Steven De Lelie
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Steven De Lelie (born February 25, 1977) is a Belgian actor and director. He was born in Antwerp, Belgium where he still lives today. He is about 1.85 m, that's 6'1" tall, has blonde-reddish hair and dark blue eyes.
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[edit] Roles
He is mostly known in the theatre world ("Kartonnen dozen" (=cardboard boxes)a monologue from a book with the same name by Tom Lanoye and "De Libertijn" (=The libertine"). He also has a lot of directing skills, which he proved in his first self-directed theatre piece, "the Junglebook" and a second production "Inside the Moulin Rouge".
In "Kartonnen dozen", Steven plays the part of a young man (story of Tom Lanoye himself) who's trying to figure out the way through his sexuality. In the play, 3 cardboard boxes represent 3 eras in his life which he had to overcome.
[edit] Awards
In his role of Antigone, another theatre play, he got an award for Best actor in a protagonist role during the Holland Theatre festival. Now, this young man is paving his way onto small screen television with series like Familie and Lili & Marleen.
[edit] His roles
In "Lili & Marleen", he amazed many with his part of Rikki, a young boy in the Antwerp of the '60 who finds himself falling for a girl who's not of his class, Vicky Muys, played by Grietje Vanderheijden.
In "Familie", he plays the character Bertje Vandenbossche (originally played by Mout Uytersprot). After Bertje left for China 5 years ago, he is now back being more a hard business man ánd having a Chinese girlfriend. In these years in China, he got divorced from Tineke & started working in an IT-company where he met Cixi, his current girlfriend. Also he gained confidence and is more at it for the money than for the friendships.
[edit] Filmography, on screen
Lili & Marleen...Rikki Dilliarkis
Spoed...Guest starring, Man with injury
Familie...Bertje Vandenbossche
Pitt & Kantrop... Pitt
Het Verstand van Vlaanderen (familiespecial)...himself
[edit] Stage credits
- De Libertijn- theatre play - Raamtheater Antwerp... Baronet/secretary of the encyclopedia
- Kartonnen Dozen - theatre monologue - Raamtheater Antwerp... Tom Lanoye
- Inside Moulin Rouge - theatre play - director of the play
- The Jungle Book - theatre play - director of the play
[edit] References
- Steven De Lelie at the Internet Movie Database
- Gay Belgium - Homoklassieker Kartonnen Dozen op het podium! Review of Kartonnen dozen
- Antwerpen ORadio - Steven De Lelie, ook wel gekend als “Rikki” uit Lili en Marleen, speelt vanaf 12 december in Antwerpen de monoloog Kortonnen Dozen, naar de gelijknamige roman van Tom Lanoye. Review of Kartonnen dozen
