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Monique Sluyter (1967) is a Dutch glamour model, TV presenter and actress. She posed five times for Playboy Magazine.

Monique Sluyter was born in 1967 in Sneek, The Netherlands. She was dicovered during a beauty contest. Sluyter moved to Milan, where she appeared as a dancer in TV shows. She was a sexy hostess in the Italian game show Colpo grosso/Tutti Frutti (1987-1988) and was one of the assistants of presenter Hugo Egon Balder. She returned to the Netherlands and presented the TV show Erotica, and also became a Playboy model, and posed five times for the magazine. In one of the sessions, she was bodypainted by artist Herman Brood.

Monique Sluyter also appeared on Dutch television in the soap Goudkust/Gold Coast (1998-1999). On television, she also appeared in such reality shows as Big Brother VIPS (2000) and BIg Brother Hotel (2006). Sluyter made her film debut in Langer licht/Northern Light (David Lammers, 2006) opposite Raymond Thiry, for which she received good reviews. She also could be seen in bit roles in Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (Mike Bigelow, 2005) en Deiji/Daisy (Andrew Lau, 2008). Monique Sluyter is now the director of her own model agency.

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German singer, songwriter, and actress Nina Hagen (1955) is known for her theatrical vocals and is often referred to as the ‘Godmother of Punk due to her prominence during the punk and new wave movements in the late 1970s and early 1980s. During her 40-years-career she appeared in several European films.

Catharina ’Nina’ Hagen was born in 1955) in the former East Berlin, German Democratic Republic. She was the daughter of scriptwriter Hans Hagen and actress and singer Eva-Maria Hagen (née Buchholz). Her paternal grandfather died in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp (her father was Jewish). Her parents divorced when she was two years old, and growing up, she saw her father infrequently. At age four, she began to study ballet, and was considered an opera prodigy by the time she was nine. When Hagen was 11, her mother married Wolf Biermann, an anti-establishment singer-songwriter. Biermann's political views later influenced young Hagen. Hagen left school at age sixteen and went to Poland, where she began her career. She later returned to Germany and joined the cover band, Fritzens Dampferband (Fritzen's Steamboat Band). She added songs by Janis Joplin and Tina Turner to the ‘allowable’ set lists during shows. From 1972 to 1973, Hagen enrolled in the crash-course performance program at The Central Studio for Light Music in East Berlin. Upon graduating, she formed the band Automobil and released in 1974 the single Du hast den Farbfilm vergessen (You Forgot the Colour Film), a subtle dig mocking the sterile, gray, Communist state. Nina became one of the country's best-known young stars. She also appeared in several East-German films and TV films sometimes alongside her mother Eva-Maria Hagen, including Heiraten/Weiblich/Marrying/Female (Christa Kulosa, 1975), Heute ist Freitag/Today is Friday (Klaus Gendries, 1975), Liebesfallen/Love Traps (Werner W. Wallroth, 1976) and Unser stiller Mann/Our Quite Man (Bernhard Stephan, 1976). Her career in the GDR was cut short after her stepfather Wolf Biermann's East German citizenship was withdrawn from him in 1976. Hagen and her mother followed him westwards to Hamburg. The circumstances surrounding the family's emigration were exceptional: Biermann was granted permission to perform a televised concert in Cologne, but denied permission to re-cross the border to his adopted home country.

