Background
Joris" mother is a non-western sociologist and his father is a documentary film-maker.
Joris" mother is a non-western sociologist and his father is a documentary film-maker.
He first acted aged 7 in a Dutch film called "Oeroeg" ("Going Home") shot in Indonesia. While at school in the Netherlands he acted in independent films and on television After finishing secondary school he moved to the United Kingdom to attend drama school in London (LAPA). After occasional film parts and, from 2000 onwards, some English language stage roles, he was given the part of Morris Fischer in the popular and long-running Dutch soap opera "Goede Tijden, Slechte Tijden" ("Good Times, Bad Times"), which he played from 2004 until the end of 2006.
Currently he plays in two television series: "The Sportlets" and "Puppy Patrol".
He has developed his own programme for young people "Green Dream District" about new sustainable inventions which will show on "National Geographic" Youth from January 2009. Film/Video Going Home (aka Oeroeg) (1993) Pest (1996) Emergency Exit (2001) Efteling Fairy Tales (2005) As Himself Dancing on Ice (Dutch version) (2007).