Markoesa Hamer is an award winning actress who studied acting in London at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (MA) and in Amsterdam at the ATKA; Academy of Dramatic Arts & Music Theatre (BA). Since 2007 she has worked on numerous film-, TV- and theatre productions.

Latest news: In 2024 the feature film TORCH SONG wil be released in which she plays a leading role next to Carla Yuri. 

For full credits and skills, please click the CV link.

In 2021 Markoesa Hamer introduced intimacy coordination to the Netherlands by organizing workshops and webinars by Ita O’Brien with the Dutch Actors Guild, ACT. After that Markoesa co-founded Intimiteitscoördinatie Nederland, continued training and started working as an intimacy coordinator in addition to being an actor. She wants to create a consent driven workplace in which safety is guaranteed without losing creativity. 

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ABOUT

Markoesa Hamer studied acting in London at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (MA) and in Amsterdam at the ATKA; Academy of Dramatic Arts & Music Theatre (BA).

Markoesa plays the role of Marlene in the German Netflix original series How To Sell Drugs Online (Fast) (2019-2021), and Fleur in the Dutch TV series Koppensellers (Headhunters) (2020). 

In 2020 she began touring with Theatre Gnaffel in the play Robin Hood as King John. The tour will continue in 2022.

In 2019 she toured the Netherlands with the Ulrike Quade Company in the production De Droomlozen (The Dreamless). The play will tour again from January 2021, in the Netherlands and Germany. 

In 2020 she won the award for Best Actress for her role in the short film Nesteltherapie (Nesting Therapy) (2019) at the International Short Film Festival Middelburg. The year before she won Best Actress for her role in the short film Hou Vast (Hold On) at the Tilburg Film Festival (2018). 

She starred in movies including Den Helder (Golden Calf 2008 for Best TV Film), Aanmodderfakker (Golden Calf 2014 for Best Film), The Aflossing (2017). She was a regular in the popular Dutch TV programme Dokter Deen (2012-2018) and the Comedy Central sketch show Popoz (2013-2014) and Popoz the Film (2015).

Alongside her work for film and television Markoesa has worked with various prominent theatre groups in the Netherlands such as Toneelgroep Amsterdam (today known as ITA)  and Toneelmakerij. She has taken on roles including Carol in Tennessee Williams’ Orpheus Descending, Grace Stoner in Stoner, Rebecca in Martin Crimp’s The Country and Junia in Jean Racine’s Britannicus. In 2014, Markoesa co-wrote and performed in the musical, Blue Grass On The Other Side, for the Amsterdam Fringe Festival. 

In 2011, Markoesa received a scholarship to study MA Acting for Screen at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London. She graduated with a distinction.

In the UK, Markoesa has acted in the BBC series Holby City (2014), performed in the National Theatre/dreamthinkspeak co-production In The Beginning Was The End (2013) and starred in the short film A Beautiful Death (2012).

Markoesa regularly does voiceover work in Dutch and English, for companies such as Hello Fresh and the Royal Palace in Amsterdam. 

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Contact

Please contact Features Creative Management in Amsterdam
or Sharkey & Co. Theatrical Agents in London.

Amsterdam
Features Creative Management
Entrepotdok 76 a
1018 AD Amsterdam
+31 (0)20 6277276
info@features.agency

London
Sharkey & Co Theatrical Agents
44 Lexington Street
London W1F 0LP
+44 (0)20 7287 1923
info@sharkeyandco.com

Headshots: Romy Treebusch

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