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Pleuni Touw (born 8 November 1938) is a Dutch film, television and theatre actress best known for her role in the 1974 miniseries '' De Stille Kracht'', which featured the first televised nude scene in Dutch history.


Life and career

Touw was born in
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on 8 November 1938. In 1962, Touw signed with the Arnhem School of Theatre. She began her film career in 1968, shortly after divorcing her first husband, working in comedies; she had found few opportunities in theatre, complaining that older actresses were able to play young characters for more than fifty years. Touw worked for the media tycoon
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several times. In 1974, Touw starred in '' De Stille Kracht'', a drama based on the novel of the same name by
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. The series had a nude scene, the first in Dutch television, which showed Touw bathing while
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spit ("blood" in other sources) spontaneously appears on her body. The scene remained controversial afterwards, and although Touw gained popular recognition she was passed over for later roles; she later commented that, had she been in the United States, producers would have said "grab that girl, she will be good for the box office" and hire her. Afterwards she found herself typecast as playing seductive women. In December 1975, she married fellow actor Hugo Metsers, the son of a businessman, notorious for his role in the 1971 erotic film ''
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''. During the 1980s, Touw worked as a director and established her own production company, BV Polona. She attempted to adapt
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's 1982 play ''
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'' and produced a Dutch version of
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's 1962 work ''
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''. She also modelled, being featured on the cover of the Dutch edition of ''
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'' in December 1986. In the early 1990s she was inactive, following a reduction in the number of subsidies given to theatrical productions. By the end of the decade she had returned to the theater, acting in a production of
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''. She also took a role in ''Oud Geld'' (''Old Money''). Touw had a small role in the 2008 film ''
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'', and in 2012 she starred in the medical drama ''Doctor Deen'', playing the mentally unstable mother of
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's character. Later that year she acted in the Dutch adaptation of the 1985 American sitcom ''
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'', which was seen by 1.2 million viewers on its 25 August debut.


Filmography

Film * ''Rufus'' (1975) * ''Zwaarmoedige Verhalen voor bij de Centrale Verwarming'' (1975) * ''Het Debuut'' (1977) * ''Mijn Vriend'' (1979) * ''Lieve Jongens'' (1980) * ''Het Verboden Bacchanaal'' (1981) * ''De Zwarte Ruiter'' (1983) * '' De Tussentijd'' (1993) * '' Filmpje!'' (1995) * ''
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'' (2001) * '' De Dominee'' (2004) * ''
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'' (2008) Television * ''Villa des roses'' (1968) * ''De glazen stad'' (1968) * '' De Stille Kracht'' (1974) * ''De Fabriek'' (1981) * ''Diamant'' – Hester van Tellingen (1993–1994) * ''Gemeentebelangen'' (2002) * ''
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'' – Mother of Claire (2009) * '' Dokter Deen'' – Mother of Maria Deen (2000–) * ''Golden Girls'' – Toos (2012–)


References

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External links

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