Annemarie Hagenaars

Annemarie Hagenaars is an actor born and raised in the Netherlands. She has worked in a variety of theatre productions, film, TV, commercials and also in modeling. Since she was ten years old, she has had two passions in life: acting and astronomy. While navigating the skies with a telescope on the rooftop of her school, she also performed lead roles in the school plays. Annemarie holds a master's in Foundations of Physics and a bachelor's in Astronomy. She went to Drama School (ArtEZ Institute of the Arts) in the Netherlands and worked as a research analyst in Rotterdam for five years. All the while she kept performing in plays, films and on national TV. She then decided to quit her job as a researcher to become a full-time actor and performer. After touring the Netherlands for several years with her one-woman show "The Story of The Einstein Girl", she moved to New York City in 2016 to pursue her acting career in the United States. In November 2017 she joined SAG-AFTRA. She is a professional member of New York Women in Film & Television, the League of Professional Theatre Women and the New York Academy of Sciences. Annemarie performed a leading role in the Off-Broadway show "Girl Gone: Or Before A League of Their Own" at the Actors Temple Theatre in New York City. In June 2018 Annemarie performed the role of Tullius Rotundus in the production of "Romulus The Great" by the Yangtze Repertory Theatre. In April 2017 Annemarie acted in her first Off-Broadway Actors Equity Association show "CasablancaBox" at HERE Arts Center in NYC, written by Sara Farrington and directed by Reid Farrington. "CasablancaBox" was nominated for two Drama Desk Awards 2017. Annemarie worked on Tom Dolby's feature film "The Artist's Wife" starring Bruce Dern and Lena Olin. She also booked a role in the film "Lucky Jack". In November 2018 the feature film "Destiny's smile" was released in the theaters in China and received a lot of press there. In the fall of 2017 Annemarie worked with artist and photographer Jill Greenberg on the movie "Honeypot" and played the title role. The film was released in December 2017 and is inspired by the audio of Harvey Weinstein obtained by the NYPD's sting operation in 2015 with Ambra Gutierrez. "Honeypot" has been screened at several festivals and won the award "Best Narrative Short Film" at the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival. Annemarie also played Anna in the short film "Karma" that won the awards of "Platinum Remi Award" at the WorldFest - Houston International Film Festival and "Official Selection" at the Sunscreen Film Festival. "Karma" was screened at the Garden State Film Festival 2019 and is available on Amazon Prime. During her career in the US, Annemarie has been asked to perform original works by well-known Dutch artists that have been translated to English, such as Adelheid Roosen's "The Veiled Monologues" during Roosen's International Theatre Award Ceremony at the League of Professional Theatre Women, Esther Apituley's "Bach & Bleach" presented at The Netherland Club of New York and Kees Roorda's "A Kid Like Rishi" produced by the Off-Broadway company Origin Theatre. Annemarie also booked roles in the American TV series "Mysteries at The Museum" and "Homicide for the Holidays". Besides roles with a Standard American Accent, she has done work in German, Dutch, Yiddish, Scandinavian, Polish, British, and Russian accents. Annemarie is very happy to be living and working in New York City and she is grateful to all the people in her life who have been a part of this journey and made this life possible.