Eugenie Heyns

(b. 11/06/1925 – d. **/**/****). Actress. Together with her husband, Pierre de Wet, she was a member of the Volksteater under Anna Neethling-Pohl. Her stage appearances included Skewe Straatjie (1945), with Jan Schutte and Gert van den Bergh; the female lead in Romeo and Juliet (1949) opposite Leon Gluckman, directed by André van Gyseghem and staged at the Wits University Great Hall and the Pretoria Opera House for the Johannesburg Repertory Players; and two small parts in Macbeth, with André Huguenet and Anna Neethling-Pohl for the Nasionale Toneelorganisasie (NTO).

She acted in four films for African Film Productions, all of them directed by Pierre de Wet: Pinkie se Erfenis (1946), Geboortegrond (1946), Simon Beyers (1947) and Kom Saam Vanaand! (1949) (FO)

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