Verona Verbakel

Verona Verbakel (born 15 September 1992) is a Belgian actress.

Acting career

Verona Verbakel has been working with theater company ''Ontroerend Goed'' since 2009''.'' She was cast in theater productions ''Once and for all we're gonna tell you who we are so shut up and listen'' (in the English, French, German and Italian version) and ''Teenage Riot''.

For ''Sirens'' (2014-2017), a feminist performance from the same theater company, she received ''The stage award for acting excellence'' for ''Best Ensemble'' at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2014.

In 2013, she performed ''The depth of the valley'' by ''Rataplan'' and director ''Dimitri Leue''.

In 2014 she graduated ''Magna cum laude'' at the Royal Conservatory Antwerp (BE) for Drama Acting, one of her teachers being Ivo van Hove from ITA.

From 2015 until 2018 she performed her theatre solo ''The Audition''. In 2017 she performed ''La democrazia in America'' by Italian director Romeo Castellucci. From 2016 until 2019 she played the lead in Liv by ''The Mannschaft''. In 2018 she performed Das Reingold/''Half of the Ring'' by Dutch theatre company ''De Warme Winkel''. In 2019 her dance solo ''Pablo'' premiered at ''Vooruit Ghent'' with the support of ''Dansvitrine''. From 2020 until 2022 she performed ''Work Harder'' by Dutch theatre company ''Wunderbaum'' and Belgian actress and directress ''Lies Pauwels'', in the Dutch and German version. Her performance ''Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History'' premiered at De Parade Utrecht and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2022. In 2023, her theater performance ''Voyeur'' premiered at the Amsterdam Fringe Festival in De Brakke Grond, coached by Lies Pauwels. August 2024 saw the premiere of the theater performance ''Het Ego'' at Theater Aan Zee in Ostend, a production in collaboration with Anemone Valcke. In September 2024, ''The Ego'' premiered at the Amsterdam Fringe Festival at De Sloot. The Dutch newspaper NRC gave the performance a four-star review: 'The most outspoken indictment comes from the Flemish actresses Anemone Valcke & Verona Verbakel in the English-language ''The Ego''.'

Some of her movie and television parts include: ''Margaret Kelley'' in A Quiet Passion by ''Terence Davies'' as the maid of ''Emily Dickinson'' by Cynthia Nixon; a Wehrmacht Secretary in The Exception, ''Hilde'' in the French movie ''Rattrapage'', ''Polly'' in ''Out of the blue, into the black''; as a German punkerin in ''Dunkelstadt'' and various parts in Flemish television series such as ''Chanelle'' in ''Slippery Ice'', ''Vicky'' in ''Undercover 3'' and ''Liv'' in ''Under Fire''. In 2022, she played ''Nora'' in ''Two Summers'', directed by Tom Lenaerts and Brecht Van Hoenacker, and she played ''Beatrice Lemutte'' in the fourth season of ''Documentary Now!''. In 2023 she played ''Stefanie Courtois'' in the Irish-Belgian co-production '' Hidden Assets 2''. In 2024 she played ''Linda'' in the second season of Flemish series ''Assisen: the insuline murder'' and the part of ''Detective'' in British-Belgian series ''Patience''.

Theater

* 2023-2024 - Voyeur (BE, NL)
* 2023-2026 - The Ego (BE, NL)
* 2022-2025 - Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History (BE, NL, UK)
* 2020-2022 - Work Harder - Lies Pauwels & Wunderbaum (NL, DE)
* 2019 - Pablo - Dansvitrine (BE)
* 2017 - La democrazia in America - Romeo Castellucci & Societas (BE, NL)
* 2016-2019 - Liv - De Mannschaft (BE, NL)
* 2015-2018 - De Auditie - Het Kartel (BE)
* 2013-2018 - Das Reingold & De Halve Ring - Toneelgroep Amsterdam / De warme Winkel (BE, NL, SK)
* 2013-2017 - Sirens - Ontroerend Goed (BE, NL, UK, CH)
* 2013 - De diepte van het dal - Dimitri Leue & Rataplan (BE)
* 2009-2013 - Teenage Riot - Ontroerend Goed (BE, NL, D, DK, IT, UK, A, SE, AUS)
* 2009-2010 - Once and for all we're gonna tell you who we are so shut up and listen - Ontroerend Goed (BE, NL, USA, AUS, CAN, IRL)
* 2009-2010 - Remember Me - Kopergietery (BE, NL)

Television

* Patience (2024) - as Detective
* Assisen 2 (2024) - as Linda
* Hidden Assets 2 (2023) - as Stefanie Courtois
* Documentary Now! (2022) - as Beatrice Lemutte
* Two Summers (2022) - as Nora
* Undercover (season 3) (2021) - as Vicky
* Under Fire (2021) - as Liv
* Slippery Ice (2021) - as Chanelle
* VY-inc (2020) - as Rachel
* Darktown (2020) - as Punkerin
* De Kotmadam (2019) - as student
* The Flemish Bandits (2018) - as Magdaleine
* De zonen van Van As (2017) - as Marilyn
* Please, Love Me (2017) - as Saar
* Witse (2010) - as Maya

Film

* The Pod Generation (2023) - as Radical Feminist
* Cold Light (2020) - as Lore
* Love Paranoid (short) (2019) - as Laura
* La vida era eso (2019) - as Marie Anne
* The spy (2019) - as make-up girl
* Domino (2019) - as secretary Wold
* Out of the blue into the black (short) (2017) - as Polly
* Rattrapage (2017) - as Hilde
* De linde vertelt (2016) - as Katrijn
* The Exception (2016) - as Wehrmacht secretary
* A Quiet Passion (2016) as Margaret Kelley

References

External links

Verona Verbakel on IMDB

VTi - Personen - Verona Verbakel

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1992 births
Living people
Belgian stage actresses
21st-century Belgian actresses
People from Ghent