Jacques Bessenger
Acting
Biography
Jacques Bessenger is a South African actor best known for his role as Renier de Kock in the SABC2 drama series Erfsondes, from 2009-2012. He also played the role of Matthew Dekker in the SABC2 mini-series Huis van Liefde, in March 2008.
Born: February 6, 1980
Known For
Stiekyt
James is an actor with a failed career. When he is offered an opportunity to earn a little extra by performing as a drag queen at a club, he accepts. His wife finds out and a row is unavoidable. James is ready to do anything to save his marriage, to prove that the role he has been entrusted with at the club is perfectly honourable and he is in high regard. He also has to apply his best acting skills when an investigation into the suspicious murder of the club’s diva is opened.
Blindelings
René is a brilliant, blind pianist with synesthesia. She "sees" unique colors when experiencing music, voices and emotions, but after an assualt on the night of her first solo performance, her life changes instantly.
Hartklop
A group of brilliant newly graduated doctors are thrown together in the corridors of the Beyers Naudé Academic Hospital, where they perform miracles to save the lives of their patients - regardless of the cost to themselves.
Erfsondes
A South African Afrikaans series about broken families and the lies and deceit within them and how sins committed to do good can come back to haunt families when they least expect it.
Projek Dina
A south African series that takes place in the work and life environment of the emergency response task force, where the pressure is sky high and the room for error is tiny. Now that the task force has just been set up by the Western Cape police - as a way to combat the rapidly increasing cases of missing persons in South Africa - the members of the task force have a seemingly impossible task at hand: to find the missing persons in Cape Town and bring them home one by one.
Fynskrif
A legal drama that revolves around the law firm Van Wyk & Vennote, in which the lawyers must handle both their legal cases and their personal and family dramas.
Een Keer Om Die Son
Over the course of a year, the Van Wyk's mourn the loss of a loved one and struggle with divorce, illness, forgiveness, high school and secrets as they heal and find each other again.
Song Vir Katryn
Song vir Katryn is a modern romantic drama about Jinx, an M.D. and musican, who falls in love with Katryn, a woman with a dark and mysterious past.
Sink
‘Sink’ tells the story of Rachel, a Mozambican domestic worker based in Johannesburg, who is forced to make a devastating choice after her daughter drowns whilst under the care of her employer; return to poverty stricken Mozambique or continue working for the family responsible for the death of her child so she can support her extended family back home. The story is a haunting exploration of motherhood, loss and the walls that separate people.
Getroud Met Rugby
Getroud met Rugby is a drama revolving around four stars of a Johannesburg rugby team and their wives as they become involved in various interconnected scandals.
Filmography
as Desmond
as Wikus
as Bartender
as Dries Fourie
as Dr. Ruan van Wyk
as Ryno Mans
as Paul Scholtz
as Gustav
as Dr. Daniël Strydom
as Jaco
as Jay-C le Roux
as Adrian Hugo
as Wynand Oosthuizen
as Lou
as Stian
as Reverend Engelbrecht
as Jaco Kruger
as Pieter Van Meerhof
as Xavier
as Slagyster Fourie
as Alex Kruger
as Rudolf 'Rudi' du Preez
as Phil Blignaut
as Chris Jordaan
as Jan-Paul Otto Snr
as Pieter Britz / Prof Hathoorn
as Dirk de Witt
as Robert Machlachlan
as Armand
as Thomas
as Renier de Kock
as Mossie