FrameThrower · Actors · Renée Soutendijk
Renée Soutendijk
3 films · 194 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1980–2018
Born 21 May 1957 · The Hague, Netherlands
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Renette Pauline Soutendijk, known as Renée Soutendijk, (born May 21, 1957 in The Hague) is a Dutch actress.
She was a favorite star of director Paul Verhoeven's films and is perhaps best known for her work in his 1980 release, Spetters.
Soutendijk is the mother of actress Caro Lenssen.
A former Olympic athlete in gymnastics, Amsterdam-born Renee Soutendijk began her film career in Germany. The blonde, powerfully built young actress scored a hit playing loose-cannon "heroines" in a brace of Paul Verhoeven-directed cult films, Spetters (1980) and The Fourth Man (1983).…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 194 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1980–2018
- Golden Calf for Best Actress1985
How their films are shot
Measured across 194 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Renée takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 3 films we hold, 53% of their frames are night, 55% low key — the look of the work Renée takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 194 frames from Renée Soutendijk's 3 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.