Annie Bos
Actor, Film actor
1886 – 1975
Who was Annie Bos?
Johanna "Annie" Bos was a Dutch theater and silent film actress, known as Holland's first movie star and diva.
Bos started her acting career in Antwerp, but soon returned to the Netherlands and made her theater debut in 1909. She played mostly bit parts, until she was discovered by movie director Maurits Binger. Binger had just opened his movie studio Hollandia and contracted Bos as the leading lady of the movies. She made her first film appearance in the film De Levende Ladder. Over the next years, she became a well recognized actress, being nicknamed "the Dutch Asta Nielsen".
In 1916, Bos starred in Majoor Frans and became Holland's first star. She got opportunities to choose her own film roles and attempted to prove her acting skills by playing roles with opposite characters. However, when Hollandia neared bankruptcy in 1920, the studio was renewed and the new movie directors fired Bos, saying she was too old. Bos was offered a contract in the United States, where she was known for her role in the Dutch film Een Carmen van het Noorden, which was released internationally.
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- Born
- Dec 10, 1886
Amsterdam - Also known as
- Johanna "Annie" Bos
- Dutch Asta Nielsen
- Anna Boas
- Anna Bosilova
- Johanna Bos
- Bos
- The Dutch Asta Nielsen
- Parents
- Spouses
- Cornelis Loeff
(1926/10/20 - )
- Cornelis Loeff
- Nationality
- Netherlands
- Profession
- Lived in
- Amsterdam
- Died
- Aug 3, 1975
Leiden
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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