Personal Info
Birth date
1952-07-28 (72 Years)
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Zeeland, North Brabant, Netherlands
Also known as
Monica Maria Theresia van de Ven
Monique van de Ven
Biography
Monica Maria Theresia "Monique" van de Ven is a Dutch stage and screen actress and director. She made her film debut in "Turkish Delight" (1973).
Filmography
Pauw & Witteman
7
Overview:
Pauw & Witteman is a Dutch late-night talk show, hosted by Jeroen Pauw en Paul Witteman. It is generally focused on current affairs and politics. It is broadcast every weekday at 11 pm on Nederland 1. It is produced by Dutch public broadcasters NPS and VARA. During summer Pauw & Witteman are replaced by Knevel & Van de Brink, a talk show hosted by Andries Knevel and Thijs van den Brink, produced by the dutch evangelical broadcasting company, the EO.Remington Steele
7.101
Overview:
Laura Holt, a licensed private detective, opens a detective agency but finds that potential clients refuse to hire a woman, however qualified. To solve the problem, Laura invents a fictitious male superior whom she names Remington Steele. Through a series of events that unfold in the first episode, "License to Steele," a former thief and con man, whose real name is never revealed, assumes the identity of Remington Steele. Behind the scenes, Laura remains firmly in charge.Starsky & Hutch
7.3
Overview:
Streetwise Detective David Starsky partners up with a more intellectual partner, Kenneth 'Hutch' Hutchinson, to protect citizens and patrol the streets of Bay City.De Wereld Draait Door
5.6
Overview:
Talk show hosted by Matthijs van Nieuwkerk containing a mixture of news, information, television bloopers and general entertainment.Wizards and Warriors
6.8
Overview:
A sword-and-sorcery adventure series done tongue-in-cheek. It's set in a mythical kingdom where good Prince Erik Greystone helps the kindly king fight the forces of evil.Voyagers!
7.506
Overview:
A member of a league of time travelers and a boy travel through time repairing errors in world history.Sil de strandjutter
5.8
Overview:
The story takes place on Terschelling, which is closed off from the rest of the Netherlands at the end of the 19th century. Sil Droeviger, a farmer in Oosterend, supplements his income for his family, consisting of his wife Jaakje and sons Jelle and Wietse, with beachcombing. One day a strong storm arises and Sil rescues a girl from a sunken Swedish dinghy, while the mother drowns. Sil takes the girl home and raises her as his own daughter. He calls her Lobke, just like their daughter who died shortly after birth.Amsterdamned
6.34
Overview:
A mysterious diver hiding in Amsterdam's canal system embarks on a rampage of gruesome murders, terrifying city officials and leaving few clues for the city's best detective, who doesn't suspect that both his new girlfriend and twelve-year-old daughter may be closer than he is to finding the killer.Turkish Delight
6.833
Overview:
Gifted but hot-headed sculptor Ericvhas a stormy, erotic, and star-crossed romance with a beautiful young woman named Olga.Stunt Rock
5.3
Overview:
Australian stuntman Grant Page goes to Los Angeles to work on a television series. He uses his spare time to lend his expertise to rock band Sorcery. Page helps the band develop pyrotechnic magic tricks for their shows, and also recounts to his own exploits as a stuntman and daredevil as well as various stunts by other greats.Like Tears in Rain
7.5
Overview:
His entire life, the charismatic actor Rutger Hauer kept the outside world at a distance. His inner circle included only a small group of people, among them director and goddaughter Sanna Fabery de Jonge. In this film, she unravels the mystery surrounding Rutger and reveals a man even more fascinating than the roles he played.Daylight
6.79
Overview:
Young lawyer Iris discovers that she has an older, autistic half-brother Ray, who is in prison for the atrocious murder of his neighbour and her five-year-old daughter. When she meets Ray he reminds her a lot of her own son Aron, who also is autistic, and she starts to believe that he is innocent.A Woman Like Eve
4.6
Overview:
A devoted yet stressed out housewife takes a holiday to relax, and falls in love with another woman: a guitar-playing hippie who lives in a commune.Long Live the Queen
6.9
Overview:
A fairytale about a young girl who learns to play chess and at the same time finds her father.The Discovery of Heaven
6.5
Overview:
Disappointed with humanity, God wants to revoke his contract with humanity and wants to take back the stone tablets containing the ten commandments. To this end an angel is sent out to affect the personal lives of three humans so an appropriate child may be conceived.Amazones
