July Janssen

July Janssen was born in the Netherlands. As a child, she always had a vivid imagination and spent time acting out characters from her favorite films in front of her family. After seeing Lasse Hallström' What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) at the age of twelve, she decided to delve into her passion for acting. She immediately started taking acting classes and joined dutch musical theatre ensemble 'De Jonge Stem'. And shortly thereafter got picked up to present at a local "The Movement" dutch television series, television commercials (IKEA, FrieslandCampina, Nationale Nederlanden, etc) comedy sketches, music videos, and numerous short films - playing a wide variety of characters and types. In 2016 she graduated from faaam - film actors academy Amsterdam, before Filmacteur Mediacollege Amsterdam, and Dans en Theater ROC Nova College. Her current feature film and television titles; Mark Weistra', 'De Club van 5' (cinema release 2020), Het leven is vurrukkulluk (2018) by Frans Weisz, Flikken Rotterdam (TV Series 2018- ), Kees van Hattum' Remnants of the Order: A Star Wars Fan Film (2018), Bram van Splunteren' 'Jezus van de Javastraat" (2016). She is continuously working on her crafts by studying different techniques with teachers like Meisner alumni Steven Ditmyer, Refocus method founder Tony Grahn, Frank Herrebout, Robert Ceelen, Renée Harp, Willemijn van der Ree, and others. July also founded ACT & MORE in 2015, assisting productions throughout all set departments, organizing actor classes and coaching and casting consultancy. Her motto: "What a beauty, that I can live a hundred lives in one"