Manouk Pluis (Netherlands,1999) is an upcoming Dutch actress and dancer. She graduated in 2021 from the Institute of Performative Arts in Maastricht as an actress. She has played in series, such as Knokke Off (2023, Netflix) and Jonge Garde (2015, Disney Channel TV). In 2017, she starred in the 48-hour film project Coquille, which was showcased at the Cannes Film Festival. She received the Best Actress Award for her performance in Coquille (2017, 48hour project). Manouk has also participated in various Dutch theater productions. Her graduation work, SKIN (2021), a dance performance self-written and directed, toured throughout the Netherlands. Manouk is currently working on her first documentary.
Manouk's career as an actress started in 1980 after the Theater school Herman Teirlinck in Antwerp, Belgium. She also has been trained and following Masterclasses by Warren Robertson, Jack Waltzer, Delia Salvia and Candice Darra in Amsterdam and NY. Between 1997 and 2001 she studied at the Actor Centre in London. In 2007 she attended the full year acting training Trappan in Goteborg, Sweden. She lived and worked in Holland, the UK and Sweden where she played the lead role in more than 50 Films and TV series, like the BBC series 'A Touch of Frost' and 'Close Relations. Manouk appeared as the female lead next to Tom Hulce and Jeroen Krabbe in 'The Shadowman', directed by the Polish director Piotr Andrejev. Also she was seen as Celine, 'The Dragon Catcher' in 'Kingdom'. Next to her TV and Film parts she performed on stage. She played till example Amanda in Jean Anouilh's Leocadia. In Sweden she was seen on stage in Chekov's 'The Three Sisters' and Strindberg's 'The Stronger'. Manouk worked in 2012 with the German director Kai Zastrow in the film 'The Lucky One Lost.' In 2013 she appeared again on stage and was touring in the Netherlands with the play 'Eindeloos'. In 2014 she took on the lead role of Rebecca Johansson in the Dutch Net5 series 'Fashion Planet'. 2015 she traveled to Japan to shoot the documentary 'In the Footsteps of Nichiren', which was seen on the Dutch Television. Recently she played supporting parts in 'West of Liberty', and Emma in the action film 'Kill Mode', which will be released in 2019. Manouk is a professional writer. She has been attending Robert McKee script writing workshops in London, Scriptplus in Amsterdam, Creative Writing LOI and followed a course script writing at Endemol Productions. She wrote travel articles for several Dutch magazines, columns about London for the newspaper 'Het Algemeen Dagblad' and columns for the glossy women's magazine 'Nouveau'. Her first novel, 'Zingend Riet', was published in 1997. In 2011 she interviewed musicians and crew members of The André Rieu Orchestra. The articles she consequently wrote were published in 'The Glossy André Rieu Magazine'. Her book 'De Rode Draagdoek' will be published at Uitgeverij Aspekt in autumn 2019. Manouk is also an adequate voice over artist. She speaks fluent Dutch, English and Swedish, and workable German and French.
Actress, singer, born as the 3rd child of a Manouche Sinti mother and a German-American father, had her first movie appearance as "Ariana" in "M-Inspiration" (1998) and "Engagement" (1998). After playing killer "Lucretia" in the unfinished Belgian action movie "Time to Kill" (1999) she appeared in a minor role in'Vivian Naefe''s _ " Einer geht noch' (2000)_ (TV) closely followed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet'''s Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (2001). Frequent TV and movie appearances established Manoush in the film industry all over Europe and after 2006 in the USA as well. Besides acting Manoush works on her own songs after, in the early 90s, being discovered by German producer Jörg Pasler, who was fascinated by her lyrics and her guttural, sometimes coarse voice and her way of interpreting songs.
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