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Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]] | Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]] | ||
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| + | ''Rooi Rose'' 6(1), 1991; 54(9), 1996. | ||
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Revision as of 12:56, 16 June 2017
Miems de Bruyn (1922-2010) Stage, television and film actress.
Contents
Biography
She was married and had 4 daughters. She died of cancer shortly before her 88th birthday in April 2010.
Youth
Training
She studied at the University of Stellenbosch.
Career
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
Her stage career included roles in Die Narrekap and Sitroene uit Sicilië (circa 1948).
She became famous as the character “Tant Kriekie” in the first Afrikaans TV sit-com Nommer Asseblief (“Number Please” – first broadcast in 1979 and well into the early 1980s. Her performances include many other TV and film appearances (*) and she was still working late in her 80s. Her last appearance was in Sewende Laan (“Seventh Avenue”) and she was working on Villa Rosa when she fell ill.
She had a role in the film Promised Land.
Awards, etc
She was honoured for her film work by the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns in 2010.
Sources
NELM catalogue.
Go to ESAT Bibliography
For more information
Rooi Rose 6(1), 1991; 54(9), 1996.
Die Burger, 7 May 2007, p.3.
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