Ellen Parren

Acting

Ellen Parren

Born January 1, 1987 · Heelsum, Gelderland, Netherlands (age 39)

Ellen Parren (Heelsum, 1987) is a Dutch actress. She graduated in 2009 at the Toneelacademie Maastricht. From 2007 Parren performed with Toneelgroep De Appel. In 2007 she also played a minor role in the feature film Alles is Liefde. Parren played in the television series S1ngle (Dutch broadcaster NET 5), Missie Aarde (Dutch network VPRO) and Jeuk (Dutch network VARA). In 2016 she performed the ro…

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LionessLioness · 2025
Lioness
2025
MovieDrama
When the temperamental Sylvie (17) is told that she has to give up her child when it’s born, she decides to escape the youth institution where she’s placed. In her eyes it’s the only solution to prevent that her child will have the same institutionalized youth as she endured.
Time to SpareTime to Spare · 2011
Time to Spare
★ 6.02011
MovieComedyDrama
When Molly, the 21 year-old sister of Maarten, departs the family home, she leaves her older brother with empty nest syndrome. But it also opens up new opportunities for him, such as the possibility to explore his love for Arthur, a closet gay. Molly and Maarten wrestle with their personal relationships and also their relationship with one another, but fate nevertheless seems determined to strike them both down.
A Most Annoying IslandA Most Annoying Island · 2019
A Most Annoying Island
★ 6.82019
MovieAdventureComedy
A curse that is centuries-old. An island full of annoying people. A contaminated prime-minister. A boy full of dreams who can turn this around. But how? A movie full of raps that don't rhyme, talking dolls and heroic actions.
De ZittingDe Zitting · 2022
De Zitting
★ 6.72022
MovieTV MovieDrama
A popular prime minister candidate and a well-known thriller book writer face each other in court after she accuses him of sexual abuse just before the election.
Madly in LoveMadly in Love · 2013
Madly in Love
★ 4.82013
MovieComedyRomance
The film focuses on the tumultuous romance in the lives of four women in The Hague. Teenage daughter Eva, her mother Judith, aunt Barbara and older sister Anna make it under one roof Hague together a nice game of. They are beautiful, courageous and sensible, but sometimes they just do not know in a world full of tender love, serial dating, slaked lust, affairs, children's desires and indestructible old loves.
I'm Not a RobotI'm Not a Robot · 2025
I'm Not a Robot
★ 7.12025
MovieComedyDrama
A music producer spirals into an existential crisis after repeatedly failing a CAPTCHA test-leading her to question whether she might actually be a robot.
NocturneNocturne · 2019
Nocturne
★ 5.12019
MovieDrama
On the very eve of shooting his debut film, a harried young director struggles to balance fiction and reality as he spends one fever dream of a night searching for the inspiration that eludes him.
AfterlifeAfterlife · 2019
Afterlife
★ 6.32019
MovieDramaFamily
Hiernamaals tells the story of Sam, a hyperintelligent and hardworking 14-year-old girl who leads a happy life with her father and her two brothers in the south of the Netherlands. She is a good student, very strict with herself and she is always on time. She also takes care of her two younger brothers; since her mother Vera died, she’s felt responsible for the family and now she takes care of the household with her father. One morning — rushing to school to help her math teacher print exams — she is struck by a large truck and she dies. In the hereafter she finds her mother waiting for her. It's a strange feeling of both happiness and sadness. She discovers that there is a way back to life, but will she succeed in taking her mother with her?

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AfterlifeAfterlife · 2019
Afterlife
★ 6.32019
MovieDramaFamily
Hiernamaals tells the story of Sam, a hyperintelligent and hardworking 14-year-old girl who leads a happy life with her father and her two brothers in the south of the Netherlands. She is a good student, very strict with herself and she is always on time. She also takes care of her two younger brothers; since her mother Vera died, she’s felt responsible for the family and now she takes care of the household with her father. One morning — rushing to school to help her math teacher print exams — she is struck by a large truck and she dies. In the hereafter she finds her mother waiting for her. It's a strange feeling of both happiness and sadness. She discovers that there is a way back to life, but will she succeed in taking her mother with her?

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