Joris Jacques Kees Putman (born 24 July 1984 at
Noordwijk
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On 1 January 2019, the former municipality of Noordwi ...
in the
Netherlands
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) is a
Dutch actor
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.
Career
Joris' mother is a non-western sociologist and his father is a documentary film-maker. From the age of three months until he was nine he and his parents lived out of Europe, firstly in
Burkina Faso
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,
West Africa
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, later in
Bangkok
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, and from 1990 in
Semarang
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in
Indonesia
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, before returning to the Netherlands in 1993.
He first acted aged 7 in a
Dutch film called "Oeroeg" ("Going Home") shot in Indonesia.
While at school in the Netherlands he acted in independent films and on TV. After finishing secondary school he moved to the UK to attend London Academy of Performing Arts (LAPA). After occasional film parts and, from 2000 onwards, some
English language
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stage roles, he was given the part of Morris Fischer in the popular and long-running Dutch
soap opera
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"
Goede Tijden, Slechte Tijden" ("Good Times, Bad Times"), which he played from 2004 until the end of 2006. March 2007 he became the winner of the Dutch "
Dancing on Ice
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" TV contest. Currently he plays in two TV series: "
The Sportlets" and "
Puppy Patrol". He has developed his own programme for young people "
Green Dream District
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" about new sustainable inventions which will show on "
National Geographic" Youth from January 2009.
Filmography
Television
*''Goede Tijden Slechte Tijden'' (2004–2006): Morris Fischer
** Vallende Drollen ( 2006- )
Film/Video
*''
Going Home
Going Home or Goin' Home may refer to:
Film and television Films
* ''Going Home'' (1944 film), an unreleased entry in the Private Snafu series
* ''Going Home'' (1971 film), starring Robert Mitchum
* ''Going Home'' (1987 film), starring Nicho ...
'' (aka ''Oeroeg'') (1993)
*''
Pest
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Science and medicine
* Pest (organism), an animal or plant deemed to be detrimental to humans or human concerns
** Weed, a plant considered undesirable
* Infectious disease, an illness resulting from an infection
** ...
'' (1996)
*''
Emergency Exit
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...
'' (2001)
*''
Efteling Fairy Tales
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The park was opened on May 31, 1952. It evolved from a nature pa ...
'' (2005)
As Himself
* ''
Dancing on Ice (Dutch version)'' (2007)
Sources
*
*
Joris Putman official website*
Dutch Dancing on Ice official website*
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1984 births
Living people
Dutch male film actors
Dutch male stage actors
Dutch male television actors
Indo people
People from Noordwijk
20th-century Dutch male actors
21st-century Dutch male actors
Dutch male soap opera actors