Astrid Whettnall
Birth : 1971-03-17, Uccle, Belgium
History
Astrid Whettnall (née Ullens de Schooten Whettnall, known as Astrid Whettnall; born 17 March 1971) is a Belgian stage and film actress. She studied at the Kleine Academy in Brussels and began working in theatre. Her film credits include Capital (2012), In the Name of the Son (2012), Salaud, on t'aime (2014), Yves Saint Laurent (2014), Marguerite (2015), and Close Enemies (2018).
She received the Magritte Award for Best Actress for her work in Road to Istanbul (2016).
She is daughter of Charles-Albert Ullens de Schooten Whettnall (1927-2006) and his wife Countess Madeleine Berndotte (b. 1938). Through her maternal grandfather Prince Carl Bernadotte, she is great-great-granddaughter of King Oscar II of Sweden and Norway and King Frederick VIII of Denmark; being she a third cousin of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, second cousin of King Philippe of Belgium and Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg and second cousin, once removed, of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and Queen Anne-Marie of Greece. She is also a descendant of King George II of Great Britain and King William I of the Netherlands.
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Germaine Deschanel
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Catherine
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Emmanuelle
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Hélène Dewallon
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Inès de Crécy
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Head of the narcotics squad
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Louise d'Héricourt
After the French defeat of summer 1940, Addi Ba, a young Senegalese rifleman escapes and hides in the Vosges. Aided by some villagers, he gets false documents that allow him to live openly.
Elisabeth
Elisabeth lives a quiet live in the Belgian countryside with her young adult daughter Elodie. After the divorce from her husband Elisabeth took care of her daughter on her own. When Elodie disappears over night and Elisabeth discovers that she travelled to Syria to join the Islamic State, she begins her journey to find her daughter.
Françoise Bellaire
Paris in the 1920s. Marguerite Dumont is a wealthy woman with a passion for music and the opera. For years, she has performed regularly for a circle of guests. But Marguerite sings tragically out of tune and no one has ever told her. Her husband and her close friends have always encouraged her in her illusions. Things become very complicated the day she gets it into her head to perform in front of a genuine public, at the Opera.
A soulful examination of two defeated middle-aged characters who aren't sure that life holds the possibility of a second act.
Sharon
A washed up Hollywood director is trapped in a remote castle by his own fears until the arrival of a mysterious woman offers him possible salvation. Inspired by Dostoevsky's 'Notes from the Underground', Johnny Walker attempts to answer the burning question: Is living a long life vulgar, immoral or just plain bad manners?
L'ex-femme de José
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Yvonne de Peyerimhoff
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La femme
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Sophie Goffin
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The head of a giant European investment bank desperately clings to power when an American hedge fund company tries to buy them out.
Elisabeth
Elisabeth, a Catholic mother and a loving wife, dedicates her life to the service of others. Her life changes when she discovers that her son is being molested by a priest.
Monica Wabski
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La vampire mariée
Vincent Lannoo’s ‘mockumentary’ shows us a community of vampires in Belgium. The two ‘parents’ of the family are George and Bertha, who have two teenage children – or rather, they raise two former humans who they turned into vampires. Son Samson is a bit of a jack the lad: enjoying the sexual freedom of vampire life, with all the vigour of an irresponsible young adult regardless of consequences (even incest is not frowned upon in their world, where the word ‘wife’ is often synonymous with ‘mother’ or ‘sister’). Daughter Grace yearns for humanity in a different way: applying fake tan to get rid of her vampiric pallor, dressing in pink clothes, wishing she could feel emotion and even having a human boyfriend.
Ysé
The lives of a blind young girl and a woman collide in a dystopian future.
