Verona Verbakel
Verona Verbakel (born 15 September 1992 in Gent) is a Belgian actress. Acting career. Verona Verbakel has been working with theater company "Ontroerend Goed" since 2009"." She was cast in theater productions "Once and for all we're gonna tell you who we are so shut up and listen" (in the English, French, German and Italian version) and "Teenage Riot". For "Sirens" (2014-2017), a feminist performance from the same theater company, she received "The stage award for acting excellence" for "Best Ensemble" at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2014. In 2013, she performed "The depth of the  valley" by "Rataplan" and director "Dimitri Leue". In 2014 she graduated "Magna cum laude" at the Royal Conservatory Antwerp (BE) for Drama Acting, one of her teachers being Ivo van Hove from ITA. From 2015 until 2018 she performed her theatre solo "The Audition". In 2017 she performed "La democrazia in America" by Italian director Romeo Castellucci. From 2016 until 2019 she played the lead in Liv by "The Mannschaft". In 2018 she performed Das Reingold/"Half of the Ring" by Dutch theatre company "De Warme Winkel". In 2019 her dance solo "Pablo" premiered at "Vooruit Ghent" with the support of  Dansvitrine. From 2020 until 2022 she performed "Work Harder" by Dutch theatre company "Wunderbaum" and Belgian actress and directress "Lies Pauwels", in the Dutch and German version. Some of her movie and television parts include: "Margaret Kelley" in A Quiet Passion by "Terence Davies" as the maid of "Emily Dickinson" by Cynthia Nixon; a Wehrmacht Secretary in The Exception, "Hilde" in the French movie "Rattrapage", "Polly" in "Out of the blue, into the black"; as a German punkerin in "Dunkelstadt" and various parts in Flemish television series such as "Chanelle" in "Slippery Ice", "Vicky" in Undercover 3 and "Liv" in  Under Fire.