Wiesje van Tuinen

Biography

Wiesje van Tuinen was a Dutch actress. She grew up in the Dutch East Indies and moved to the south of France at the age of sixteen. There she was discovered by American director Rex Ingram. However, her parents thought she was still too young and sent her to boarding school in Brussels. Via Berlin she ended up in Paris where she acted in Edmond T. Gréville's 1934 film 'Remous'. Later that year she performed on screen for the second - and last - time in 'Het Mysterie van de Mondscheinsonate' ('The Mystery of the Moonlight Sonata').