Nina Hagen was offered a record deal from CBS Records. Her label advised her to acclimatise herself to Western culture through travel, and she arrived in London during the height of the punk rock movement. Hagen was quickly taken up by a circle that included The Slits and Sex Pistols. Back in Germany by mid-1977, Hagen formed the Nina Hagen Band in West Berlin's Kreuzberg district. In 1978 they released their self-titled debut album, Nina Hagen Band, which included the single TV-Glotzer (a cover of White Punks on Dope by The Tubes, though with entirely different German lyrics), and Auf'm Bahnhof Zoo, about West Berlin's then-notorious Berlin Zoologischer Garten station. The album also included a version of Rangehn (Go for It), a song she had previously recorded in East Germany, but with different music. The album received critical acclaim for its hard rock sound and for Hagen's theatrical vocals, far different from the straightforward singing of her East German recordings. It was a commercial success selling over 250,000 copies. Relations between Hagen and the other band members deteriorated over the course of the subsequent European tour. The band released one more album Unbehagen (Unease) before their break-up in 1979. It included the single African Reggae and Wir Leben Immer... Noch, a German language cover of Lene Lovich's Lucky Number. Meanwhile, Hagen's public persona was steadily creating media uproar. She starred in two films. In Germany she made the experimental film Bildnis Einer Trinkerin/Portrait of a Female Drunkard (Ulrike Ottinger, 1979) with Tabea Blumenschein, Magdalena Montezuma and Eddie Constantine. She also acted with Dutch rocker Herman Brood and singer Lene Lovich in the Dutch film Cha Cha (Herbert Curiel, 1979). Brood and Hagen would have a long romantic relationship that would end when Hagen could no longer tolerate Brood's drug abuse. She would refer to Brood as her ‘soulmate’ long after Brood committed suicide in 2001. In late 1980, Hagen discovered she was pregnant, broke up with the father-to-be the Dutch guitarist Ferdinand Karmelk, who died in 1988, and she moved to Los Angeles. Her daughter, Cosma Shiva Hagen, was born in Santa Monica in 1981. In 1982, Hagen signed a new contract with CBS and released her debut solo album NunSexMonkRock, a dissonant mix of punk, funk, reggae, and opera. Her first English-language album became also her first record to chart in the United States. She then went on a world tour with the No Problem Orchestra. Her next album the Giorgio Moroder-produced Fearless (1983), generated two major club hits in America, Zarah (a cover of the Zarah Leander song Ich weiss, es wird einmal ein Wunder geschehen) and the disco/punk/opera song, New York New York, which reached no. 9 in the USA dance charts. She followed this with one more album, Nina Hagen in Ekstasy (1985), which featured a 1979 recording of her hardcore punk take on Paul Anka's My Way. The album fared less well and her contract with CBS expired in 1986 and was not renewed. Hagen's public appearances became stranger and frequently included discussions of God, UFOs, her social and political beliefs, animal rights and vivisection, and claims of alien sightings. In 1987 she released the Punk Wedding EP independently, a celebration of her marriage to a 18-year-old punk South African nicknamed 'Iroquois'.

In 1989, Nina Hagen was offered a record deal from Mercury Records. She released three albums on the label: Nina Hagen (1989), Street (1991), and Revolution Ballroom (1993). However, none of the albums achieved notable commercial success. In 1989 she had a relationship with Frank Chevallier from France, with whom she has a son, Otis Chevallier-Hagen (b. 1990). In 1992 Hagen became the host of a TV show on RTLplus. She also collaborated with Adamski on the single Get Your Body (1992). In the 1990s, Hagen lived in Paris with her daughter Cosma Shiva and son Otis. In 1996, she married David Lynn, who is fifteen years younger, but divorced him in the beginning of 2000. In 1999, Hagen became the host of Sci-Fright, a weekly science fiction show on the British Sci-Fi Channel. In 1999, she played the role of Celia Peachum in The Threepenny Opera by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, alongside Max Raabe. She also appeared as a witch in the German-Russian fairy-tale film Vasilisa (Elena Shatalova, 2000). At IMDb, Howard Roarschawks writes: “I saw this eye-popping film at the 2001 Sarasota Film Festival. I entered the theater without expectations, having chosen the film randomly. From shot one, my jaw dropped slack and my eyes waxed wide. Vasilisa is a gorgeously filmed, brilliantly scripted, boldly acted, confidently directed, lushly designed masterpiece of unseen cinema.” Hagen made her musical comeback with the release of her album Return of the Mother (2000). In 2001 she collaborated with Rosenstolz and Marc Almond on the single Total eclipse/Die schwarze Witwe that reached no. 22 in Germany. Later albums include Big Band Explosion (2003), in which she sang numerous swing covers with her then husband, Danish singer and performer, Lucas Alexander. This was followed by Heiß, a greatest hits album. The following album, Journey to the Snow Queen, is more of an audio book — she reads the Snow Queen fairy tale with Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker in the background. Besides her musical career, Hagen is also a voice-over actress. She dubbed the voice of Sally in Der Albtraum vor Weihnachten, the German release of Tim Burton's The Nightmare before Christmas (1993), and she has also done voice work on the German animation film Hot Dogs: Wau - wir sind reich!/Millionaire Dogs (Michael Schoemann, 1999). She appeared as the Queen opposite Otto Waalkes and her daughter Cosma Shiva Hagen as Snowwhite in the comedy7 Zwerge – Männer allein im Wald/7 Dwarves – Men Alone in the Wood (Sven Unterwaldt Jr., 2004) which follows the fairytale by the Brothers Grimm. It was the second most popular film in German cinemas in 2004, reaching an audience of almost 7 million. She returned in the sequel 7 Zwerge – Der Wald ist nicht genug/Seven Dwarves - The Forest Is Not Enough (Sven Unterwaldt, 2006). She wrote three autobiographies: Ich bin ein Berliner (1988), Nina Hagen: That's Why the Lady Is a Punk (2003), and Bekenntnisse (2010). She is also noted for her human and animal rights activism. After a four-year lapse Nina Hagen released the album Personal Jesus in 2010. William Ruhlmann at AllMusic: “Personal Jesus, which featured 13 faith-based tracks that dutifully blend rock, blues, soul, and gospel into a sound that’s distinctly hers.” It was followed by Volksbeat (2011). Her latest films are Desire Will Set You Free (Yony Leyser, 2015) with Amber Benson and Rosa von Praunheim and Gutterdämmerung (Bjorn Tagemose, 2016) with Henry Rollins, Grace Jones and Iggy Pop.

