Annie Basson
Annie Basson (1938-2025) Actress, stage and TV director.
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Biography
Born on 9 October, 1938 and raised on the farm Klipvlei near the town of Morreesburg,
She studied at the University of Stellenbosch and trained at the Akademie vir Dramakuns under Babs Laker. She subsequently studied at Unisa and Trinity College in London.
She was married to TV producer Danie Odendaal
Basson passed away on Sunday, 16 May 2025 in Langebaan on the Cape West Coast.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
She began her career as an actress for the PACOFS in the late 1960s ansd 1970s, appearing in plays like The Whole Truth, Die Laaste van die Takhare (1966), Under Milk Wood, Afrikaners is Plesierig, The Shoemaker's Prodigious Wife, .
Annie joined the SABC in 19** and went on to become a well known director of films and documentaries, among which a most valuable and widely researched 13 part history of theatre in South Africa, entitled ** and broadcast by the SABC in the late 1970s.
She also directed the television series Meester (1992), the TV film Uitdraai (1988),.
She eventually joined Danie Odendaal to be the co-producer of the acclaimed and immensely popular soap opera, Sewende Laan ("Seventh Avenue").
Awards, etc
She received an award from the ATKV for her contribution to the Afrikaans entertainment industry.
Sources
Insig, 1 April 2007.
A.J. Opperman. 2025. "Annie Basson se vriende onthou...", Netwerk24, 16 March, 2025.[1]
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