Kim van Kooten


Kim van Kooten is a Dutch actress and screenwriter. In international cinema, she is best known for the 2003 Dutch production Phileine Says Sorry, filmed partly in New York City, in which she plays the lead. She was also the screenwriter of the script of the very successful Dutch movie Love Is All and won a Golden Calf for Best Actress in Phileine Says Sorry, and for Best Scenario with Met grote blijdschap.
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Life and work

Van Kooten was born on 26 January 1974 in Purmerend, Netherlands, to Kees van Kooten and Barbara Kits. Her brother is the actor and singer Kasper van Kooten. She grew up in Zuidoostbeemster. In 1987, together with her mother she accepted on behalf of her father the CPNB's audience award. CPNB proclaimed him to be the most popular author in the category novels and stories.
She studied screenwriting at the Film Academy in Holland, but dropped out in the first year. After a chance meeting with director Robert Jan Westdijk, van Kooten made her acting debut in the film Zusje. These were followed by films such as Jesus is een Palestijn, Mariken and Phileine Zegt Sorry.
She is also a screenwriter and was asked by Theo van Gogh to do the script for the film Blind Date. She now specialises in working with characters and real-life dialogue.
Besides being an actress and writer, van Kooten worked as an editor and presenter for the cinema programme Stardust for the Dutch television network VPRO. She was the star of a dramedy show called Evelien, that shown on Net5.
She has written the script of the successful Dutch movie Alles is Liefde. The movie has been seen over a million times, which resulted in a Diamond Film award. Later, it received a Dutch Golden Calves award for best Dutch movie. She is married to actor Jacob Derwig, with whom she has two children, Roman and Kee Molly. They met on the set of the TV-series De acteurs, where various actors played different roles written by Van Kooten.

Filmography

As an actress

She also voices one of the characters in the movie Undercover Kitty.

As a screenwriter