Gaite Jansen

Gaite Sara Kim Jansen (born 25 December 1991) is a Dutch actress born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Gaite Jansen
Born (1991-12-25) 25 December 1991
Rotterdam, Netherlands
OccupationActress
Years active2008–present

Jansen received her professional training at the Maastricht Academy of Dramatic Arts.

At age 12, she was awarded Best Actress Award at the 48 Hour Film Project in Amsterdam for her role in Luwte. Her performance as a troubled deaf teenager in the acclaimed arthouse film 170 Hz (2011) earned her nominations for Best Actress at the Seattle Film Festival and the Netherlands Film Festival. The film Supernova, in which she plays the lead role, was selected for the Generations competition at Berlinale film festival 2014.

In 2014, Jansen made her stage debut at the prestigious Amsterdam Theatre Group, as Ophelia in Hamlet vs. Hamlet, directed by Guy Cassiers and played in Medea later that year.

In 2015, Jansen appeared as the lead role in the film Greenland. She played a suicidal girl in In Therapie, the Dutch version of BeTipul in 2010.[1] She was nominated "best actress" at the Gouden Kalf awards in 2012 for her role in 170 Hz, where she played a deaf girl and conversed mostly in Dutch Sign Language.[2]

Jansen also plays the role of Duchess Tatiana Petrovna in the third season of the BBC gangster drama Peaky Blinders.[3] In 2017 she appeared as Hana Raznikova in Line of Duty.[4] She plays Phoenix in the Cinemax TV series Jett.

Selected filmography

References
  1. "Hij luistert". NRC Handelsblad (in Dutch). 16 July 2010. Archived from the original on 30 July 2013. Retrieved 3 March 2012.
  2. "Zonder acteren is alles verloren". de Volkskrant (in Dutch). 12 January 2012. Retrieved 3 March 2013.
  3. "Peaky Blinders – Duchess Tatiana Petrovna – BBC Two". BBC. Retrieved 2016-05-29.
  4. "Gaite Jansen gets regular role in BBC's hit series Line of Duty". hoholok. Archived from the original on 2018-06-21. Retrieved 2017-04-22.


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