Roover
2012
Movie
Jackie
as Sofie
2012
Movie
The Happy Housewife
as Lea Meijer
2010
TV
Malice
as Nat Tanner
2025
