28 jul 2022 om 21:19 | Update: 5 minuten geleden
Former NOS presenter and actress Leontien Ceulemans passed away on Thursday at the age of seventy. She died in the Rosa Spier Huis in Laren after a long illness as a result of a fall. Former casting director Harry Klooster, who was good friends with her, reported this to the ANP.
By: our news editorsCeulemans was in 1981 the first presenter of the youth news. Before that she was mainly known as an actress. She starred in many major television series in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, such as Swibertje, Joop ter Heul, war winter, GTST in The sun in the house. Ceulemans also did a lot of voice-over work.
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Ceulemans grew up in Amsterdam, as the daughter of an actress and a guitarist. Through the work of her parents, she got to know the media world at a young age. She had her first performances in AVRO’s Children’s Choir and in radio plays of the KRO, in which her mother also participated.
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She then trained with the Scapino Ballet. This earned her jobs as a dancer on major television shows, such as the Johnny and Rijkshow and the pop show Moef Ga Ga. In the long run she was no longer satisfied with this, after which she decided to develop into an actress.
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In the early eighties, Ceulemans, together with Marga van Praag, formed the basis of the youth news. She got the job after responding to a vacancy. Ceulemans was the face of the program for almost two years, but left it youth news due to ongoing criticism of her presentation skills.
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The former television celebrity has not been publicly available in recent years due to her failing health. She donated her body to science. Therefore, there will be no funeral.
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