57 Facts About Halina Reijn

Halina Reijn was born on 10 November 1975 in Amsterdam, Netherlands, to Fleur ten Kate and Frank Volkert Reijn.

Halina Reijn is the middle child of three daughters, with an older sister named Leonora and a younger named Esther.

Halina Reijn's father was gay despite being in a heterosexual marriage with her mother.

Halina Reijn's father built a theater room with a podium and flats for her.

Halina Reijn developed an interest in acting when her babysitter brought her along for a showing of Annie, a film adaptation of the Broadway musical, at a local theater when she was six.

Halina Reijn found it inadequate and thought the other children did not take it seriously enough, which led her mother to pursue an audition with the theater collective De Voorziening despite being only ten years old.

Halina Reijn was professionally trained at the Maastricht Academy of Dramatic Arts, where she graduated in 1998.

Halina Reijn had parts in The Cherry Orchard, The Last Ones, Koons and Adel Blank, the latter one was a co-production with De Mexicaanse Hond.

In 1998, Halina Reijn branched out into film, with the adaptation of the Jan Wolkers's short story De wet op het kleinbedrijf, where she had a principal role in the television film.

Halina Reijn made her big screen acting debut in De Omweg, a semi-autobiographical drama directed and written by Frouke Fokkema.

Halina Reijn had a minor role in Moonlight, Paula van der Oest's follow-up movie.

Halina Reijn then starred in Maarten Treurniet's directorial debut Father's Affair, where she played Ellen, the girlfriend of Peter Paul Muller's character and best friend of his deceased wife, who is notified by his GP that he is infertile, which leads to a desperate search for the biological father of his fourteen-year-old son.

Halina Reijn started to resent her work and needed a time-out from her work, friends and home.

Halina Reijn took part in Masterclass, a hidden camera fake documentary-style television film written and directed Hans Teeuwen.

Halina Reijn played a media expert named Anna Tabaknikova that was based on Maja Kuzmanovic.

Halina Reijn next played as the central character in Hedda Gabler.

In contrast with other portrayals, Halina Reijn approached the character in a more messy, unkept way who is more direct and frank in her dealings with others.

Halina Reijn then starred in Black Book, a World War II drama-thriller co-written and directed by Paul Verhoeven and co-starring Carice van Houten and Sebastian Koch.

Halina Reijn originally auditioned for the lead role, but was passed over in favour of van Houten and was given the part of Ronnie instead; Verhoeven found her appearance a better match for the latter character, they wanted a softer less pronounced look for the protagonist.

Halina Reijn would provide her voice for the short Voor een paar knikkers meer, which became a festival darling that was shown at 200 festivals.

Also that spring, at the 57th Berlin International Film Festival, Halina Reijn was one of the actors selected by the European Film Promotion for the annual Shooting Stars Award.

Halina Reijn took on the role of Nadine, in the road film drama of the same name, directed by Erik de Bruyn.

The role of Nadine is depicted by three different actors across three stages of the character's life with Halina Reijn appearing in flashbacks as the youngest one who is an ambitious party animal.

In May 2008, Halina Reijn returned to Hollywood for the second time in order to develop her screenplay of her novel, Prinsesje Nooitgenoeg, into a feature film with the intention of directing the project herself.

Halina Reijn had supporting role as Margarethe von Oven alongside her Black Book co-star Carice van Houten, in the Tom Cruise vehicle Valkyrie.

Halina Reijn started off 2009 with her first monodrama, Jean Cocteau's La voix humaine.

At first, Halina Reijn was apprehensive about the role citing poor experiences with solo plays at school, as a solution she became directly involved co-translating the original text.

Mick Heaney of the Irish Times described Halina Reijn's acting as "whose performance is remarkable in any language".

Halina Reijn gravitated to the script due to it engagement with current events, and joined the cast despite the fact that her role as receptionist Deniz, described as a "cold formal type", was only secondary.

Halina Reijn would come back to television with the first season of In therapie alongside van Houten, the Dutch version of the Israelian BeTipul, In the show she plays Lara, a doctor, who falls for her therapist.

Halina Reijn starred in the music short film Great Lengths featuring music from Martyn.

Halina Reijn provided her voice for another short film, titled Sintel.

Halina Reijn was considered one of the few highlights, in a movie that was mostly panned.

In preparation for the role, Halina Reijn lost nine kilos by sticking to strict diet for nine weeks.

Halina Reijn began 2012 with a supporting role in the television film, De Overloper, that bridges the fifth and sixth season of the police drama Flikken Maastricht.

Halina Reijn's performance was noted as one of the high points.

Halina Reijn next played the titular character in a restaging of Henrik Ibsen's Nora with director Thibaud Delpeut.

Halina Reijn initially wished to direct the play herself with Karina Smulders in the lead, directing her own play was long held dream for her but she backed down and when Delpeut wanted to direct it she was cast as Nora.

The play proved divisive among critics and audiences, although Halina Reijn's performance received universal acclaim.

Halina Reijn was awarded a Theo d'Or by VSCD for her portrayal in Nora.

Halina Reijn then starred as the title character in the ten-part television series Charlie, the Dutch remake of the medical comedy-drama Nurse Jackie.

Halina Reijn had a minor part in the Feuten: Het Feestje, a stand-alone sequel film to the Feuten television series.

Halina Reijn portrayed four characters, three women and one man, St Just, Julie, Lucile and Marion, in a radical restaging of Georg Buchner's Danton's Death, directed by Johan Simons.

Halina Reijn had a supporting role in Boy 7, a film adaptation based on the eponymous dystopian science fiction young adult novel of Mirjam Mous.

Halina Reijn provided her voice for Nature Is Speaking, an environmental awareness campaign created by Conservation International.

That same year, Halina Reijn returned to the small screen for a television series and film.

Halina Reijn portrayed the fiance of the male lead, Rick, a baker who falls in love with an international superstar.

Halina Reijn closed out the year of 2015 on stage with an adaptation of Louis Couperus's famous novel, The Hidden Force.

Halina Reijn followed in the footsteps of Pleuni Touw, who played the character in the De Stille Kracht mini-series, which was noted for having first nude scene on Dutch television.

In 2015, Halina Reijn co-founded her production company, Man Up, with Carice van Houten, which produced her critically-acclaimed directorial debut Instinct in 2019, starring van Houten in the leading role.

Halina Reijn co-created the series alongside Carice van Houten, writing and producing the show through her and van Houten's production company, Man Up.

Halina Reijn next wrote, produced, and directed the erotic thriller, Babygirl, with Nicole Kidman in the lead role; it follows Kidman as a CEO who starts an affair with a young intern, played by Harris Dickinson.

Halina Reijn's second book was a collection of columns, presented as a diary, which she wrote for Viva, called "Halina: doen f ik iemand anders ben".

In 2013, for a company called Soundtrackcity, Halina Reijn was one of the voices for an audio tour through De Pijp, Amsterdam.

When Halina Reijn was around six or seven years old, she and one of her sisters wanted to join the Catholic Church, to the shock of their parents.

Halina Reijn has a close friendship with fellow Dutch actress Carice van Houten, whom she has known since about 1994.

Halina Reijn was in relationships with Fedja van Huet and with Daniel de Ridder between 2017 and 2023.