Marcel Van Heerden

He was born in 1952 in South Africa. His father Stellenbosch was a director. His mother Marie van Heerden was an actress. He has one brother, Johann van Heerden.[2]

He is married to the singer Juliana Venter. Marcel met Juliana during the working in the performance group 'Mud Ensemble' in the 1990s. The couple has one son, Vincent.[2]

Marcel studied drama at the University of Stellenbosch Drama Department. Then he moved to the University of Cape Town Drama Department and studied under renowned artists Robert Mohr and Mavis Taylor. Meanwhile, he qualified with a Bilingual Performers Diploma in Speech and Drama in 1975. He later become one of the first Afrikaans actors to work consistently in the anti-apartheid theater plays: The Space and The Market Theater.[2]

He made notable appearances in the films such as Mapantsula, The Flyer, White Wedding, Durban Poison, Long Walk to Freedom, Pad na Jou Hart and n Pawpaw vir my Darling. In the meantime, he also joined with several television serials such as Konings, Onder Draai die Duiwel Rond and The Outcast.[2][3]

Apart from acting, he is also a prolific voice artist and dubbing director. In 2015, he wrote and directed the short film Vryslag was chosen as the Best Short Film at 2015's Silwerskermfees Festival in Cape Town. In 2013, he transformed the short Vryslag as a radio drama, which won the Sanlam-RSG Award at Radio Playwright Competition.[2]

• Marcel Van Heerden at IMDb