Carice Anouk van Houten, born on September 5, 1976, is a Dutch stage and film actress. One of Europe's most celebrated actresses, Carice van Houten is perhaps best known as 'Melisandre' in the iconic TV show Game of Thrones, a performance for which she has been recognized with an Emmy Award nomination in 2019. Other projects include Paul Verhoeven's award-winning Black Book and Bryan Singer's Valkyrie opposite Tom Cruise and as Melisandre on Game of Thrones. Recent projects include Instinct and Temple, a TV show for Sky opposite Mark Strong, which has been picked up for a second season. Her Dutch-language feature Love Life, gained her further critical acclaim and broke box office records in her native Holland. Her next film Happy Housewive won her a record breaking 5th Golden Calf at The Netherlands Film Festival and was voted 'Best Dutch Actress of All Time' by the Dutch audience. Other awards include Best Actress for Black Butterflies at the Tribeca Film Festival and the Best Performance award for Instinct at the Les Arcs Film Festival 2019. Her credits include Juan Carlos Fresnadillo's Intruders and Bill Condon's The Fifth Estate, the Jesse Owens biopic, Race, with Jason Sudekis and Jeremy Irons and voiced a character in The Simpsons. She can also be seen in Brian de Palma's Domino and in Brimstone, opposite Dakota Fanning, Guy Pearce and Kit Harrington, and The Glass Room, with Claes Bang. She played a leading role in Halina Reijn's directorial feature debut Instinct, opposite Marwan Kenzari (Aladdin), which won the Variety Piazza Grande Award in Locarno Film Festival 2019. Instinct is the first outing for the Carice and Halina's production banner, Man Up.

Filmography

• 2026A Family — Maria, Executive Producer
• Malice — Nat Tanner
• 2025Miss Moxy — Pink (voice)
• 2024Grandpa Cor
• 2024Quota — (voice)
• 2023Occupied City — Narrator (2024 version)
• Dangerous Liaisons — Jacqueline de Montrachet
• 2020Lost Girls & Love Hotels — Ines
• Red Light — Sylvia Steenhuyzen, Creator
• 2019Domino — Alex Boe
• 2019Instinct — Nicoline
• Temple — Anna
• 2019The Glass Room — Hana
• 2016Brimstone — Anna
• 2016Incarnate — Lindsey
• 2016Race — Leni Riefenstahl
• 2015Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience — Melisandre
• 2015Holland: The Living Delta — Narrator (voice)
• 2013The Fifth Estate — Birgitta Jonsdottir
• 2012Family Way — Winnie de Roover
• 2012Jackie — Sofie
• 2011Black Butterflies — Ingrid Jonker
• Game of Thrones — Melisandre
• 2011Intruders — Susanna
• 2010Black Death — Langiva
• In therapie — Aya
• 2010Kleinste Kortste Film — Woman
• 2010Otto Frank, the Father of Anne — Diary fragments (voice-over)
• 2010Repo Men — Carol
• 2010The Happy Housewife — Lea Meijer
• 2009From Time to Time — Maria Oldknow
• 2009Gewoon Hans — Carice van Houten
• 2009Stricken — Carmen
• Van Der Vorst Ziet Sterren
• 2008Dorothy Mills — Jane Van Dopp
• 2008Valkyrie — Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg
• 2007Love Is All — Kiki Jollema
• 2006A Thousand Kisses — Samarinde
• 2006Black Book — Rachel Stein / Ellis de Vries
• Koppensnellers — Georgina Verbaan
• Pauw & Witteman
• 2005Black Swans — Marleen
• 2005Bonkers — Lis
• De Wereld Draait Door — Self, zelf
• 2005Spoon — Juffrouw Broer
• 2003Father's Affair — Monika
• Acteurs, De — Ellie
• 2001AmnesiA — Sandra
• Luifel & Luifel — Roos
• 2001Miss Minoes — Minoes
• 2001Storm in mijn hoofd — Titania
• 1999Suzy Q — Suzy
• 1998Ivoren wachters
• The Simpsons — Annika Van Houten (voice)
• Zomergasten

Appearances as themselves (5)

• A Beautiful Mess — Self - Host / Jury
• 2016Verhoeven Versus Verhoeven — Self - Actress
• 2015Game of Thrones: Spanish Kingdom Special — Self
• 2015The Magic of the Diary of Anne Frank — Self
• German Film Award — Self