Grietje Vanderheijden

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Grietje Vanderheijden - headshot

Grietje Vanderheijden (born 1978) is a Belgian actress. She studied music at the conservatories of Brussels & Antwerp (Belgium). During and after her studies she appeared in multiple Belgian musicals such as "Cinderella", "The Wizard of Oz", "Sleeping Beauty", "Pinocchio", "Robin Hood" and "Peter Pan", in which she played the role of Tigerlilly and understudy for Wendy.

1 Television
2 Theatre and music
3 Miscellaneous
4 Trivia
5 Filmography
6 External sites
7 References

[edit] Television

In 2003 Vanderheijden "crossed over" to television. Since than she has been playing the role of "Vicky Muys", the girlfriend/wife of Rikki Dilliarkis (Steven De Lelie) in the Belgian hit series "Lili & Marleen" on VTM (Belgian Channel).

Vanderheijden has also played guestparts in a.o. Belgian hit-series: "Rupel", "Flikken", "Spoed" and the teen series "W817". She also landed one of the leading roles of the youth series "En daarmee, Basta!" on Ketnet, where she plays Isa De Riemacker. Isa is a teen with too much time on her hands, too many boyfriends and who needs a lot of parental advice, even though she's not always willing to take it.

Vanderheijden also teaches theatre and drama at the Stedelijke conservatorium van Mechelen, a Belgian city.

[edit] Theatre and music

Ever since she started her studies, Vanderheijden has been doing leading roles & protagonist parts in Belgian musicals. She also sings in the KETNET-band and the Kids Power Team, which is specifically aimed for children. During the summer of 2006 she has been on different stages throughout Belgium to entertain hordes of children and people.

[edit] Miscellaneous

In 2006, she also participated in the show "Steracteur, Sterartiest" on ÉÉN, a show where 13 Belgian actors & actresses try to find out which one of them isn't only a good actor, but also a good singer. In the first episode she sang "Denis (Denee)" by Blondie, a difficult song which wasn't received well by judges Eric Meelaerts, Geena Lisa & Peter Koelewijn but she managed to get to the second round where she sang the song "Be My Baby" (originally by Vanessa Paradis). Even though it was a good performance, and she received good commentaries both on her singing and her legs, the Flemish people didn't let her pass this time. She was nominated together with young "De Kampioenen" actor Rob Theuwen to leave the show. In the end, she was the one to leave and she didn't get the chance to sing "Still the One", originally by Shania Twain.

Grietje Vanderheijden promoshot for TV-show “Steracteur, Sterartiest”

[edit] Trivia

Grietje has a boyfriend
they are currently living together
she has a labrador dog named LOPKE
she digs chocolate and marsepin
celebrates her birthday in october
took part in the winter commercial of Meubelen Gaverzicht
is part of the Ketnetband
She has two brothers and a sister
entered the show "Steracteur, Sterartiest" on behalf of the charity fund UNICEF
is now an official youth-ambassador of UNICEF to educate youngsters about the goals and working area of UNICEF
Was on the 2006 Antwerp Bookfair, signing autographs
has (according to Geena Lisa) long, pretty legs
landed her first big role as Vicky Muys in the hit-series "Lili & Marleen"
has just finished the filming of the youth series "En Daarmee, Basta!" in which she plays Isa De Riemaecker
Turned up in the Newyear celebration on [één] as one of the guests
likes Japanese food
dislikes cold; being late
favorite band is coldplay
once, while performing with the ketnetband, grietje, very sure of herself, danced one way...the wrong way...the band went the other way and started laughing