Reinout Oerlemans
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| Reinout Oerlemans | |
| Born | May 10, 1971 Mill, Netherlands |
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| Nationality | Dutch |
| Occupation | Actor, television presenter, television producer |
| Net worth | €75 million |
| Partner | Daniëlle Overgaag |
| Children | Thijmen James (2001), Fiene Joan (2004), Benjamin Jack (2006) |
Reinout Oerlemans (born June 10, 1971) is a Dutch soap opera actor, television presenter and television producer. He is the founder of the tv production company Eyeworks.
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[edit] Personal life
Reinout Oerlemans was born on June 10, 1971 in Mill in the Netherlands.
Oerlemans has together with his partner, Daniëlle Overgaag, three children: son Thijmen James (2001), daughter Fiene Joan (2004) and son Bejamin Jack (2006).[1] Their son Reinout was born dead in 2003.[2] The couple announced that they will be marrying in the summer of 2008 in the Netherlands.[3]
In the beginning of December 2007 Oerlemans announced that starting summer 2008 he would relocate to Los Angeles to lead his company Eyeworks form there.[4][5]
[edit] Television career
Oerlemans became known nationally in the Netherlands when he played Arnie Alberts in the long standing soap series Goede tijden, slechte tijden, which he did from 1990 until 1996. After his success as Arnie, he focussed on presenting television shows. He presented shows like Heartbreak Hotel, Gekkenhuis, Wedden dat, Idols, and his own talkshow Pulse.
In 2001, Oerlemans founded his own television production company, Eyeworks, with popular productions like De Bauers (real life soap about Frans Bauer and his family), So you wannabe a popstar, and Test the nation which has been exported to many countries, but was first produced in the Netherlands. In 2003, he co hosted the first series of Idols.
In 2004, Oerlemans won the Zilveren Televizierster, a national prize for the male television personality of the year. In September 2005, Oerlemans moved from the commercial broadcasting company RTL, for which he worked for fifteen years, to the public broadcasting association TROS,[6] where he presents for a short while the TROS TV show, replacing tv show-legend Ivo Niehe. In December 2007, Niehe takes over again.
Oerlemans is estimated to be one of the richest men in his thirties in the Netherlands, with an estimated fortune of 75 million euro.
