Willeke van Ammelrooy

Overview

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Acting
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Birthday
Apr 05, 1944 (81 years old)

Willeke van Ammelrooy

Known For

The Magnet Man
1h 29m
Movie 2024

The Magnet Man

In the splendidly decorated barbaric world of Antwerp, an ordinary lonely Lucien has an inhuman capability to stick metal objects to his body. An introverted Buster Keaton-like man of a few words is a hapless artist, clown, freak, and musician with a wounded heart and a quiet violin. His vocation is to entertain the common people despite his burning pain and guilt for the inevitable loss of an estranged father.

The Dick Maas Method
1h 37m
Movie 2020

The Dick Maas Method

Documentary on the Dutch filmmaker Dick Maas.

In the Palace
0h 22m
Movie 2018

In the Palace

When the elderly burlesque dancer Elvira wishes to see her deceased husband Jean one last time, it is the devil who comes to pick her up.

Life Is Wonderful
1h 34m
Movie 2018

Life Is Wonderful

Life Is Wonderful is a feel-good movie about love and longing. Best friends Mees and Boelie are spending a beautiful spring day in Amsterdam's Vondelpark. It seems like just a normal day, until they meet the young and attractive Panda. While the heat rises in the park, it's nowhere to be found between the long-married couple Etta and Ernst-Jan. Ernst-Jan suspects Etta of cheating and has his own ideas of how to catch her in the act. We also meet Rosa and Kees, old lovers whose paths cross after decades of not seeing each other. On this spring day in Amsterdam, their love starts blooming again.

Loving Ibiza: Series
0h 45m
TV Show 2013

Loving Ibiza: Series

Dutch ex-pats and tourists -- including a single dad and his kids, a famous DJ and a heartbroken waitress -- work, play and fall in love on Ibiza.

Beatrix, Oranje onder vuur
TV Show 2012

Beatrix, Oranje onder vuur

Series about the life and work of Queen Beatrix, offering a meticulous dramatised interpretation of historical events. The series opens in the Royal tour bus, a few minutes before the attack on Queen’s Day 2009, and goes on to show other tough and fine moments in the monarch’s life. Is she really the business manager on the throne that the media often call her? What is she like as a mother and grandmother? How did she cope with her husband’s depressions and illness?