Angela Schijf is a Dutch-Belgian actress. Since 2007 she is mainly known for her role in the long running Dutch police drama series ''

Flikken Maastricht ''Flikken Maastricht'' (Belgian Dutch for "Maastricht Cops") is a Dutch police drama. The series is set in Maastricht, Limburg (Netherlands), Limburg, a city in the south of the Netherlands, and began broadcasting on Dutch channel NPO 1 on 3 Sep ...

''.

Career

Schijf gained national fame through her role as Kim Verduyn in the show ''

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'', which she played from 1996 until 1999. After taking on many roles in television and movies, Schijf began playing Eva van Dongen in the Dutch police drama TV-series ''Flikken Maastricht'' in 2007, which finished production on its nineteenth season in 2024. Between 2014 and 2016 Schijf performed the play ''Kreutzersonate, als het verlangen maar stopt'', inspired by Leo Tolstoy's novella

The Kreutzer Sonata ''The Kreutzer Sonata'' (, ) is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, named after Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata. The novella was published in 1889, and was promptly censored by the Russian authorities. The work is an argument for the ideal of sexual abstinence ...

, in theatres around the Netherlands and Belgium with her husband and two musicians. In 2016 the play was banned from being performed by court order after two Belgian musicians who had been replaced by Dutch musicians objected to their copyright being used. Schijf appealed the judgment.

Personal life

On 3 July 2002 she married the Belgian actor Tom Van Landuyt. Together they have three daughters. After living in

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for 11 years, Schrijf obtained a Belgian passport in 2013, saying she feels she is as much Dutch as she is Belgian.

Filmografie

Television

Movie

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