Miems de Bruyn

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Miems de Bruyn (1922-2010) Stage, television and film actress.

For more information

Rooi Rose 6(1), 1991; 54(9), 1996.

Die Burger, 7 May 2007, p.3.


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

Erepenning vir Rolprentkuns Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kunspryse; Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns; De Bruyn, Miems 2010.

Sources

NELM catalogue.

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