From the age of three months until he was nine he and his parents lived out of Europe, firstly in Burkina Faso, West Africa, later in Bangkok, and from 1990 in Semarang in Indonesia, before returning to the Netherlands in 1993.

He first acted aged 7 in a Dutch film called "Oeroeg" ("Going Home") shot in Indonesia.

After finishing secondary school he moved to the UK to attend London Academy of Performing Arts (LAPA).

After occasional film parts and, from 2000 onwards, some English language stage roles, he was given the part of Morris Fischer in the popular and long-running Dutch soap opera "Goede Tijden, Slechte Tijden" ("Good Times, Bad Times"), which he played from 2004 until the end of 2006.

He has developed his own programme for young people "Green Dream District" about new sustainable inventions which will show on "National Geographic" Youth from January 2009.