1. Marleen Gorris was born on 9 December 1948 and is a Dutch former writer and director.
12 Facts About Marleen Gorris
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Marleen Gorris has won 2 Golden Calf awards and received numerous other nominations, including one nomination for BAFTA Awards.
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Marleen Gorris was born on 9 December 1948 in Roermond in the Netherlands.
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Marleen Gorris was born to Protestant, working-class parents in the Catholic southern part of the Netherlands.
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Marleen Gorris studied drama at the University of Amsterdam and has an MA in Drama from the University of Birmingham, England.
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Marleen Gorris began working as a filmmaker with almost no previous experience in the cinema and made an auspicious writing and directorial debut in 1982 with A Question of Silence.
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Marleen Gorris took her first effort to the Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman, hoping to interest her in directing it.
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Marleen Gorris did not make another film until The Last Island.
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In 1995, Marleen Gorris had her greatest international success to-date with Antonia's Line.
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Marleen Gorris followed this movie with The Luzhin Defence, based on a novel by Vladimir Nabokov.
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In June 2017, Marleen Gorris announced she had retired from making films.
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Marleen Gorris came out as a lesbian after the success of Antonia's Line.