Annelisa Weiland

(****-****). Actress. Performed in Hamlet, Toiings, Plaston, Tartuffe, Troilus and Cressida, Rape of the Belt and in Fangs. (SACD 1974)

(19*-) Actress. ** She starred in Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida, directed by John Hussey, together with Eckard Rabe, James White and Siegfried Mynhardt for PACT in 1974. She starred in Ken Leach’s production of The Story of an African Farm, adapted by André Brink from Olive Schreiner’s novel at the Alexander for PACT in 1975. She starred in Ken Leach’s production of Feydeau’s A Flea in Her Ear together with Dorothy Ann Gould, Diane Wilson, Richard Haines, Paul Slabolepszy, Michael Richard, Frantz Dobrowsky and Lesley Nott for PACT at the Alexander in 1976. She starred in Ken Leach’s production of the musical Fangs with Paul Slabolepszy, Michael Richard, Lesley Nott and Bill Flynn for PACT in 1977. She starred in Janice Honeyman’s production, Forbidden Fruits, together with Jeremy Crutchley, Mike Huff, Danny Keogh, Amanda Strydom and Vanessa Cooke at Upstairs at the Market in 1983/84 **In the 1990’s she became nationally famous for her TV role as “Hilda” in the iconic Afrikaans soap Sewende Laan.

Sources

Tucker, 1997

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