5.455
Overview:
Four women are sick of being poor. They decide to rob a bank. They are surprised how easily they get away with it and start to commit more robberies. When the net finally closes around them they decide to make one last big hit.The Assault
6.7
Overview:
At the end of WWII the Dutch resistance kills a German officer in front of the house of a Dutch family. Years after the war the young boy who witnessed the killing runs into the members of the resistance who committed the killing.Isabelle
4.7
Overview:
Isabelle is a famous and beloved actress from the Netherlands, who disappears when on Holiday in Belgium. She has been kidnapped by bartender Jeanne Bitor, an artist with a disfigured face. Jeanne is very bitter about her 'ugly' appearance, and she is obsessed with the process of dying and deterioration of animals and humans. Therefore, she abducts Isabelle and starves her to death, while painting her in different phases of the process.Tonight's the Night
1
Overview:
The game of love starts in a typical blues bar. The hot and magic rhythm of the blues makes even the shiest man throw away his fears and participate in the erotic of the night.Katie Tippel
6.5
Overview:
In the late 19th century, a young woman moves to Amsterdam with her family and tries to make a living. Preyed upon by various men, she nonetheless rises in society.Lily Was Here
3.8
Overview:
Lily works as a checkout girl at the local supermarket. She becomes pregnant, but before the child is born, the black father is attacked by skinheads and killed. Following his death, she flees to the city, where she soon finds herself under the wings of a pimp, Ted. Escaping Ted, she commences a one-woman spree of thefts, culminating in running from the police and the press. In the end, Lily must make a choice between freedom, and her baby.Summer Heat
5.6
Overview:
Photographer Bob loses his girlfriend. A year later he meets Kathleen. Is she in love? Or does she use him for her dark dealings with the mafia?Paint It Black
2.375
Overview:
A California metal sculptor becomes a suspect after someone kills his gallery-owner lover.Dixie: Changing Habits
3.5
Overview:
Dixie is caught operating a whorehouse, and is sentenced to 90 days house arrest in a convent! Can Dixie bend to the ways of the convent nuns to avoid jail?The Johnsons
5.917
Overview:
According to an ancient Indian tale a giant monster embryo residing in a crystal vase is predetermined to fertilize a blue-eyed woman. She will give birth to something evil to unleash horror and destruction upon human kind. Ugly septuplet brothers reproduced within the framework of mysterious genetic experiments terrorize a young innocent girl who seems to be chosen for the sinister predestination.Acting
2024Like Tears in Rain as Self
2020The Dick Maas Method as Self
2018Doris as Leonie
2017Xangadix Lives! as Unknown
2015De Overkant as Moeder Freek (voice)
2013Daylight as Ageeth Boelens
2012Dokter Deen (40 Episodes) as Maria Deen
2011Isabelle as Moeder van Isabelle
2007Thank God it's Friday (1 Episode) as Unknown
2007Zadelpijn as An
2007Sylvia Kristel: Nu as Self
2006Divina Gloria as Unknown
2006Pauw & Witteman (2 Episodes) as Unknown
2006Beroemde Ouders (10 Episodes) as Unknown
2005De Wereld Draait Door (1 Episode) as Self
2004Amazones as Kers
2001The Discovery of Heaven as Ada's Nurse
1999Spangen (50 Episodes) as Unknown
1996Paul Verhoeven: From Holland to Hollywood as Herself
1995Long Live the Queen as White Queen
1992Iris (7 Episodes) as Iris
1992The Johnsons as Victoria Lucas
1991Eline Vere as Betsy van Raat
1990Romeo as Anne Herden
1990Paint It Black as Kyla Leif
1989Lily Was Here as Vroedvrouw Conny
1988Amsterdamned as Laura
1987A Month Later as Monika
1987Iris as Iris
1987Tonight's the Night as Donna
1986The Assault as Saskia de Graaff
1984The Scorpion as Anna
1983Burning Love as Anna
1983Wizards and Warriors (1 Episode) as Unknown
1983Dixie: Changing Habits as Sherry Bouvais
1982Voyagers! (1 Episode) as Unknown
1982Remington Steele (1 Episode) as Mary Howell Dannon
1982Breach of Contract as Unknown
1981High Heels, Real Love as Jenny Vreugdehil
1979Uit elkaar as Linda
1979A Woman Like Eve as Eve
1978The Inheritance as Ingrid Sanders
1978Stunt Rock as Monique van de Ven
1977Doctor Vlimmen as Leonieke
1976Sil de strandjutter (7 Episodes) as Unknown
1976Anita Drögemöller und die Ruhe an der Ruhr as Anita Drögemöller
1975Starsky & Hutch (1 Episode) as Unknown
1975The Last Train as Loesje
1975Katie Tippel as Keetje Tippel
1974Verloren maandag as Linda
1974Dakota as Claudia
1973Turkish Delight as Olga Stapels
Directing
2008Summer Heat ... Director