He was in training for actor at the Hoger Instituut voor Dramatische Kunsten (HIDK – Studio Herman Teirlinck) in Antwerp, where he graduated with honors in 1992.

In 1992, he starred as a leading actor in the film Ad Fundum, for which he also recorded four songs for the motion picture soundtrack, including a duet with the English female singer-songwriter Sam Brown.

In 1995, he played his first Shakespeare at the KNS (Koninklijke Nederlandse Schouwburg, the Royal Theatre Company in Antwerp) and released his first solo album Pig Party (songwriter, performer, and producer).

From 1997 till 2000 he was part of the NTG (Nedelands Toneel Gent, the Royal Theatre Company in Ghent), where he played leading roles in A Clockwork Orange, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Peter Pan, Spring Awakening, etc.

In 2015 he produced his first play Kreutzersonate, Als het verlangen maar stopt, an adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's novella The Kruetzer Sonata.