Acting
May 21, 1976
Oirschot, Netherlands
Alex Klaasen
Acting
Biography
Alex Klaassen is a Dutch singer, actor (both for stage and screen) and comedian.
Feature Films (24)
A collection of classic fairy tales such as Cinderella and Little Red Riding Hood, with a nod and a wink to contemporary times. The film offers characters such as the 'ugly sisters' Paris and Hilton, an updated relationship between Red Riding Hood and the big bad wolf, homosexuality and corny humor. Also musical scenes in which the characters sing the songs of current pop artists as well as many popular Dutch hits.
Happily Ever After
Registration of the first solo theatre program by the Dutch actor, comedian and singer Alex Klaasen. Klaasen sings, among other things, a schizophrenia musical and a hymn to the turd.
Alex Klaasen: Eindelijk alleen
Soof is reaching 40 and has everything she ever wanted: three children, a small catering business, a sweet husband Kasper and a lovely home. Until she starts asking herself: 'is this all there is'?
Soof
A young girl sets out to prove to her disapproving mother she can house-train the endearing but unruly little piglet she gets as a birthday gift from her estranged oddball grandfather.
Oink
Registration of the "musical-pastiche theatre program" by the Dutch comedian Brigitte Kaandorp. She accompanied by an ensemble and several musicians.
Brigitte Kaandorp: Miss Kaandorp, Brigitte de Musical
Chez Nous is a feel good comedy and the name of a gay cafe in the heart of Amsterdam that is on the brink of being closed.
Chez Nous
A modern fairytale about ordinary feelings and extraordinary events. Aafke and Thalia are both 30 years old when they meet each other in a shoe shop. They both return there after having accidentally left the shop with each other’s new shoes. They spontaneously decide to trade lives with each other for 24 hours. Both are frustrated with their own lives and looking for the greener grass on the other side of the fence - only to arrive at the conclusion that the grass is always greener until you see it from close by…
New Shoes
A lonely widower finds himself facing both his devout Calvinist village community and his own deepest regrets when he takes a deranged vagrant into his home.
Matterhorn
When Claire returns from Burkina Faso, she is totally transformed and her girlfriends barely recognize her. Cheryl discovers Martin is cheating on her yet again and for her, this time it's the last straw: she files for divorce. Anouk, also unhappy with her love life, threatens to develop an eating disorder. Roelien, however, accepts Evert's wedding proposal. Then, a fatal and thoroughly bizarre accident transports the girlfriends to the snowy mountaintops of Austria...
Gooische Vrouwen 2
TV recording of the hommage to the Dutch lyricist Jurrian van Dongen. Van Dongen wrote countless song lyrics for theater and television. He has been writing for the children's program Het Klokhuis for decades. He also writes for theater programs by Wende Snijders, Jenny Arean, Paul de Leeuw, Alex Klaasen and many others. In addition, he was a teacher at a cabaret academy for a new generation of lyricists.
De Mooie Dingen: Hommage aan Jurrian van Dongen
Registration of the theater revue of the same name by Alex Klaasen and Martine Sandifort. 'Volgend jaar lach je d'r om' has won the cabaret festival Cameretten in 2000 and was also awarded the Pall Mall Export Prize in 2000.
Alex Klaasen & Martine Sandifort: Volgend Jaar Lach Je D'r Om
Television & Series (18)
In the Dutch version of RuPaul's Drag Race, drag queens compete for the title of Holland's Next Drag Superstar.
