Christine Basson

(19*- 2009) Actress. *** Completed a BA Drama at the Stellenbosch University and then became a founding member of Pieter Fourie Genootskap, touring the country with Pieter Fourie’s plays. Later worked for The Space and the Market Theatre in the 1970s on plays such as Pieter-Dirk Uys’s Selle Ou Storie (1974, 1975), God’s Forgotten (Pieter-Dirk Uys, 1975/1976), Karnaval (Pieter-Dirk Uys, 1975), Ooh! La-La and Selle Ou Storie (1975, 1983), Paradise is Closing Down (Pieter-Dirk Uys, 1977). In 1975 won the Computicket Award as Best Actress for Selle ou Storie. Then she worked for CAPAB??* in ****. Nominated for Best Supporting Actress in 1977 for ‘n Seder Val in Waterkloof. Besides being a professional stage actress, drama teacher and radio presenter for the past 30 years, she also had years of experience in theatre, radio, film, TV and voice work in both Afrikaans and English. Became nationally known in a number of TV series, most notably as “Nora Naude” in the long running soap Egoli.