About Ellis van Maarseveen

Actress: Ellis Van Maarseveen (aka Ellis Van Maar)

Agent: Ken McReddie Ltd, London, UK  0044  7 439 1456.
For The Netherlands: contact via casting companies

http://www.tusktheatre.net

Amsterdam-born Ellis Van Maarseveen’s first acting job in Britain consisted of an episode of Inspector Morse – The Setlling of the Sun, in which she played Heidi Vettinger.

Shortly before filming in Oxford for this successful series, Ellis played Selma Wijnberg in the WWII-drama Escape from Sobibor, directed by Jack Gould for CBS.
This epic drama (with Alan Arkin, Rutger Hauer, Jack Shepherd etc.) on the real-life story of the escape of hundreds of inmates from a Nazi death camp had a personal aspect in store for Ellis, because she met her future husband on the set. She settled with British actor Robert Gwilym in London and they have two children. They are now divorced and after sixteen years in the UK, Ellis moved back to the Netherlands.

While still living and working in London, Ellis was seen as Lucy in ‘Pains of Youth’ by Ferdinand Bruckner, a hugely successful theatre play which according to many, put The Gate Theatre in Notting Hill Gate, London, on the map.
Ellis’ face is on the front of the published play, together with Joanne Pearce (published by ‘Absolute Classics’).

The Glasgow Citizen’s Theatre invited Ellis up to appear in ‘Lady Windermere’s Fan’ and ‘Tale of two Cities’, and she also performed as Ray Winstone’s wife in ‘Mr.Hinkemann’ at the Old Red Lion in London.

More television followed with the 3-part series ‘A Guilty Thing Surprised’, the first series in a successful run of Ruth Rendell Mysteries, with George Baker as Inspector Wexford. Ellis played the part of Katja Doorn.

Being a continental actress, Ellis also worked in Holland and Belgium.
Straight after leaving drama school (Maastricht, the Netherlands) she landed one of the main parts- that of Judith Leyster, one of the first female professional painters – in the television series about the 17th century Flemish painter Adriaen Brouwer, called The Five Senses (Adriaen Brouwer, of de vijf zintuigen).
This series won the Rose of Montreux – the audience award.
Several other Dutch television productions in which she appeared: Alles is Liefde, Den Helder, Gooische Vrouwen, S1ngles, Flikken Maastricht, 13 in de Oorlog, Verborgen Verhalen, De Vliegenierster van Kazbek, GTST, Een Sneeuw, Medisch Centrum West, Het Kamerschut, Ernstige Delicten, Ha die Pa, Daar Gaat de Bruid. For those of us who don’t speak Dutch: these are all titles of
TV-dramas, murder-mysteries or comedies…

Ellis also appeared in commercials both in the UK and in the Netherlands and she regularly does voice overs for radio, television, cartoons and documentaries.
She was part of the cast for The Hiding Place, a radioplay directed by Philip Glassborow.
If you live in Holland you can catch her as Tecna in the cartoon Winx Club!

Ellis is the founder and artistic director of TUSK international Theatre Company, based in The Hague, the Netherlands (www.tusktheatre.net)

And the last thing not many people know about Ellis is that she and fellow actor Julia Henneman are the only actors to skip a year at Maastricht Drama School. That saved a year on student loans!