Sources: William Ruhlmann (AllMusic), Wikipedia and IMDb.

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Monique van de Ven (1952) is a Dutch actress and director. With her film debut in Paul Verhoeven's Turks fruit/Turkish Delight (1973), she was an international sensation. Although she appeared in some international films, she was mainly active in Dutch cinema and television.

Monica Maria Theresia van de Ven was born in 1952 in Zeeland, The Netherlands. Her father died when she was five years old. After successful attempts to cheer up her mother, Van de Ven decided to become an actress. She attended the Theater School in Maastricht for one year and was picked from there in 1972 for her first film. Monique van de Ven made her film debut in Turks fruit/Turkish Delight (1973), directed by Paul Verhoeven and filmed by Jan de Bont. The film is a love story of an artist and a young woman, based on the novel 'Turks fruit' by Jan Wolkers. This film was a massive success at the Dutch box office and an immediate breakthrough for her acting career. Turks fruit/Turkish Delight was nominated for an Academy Award and was chosen as the best Dutch film of the century. Her next film with Verhoeven and Hauer, Keetje Tippel/Cathy Tippel (Paul Verhoeven, 1975) was another box-office smash. The film is based on the memoirs of Neel Doff and was the most expensive Dutch film produced up to that time. The film was the number one film in the Netherlands for 1975 with nearly 2 million admissions. In the following years, she appeared in such international films as the German crime drama Anita Drögemöller und die Ruhe an der Ruhr/Peace on the Ruhr River (Alfred Vohrer, 1976) with Harald Leipnitz, the Australian mockumentary musical action film Stunt Rock (Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1978) starring Grant Page, and an episode of the American TV series Starsky and Hutch (1978). However, her Dutch films were more satisfying and successful. A success was Een vrouw als Eva/A Woman Like Eve (Nouchka van Brakel, 1979), a drama film about a woman who leaves her husband for another woman, played by Maria Schneider. Another successful drama was Ademloos/Breathless (Mady Saks, 1982) with Linda van Dyck.

Thirteen years after Turks fruit, Monique van de Ven played in the Oscar-winning war drama De Aanslag/The Assault (Fons Rademakers, 1985) with Derek de Lint. Van de Ven played two different roles in the film, one after the war (De Lint's first wife) and one in the war (a woman who participated in the assault and whom the lead character meets later the same night in a dark police cell). Other well-received films were Iris (Mady Saks, 1987), the slasher film Amsterdamned (Dick Maas, 1988) with Huub Stapel, and the drama Romeo (Rita Horst, 1990) with Johan Leysen. Apart from acting in feature films Monique van de Ven also performs in Dutch television series, such as Dokter Deen (2012-2018). In 1996 she directed the short film Mama's Proefkonijn/Mama's Guinea Pig. Her first feature film as a director was Zomerhitte/Summer Heat (2008). From 1973 until 1988 Monique van de Ven was married to Dutch cinematographer and director Jan de Bont, with whom she lived in Los Angeles for a number of years. She is now married to actor and writer Edwin de Vries. They have two children. The oldest son, Nino, died of meningitis at the very young age of 20 months. Their youngest son, Sam, played in 2018 with his father in the play 'Westerborkserenade' about the resistance acts of his grandfather, film actor Rob de Vries, in the Second World War. Van de Ven received a Golden Calf award three times. In 1984 for her entire oeuvre, in 1990 for Best Actress in the film Romeo and in 2018 for the Golden Calf for Film Culture.

