After having studied singing at the department for improvising musician
of the Conversatorium in Amsterdam for two years, she began to miss the
theater and stepped over to the Academie voor Kleinkunst.
At the academy she met the writer/director Ad de Bont, who helped her
searching for an own theater form. This resulted in the music theater
production Het Ritueel, for which she got the
Creativiteitsprijs.
Besides being an actress, she is also a singer. She has especially sung
jazz, among other things including the group Several Singers and with
Het Paradise Regained Orchestra conducted by the late Nedly
Elstak.
Furthermore she danced in the opera De materie of Louis Andriessen,
under direction of Robert Wilson.
In 1988 she won a shared second prize at the Festival Le Grand Prix du
Theatre. She was a taxi driver in the movie Honneponnetje of director
Ruud van Hemert and played in Gemene verhalen on Veronica (a Dutch TV
channel).