Liz Dick
Liz Dick (19**-). Bilingual actress and TV presenter (English, Afrikaans).
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Biography
She studied drama at the University of Cape Town Drama Department 1969-71(?).
While a first year student she met and married dramatist Pieter Fourie on 2 April in 1969. The couple had two children, Tanya Petrofna and Mashinka. They divorced in
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
After completing her studies, she became a full time actress with CAPAB, and would go on to perform in numerous plays for both CAPAB and PACOFS over the years. She later joined the SABC in Johannesburg as a well-known presenter.
Stage roles
Mother Courage (as “Katrin”, CAPAB 1973), Macbeth (as “Lady Macduff”), The Collector (as “Miranda”), A Flea in her Ear (as “Lucuenne”), Lovers, The Stranger (as “Mrs. X”), Three Sisters (as “Masha” with PACOFS), Drie Susters (as “Masha” with CAPAB), Die Ryk Weduwee (CAPAB, 1976), Hay Fever (as “Myra” with CAPAB), Private Lives (CAPAB 1978), 'n Seder val in Waterkloof (as “Mercia”), The Merchant of Venice (as “Portia” with NAPAC), You Never Can Tell (as “Gloria” with CAPAB), Anastasia (with CAPAB), Relatively Speaking (as “Ginny” with CAPAB), A Midsummer Night's Dream (as “Titania”/”Hippolyta” with NAPAC), Passion Play (for Pieter Toerien), Plaston: DNS-Kind (as"Kotie"), Dracula.
Television work
She was a presenter on the SABC nature programme 50/50.
Film work
TV movies/series: Die Ryk Weduwee (1977), Twelfth Night (1981), Dirk Hoffman (1985), Die Sonkring II (1993).
Feature films: A Feast in Time of Plague (Short) Interviewee
1993Die Sonkring II (TV Series)
Mrs. MacDonald (1993)
1987City of Blood
Claire Henderson
1987Code Name Vengeance
King's secretary (uncredited)
1985Dirk Hoffman (TV Series)
Willemien Hoffman - Die Ander Vrou (1985) ... Willemien Hoffman
1981Twelfth Night (TV Movie)
Olivia
1977Die Ryk Weduwee (TV Movie)
Alida de Waal
Switchboard operator Lied in My Hart (1970), Oh Brother..! (1974),
Awards, etc
Her four Three Leaf Arts Award nominations include one for her appearance in English as the deaf mute, Katrin, in Mother Courage.
Sources
SACD 1974; 1979/80; 1980/81; 1981/82.
Anastasia theatre programme, 1979.
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