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Dutch tenor Willy Alberti (1926-1985) sang in Dutch and Italian. The internationally popular ‘Tenore Napolitano’ was also an actor, and radio and TV personality.

Willy Alberti was born as Carel Verbrugge in Amsterdam, The Netherlands in 1926. He was the third of eight children born to Jacobus Willem Verbrugge and Sophia Jacoba van Musscher. One of his cousins, Jantje van Musscher, would also become a popular Amsterdam singer under the stage name Johnny Jordaan. At the time, de Jordaan was a famous working-class neighbourhood in the heart of Amsterdam. In 1931, the 5-year-old Carel made his singing debut. From then on, he sang on street corners, often with his cousin Jantje. He began recording professionally in the early 1940s as 'Willy Alberti Tenore Napolitano'. He married Hendrika Geertruida 'Ria' Kuiper in 1944, and his daughter Willeke Alberti was born a year later. In 1950 followed son Tonny Alberti. After the war, Alberti established himself in the Netherlands with hits like Ik zing dit lied voor jou alleen (1946, I Sing This Song For You Alone), Veel mooier dan het mooiste schilderij (1946, More beautiful than any picture) and Droomland (1950, Dreamland). In the 1940s he also worked as an actor in popular stage dramas by Henvo (Henk Voogd) a.o.

In the 1950s Willy Alberti became increasingly popular with his Italian songs. He often performed them on the Duch radio in the popular show De bonte dinsdagavondtrein (The colorful Tuesday evening train). In 1958 he made his debut on Dutch television in the show of the legendary Dutch clown Dorus. Alberti had a string of hits, including 'Ci-ciu-ci' (1955), 'Vivere' (1955), 'Nel blu dipinto di blu/Volare' (1958), 'Come prima' (1958), the #1 hit 'Piove' (1959), 'Una marcia infa' (1959), and another #1 hit, 'Marina' (1959). As Guillermo Alberti or Gino Fattori he was also internationally well known. His version of 'Marina' was the first Dutch hit to reach the Billboard Hot 100 in the USA. Alberti played a part as a café owner in the successful Dutch film Rififi in Amsterdam (John Korporaal aka Giovanni Korporaal, 1963) starring Maxim Hamel and Johan Kaart. However, his film appearances were only incidental. In a duet with his daughter Willeke Alberti, he scored hits on the Dutch charts like 'Sei rimasta sola' (1963) and 'Sabato sera' (1964). Solo, he had another #1 hit with 'Buono notte bambino' (1963). From 1965 father and daughter presented a popular monthly television show at the public broadcasting station AVRO. During the 1960s, Alberti won twice the prestigious Edison Award.

In the 1970s, Willy Alberti's fame began to recede, though he did score a few hits, including 'Juliana bedankt' (1980, Thanks Juliana), a tribute to former Queen Juliana, and another duet with daughter Willeke, 'Niemand laat z'n eigen kind alleen' (1983, Nobody leaves his child alone). He also played another small part in a film, Rooie Sien/Red Sien (Frans Weisz, 1975), which featured his daughter Willeke Alberti as Sien. He started a record store, where his son Tonny worked. In 1984 Willy Alberti was diagnosed with liver cancer, and he died the next year at the age of only 58. He was cremated at the Westgaarde Crematorium in Amsterdam. A Willy Alberti museum was founded by his wife in 1997 to commemorate him. It was opened in 2001 in the centre of Amsterdam, but it closed due to a lack of interest. Willy's grandson Johnny de Mol is now a well-known actor and TV personality in the Netherlands. He acted in several films, including Paul Verhoeven's Zwartboek/Black Book (2006).

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What a shock! David Bowie is dead. The English musician and actor was a major pop star for over four decades. During the 1970s, he was a magnificent innovator, we love his album Changes. With various stage and film roles, he showed to be a fine actor too. Bowie died of cancer, 69 years young.

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