Mimi Kok

Maria Christina "Mimi" Kok (25 January 1934 – 19 April 2014) was a Dutch film and television actress.

Mimi Kok
Mimi Kok and Henk van Ulsen in Pension Hommeles (1958)
Born
Maria Christina Mimi Kok

(1934-01-25)25 January 1934
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Died19 April 2014(2014-04-19) (aged 80)
NationalityDutch
OccupationActress

Biography

Kok was discovered by Toon Hermans after winning a beauty pageant in Zandvoort in 1951. He hired her to perform with his theater show. At the end of the 1950s she tried her luck in the United States in the musical business, but her attempt was unsuccessful and returned to the Netherlands in a state of depression.[1]

She returned to work with Toon Hermans again, after which her career on stage and in film and television took off.[1] She played both comic and more serious roles[2] in more than 30 productions.[1] She was a regular on the television shows of Wim T. Schippers, playing the "full-breasted" character Gé Braadslee on Het is weer zo laat!,[3] probably her best-known role.[1]

In 2012 she appeared in a reality TV show, Krasse Knarren, with four other elderly famous people.[3] Later in life she suffered from loneliness and depression,[4] volunteering at a telephone helpline to combat her own loneliness and to help others.[5]

Her last role was on a boat during the Amsterdam Gay Pride boat parade in 2013.[2] In January 2014 she was hospitalized with pneumonia.[6]

Mimi Kok died on 19 April 2014 from lung disease.[2]

Mimi Kok in 1951, at the Miss Zandvoort pageant

Filmography

Film

Television

Theatre
  • En toen kwam dokter Frost (1957-1958)

References
  1. "Mimi Kok (80): van ambitieuze rasartiest tot krasse knar". Het Parool (in Dutch). 20 April 2014. Retrieved 21 April 2014.
  2. "Actrice Mimi Kok (80) overleden". Het Parool (in Dutch). 20 April 2014. Retrieved 21 April 2014.
  3. "Actrice Mimi Kok overleden". Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (in Dutch). 20 April 2014. Retrieved 21 April 2014.
  4. "Mimi Kok: ooit bemind en bejubeld, nu vergeten" (in Dutch). Martje. 16 March 2012. Archived from the original on 21 April 2014. Retrieved 21 April 2014.
  5. "Ursul de Geer & Mimi Kok openhartig over eenzaamheid" (in Dutch). Rooms-Katholiek Kerkgenootschap. Retrieved 21 April 2014.
  6. "Mimi Kok (79) in ziekenhuis met longontsteking" (in Dutch). Nieuws.nl. 8 January 2014. Archived from the original on 21 April 2014. Retrieved 21 April 2014.
  7. Mimi Kok 80 - Van ambitieuze rasartiest tot krasse knar, www.parool.nl
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