Marijke Pinoy


Marijke Pinoy is a Belgian actress.

Biography

Marijke Pinoy was born in Menen on 19 August 1958. She has played several supporting characters in television series and short films. In 2007, she starred as the mother of the protagonist in the film Ben X. She founded the theater group. In 2006, she was the main guest for theater on. In autumn 2008, she sat alongside biologist and styling specialist in the jury of the VTM program , which centered around the search for the best mother-daughter duo of Flanders.
She is the mother of actress, among others.
For the federal elections of 2007, Marijke Pinoy stood on the 15th position on the East Flemish list of Green party Groen!. During the Flemish elections of 2009, Pinoy stood again for the Groen! list in East Flanders, and again for the 2010 federal elections. For the local elections of 2012 she ran as a candidate on the Groen! list in Evergem, but was not elected.
She was one of the dozens of artists who, on 7 September 2018, placed her signature under an open letter in The Guardian directed towards the organizers of the Eurovision Song Contest for setting the 2019 edition of the contest in Israel. The letter demanded that the European Broadcasting Union "cancel Israel's hosting of the contest altogether and move it to another country with a better human rights record."
In 2025, she won the for General Cultural Merit 2024.

Theater

  • NTGent - Frans Woyzeck, as Margriet
  • De Werf Brugge - Zwijg Kleine, as Jacqueline

    Film and television

Television series

  • Familie - guest role as Kristien, a friend of Monique
  • ' - Véronique Lemaître
  • ' - guest role as mother of Katrien
  • Recht op Recht - guest role as the mother of Bjorn, guest role as Natasja, guest role as Gini Plaatsnijder and guest role as Ingrid De Potter
  • ' - guest role as Ms. Berckmans
  • ' - Martine Reeckmans
  • LouisLouise - guest role as Mia Coucke
  • ' - Mieke
  • Witse - guest role as Agnes Leemans and Milène De Smet
  • ' - Viv
  • ' - guest role as Erika
  • Zone Stad - guest role as mother of Esther
  • ' - Suzanne Pelckmans
  • The Team - Justine Verbeek
  • Nonkels - guest role as Mammie Thérèse

    Short films

  • Beste papa
  • Kurrel & Co - Thérèse
  • Buiten adem!
  • Love Machine
  • Groenendael - Alies
  • Aan zee - Mia
  • Of cats & women - Ariël
  • Onder Invloed - Ineke
  • Hotel Mama
  • Portrait of a disappearing woman - Sabine

    Films

  • Het gezin van Paemel - Romanie
  • De zevende hemel - receptionist
  • ' - Victor's mother
  • ' - Lies' mother
  • Een ander zijn geluk - customer at the dry-cleaner's
  • Vidange perdue - Sylvia
  • Ben X - Ben's mother
  • Small Gods - Mother
  • Belgica - Diane
  • Waarom Wettelen - Aunt Sherry
  • Mother - Sister Katarina