Jan Bijvoet
Acting
Biography
Jan Bijvoet was born on December 28, 1966 in Antwerpen, Flanders, Belgium. He is an actor and composer, known for Peaky Blinders (2013), Embrace of the Serpent (2015) and Alabama Monroe (2012).
Born: December 28, 1966
Place of Birth: Antwerpen, Flanders, Belgium
Known For
Nocturnus
In the darkness of the polar night, a scientist tries to shed light on a remarkable phenomenon: an Arctic village in hibernation. When she discovers that the sleepers are all breathing synchronously, however, she slowly abandons the role of the observer.
Peaky Blinders
A gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham, England and centered on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby, who means to move up in the world.
Van Vlees en Bloed
The series focuses on the Vangenechten family of butchers. Business is going well until Rudy, the butcher couple's only son, suddenly returns home after years of absence. He refuses to say where he has been all this time, but he does want to come back home and work in the butcher shop.
Embrace of the Serpent
The epic story of the first contact, encounter, approach, betrayal and, eventually, life-transcending friendship, between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman, last survivor of his people, and two scientists that, over the course of 40 years, travel through the Amazon in search of a sacred plant that can heal them. Inspired by the journals of the first explorers of the Colombian Amazon, Theodor Koch-Grunberg and Richard Evans Schultes.
The Broken Circle Breakdown
The loss of their young daughter threatens to destroy the love and faith of two married musicians.
The Land of Women
The 1950s: in the ancient and far-off island of Sardinia, two generations of women fight against restrictive age-old traditions to reach sexual and emotional freedom.
Into the Night
When the sun suddenly starts killing everything in its path, passengers on an overnight flight from Brussels attempt to survive by any means necessary.
The Forgotten Battle
During WWII's crucial Battle of the Scheldt, the lives of a glider pilot, a Nazi soldier and a reluctant Resistance recruit tragically intersect.
Marina
The true story of Rocco Granata, an Italian coal miner's son who followed his passion for music against his father's wishes and social barriers.
Fenix
A dark world of well-organised drug crime is hidden behind the calm life of Brabant. Jara and Rens both come to discover that when upon return to their birth province after a long time. She wants to clear the name of her father, he wants to distance himself from his criminal family - but they both get terribly entangled in the web of the upper and underworld, whose boundaries are becoming increasingly blurred.
Filmography
as Potter
as Patrick
as Prince Anew
as Kapelaan Lindemann
as Pladijs
as Piotr Christian
as Groundskeeper
as Igor
as Police commissioner Jean
as Thomas
as Sergeant Major Raf
as Knud
as Atlas
as Biko
as Doctor Visser
as Foreigner
as King
as Rik
as Father
as Frank
as Flik
as Oscar
as Leo
as Radic
as Sev Herzof
as Minos
as Stef
as Theodor Koch-Grunberg
as Police Inspector #1
as Grand Duke Leon Petrovna
as Camiel Borgman
as Koen
as JB
as Piet
as Vriend van Jo
as Patrick
as Rebelse jongere
as Truck driver