Rutger Hauer

At 75 years old, Rutger Hauer physical status not available right now. We will update Rutger Hauer's height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, and measurements.

Rutger Oelsen Hauer (Dutch) is a student at the University of Dutch University (r?tx?r>uls) is a character in the film "Under Siege." (23 January 1944 – 19 July 2019, 19 July 2019) was a Dutch actor, novelist, and environmentalist.

He was named by the Dutch public as the Best Dutch Actor of the Century in 1969 and 1979, and he rose with his leading role in Turkish Delight (1973), which was named the Best Dutch Film of the Century in 1999.

After international recognition with Soldier of Orange (1977) and Spetters (1980), he delved into American films such as Nighthawks (1981) and Blade Runner (1982), starring self-aware android Roy Batty in the former.

His appearance in Blade Runner (1983), Ladyhawke (1985), The Legend of the Holy Drinker (1988), and Blind Fury (1989). From the 1990s, Hauer went into low-budget films, as well as supporting roles in major films such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992), Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2005), Batman Begins (2005), and The Rite (2011).

He returned to Dutch cinema and received the 2012 Rembrandt Award for Best Actor for his lead role in The Heineken Kidnapping.

He founded the Rutger Hauer Starfish Association, an AIDS charity that works outside of acting.

In the Order of the Netherlands Lion in 2013, he was made a knight.

Early life

Hauer was born in Breukelen, in the Province of Utrecht, on January 23, 1944, just days after the Netherlands was under German occupation during World War II. "I was born in the midst of the war," he said in 1981, and I suspect for that reason that I have deep roots in pacifism. "I am afraid of violence." Teunke (née Mellema) and Arend Hauer, both actors who ran an acting school in nearby Amsterdam, were his parents. He had three sisters. According to Hauer, his parents were more concerned about their art than their children. He did not have a close relationship with his father, and writer Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema later became a father figure to Hauer after they met during the filming of Soldier of Orange.

As his parents wanted him to develop his imagination, Hauer attended a Rudolf Steiner school. He left school to join the Dutch merchant navy at the age of 15. He spent a year travelling around the world on board a freighter but was unable to become a captain due to his colourblindness. When finishing his high school diploma at night, he worked odd jobs when returning home. He began attending acting classes at the Academy for Theater and Dance in Amsterdam, but then dropped out to join the Royal Netherlands Army. He began training as a combat medic but left the service after a few months because he opposed the use of deadly weapons. He returned to acting school and graduated in 1967.

Personal life

Hauer was an environmentalist. He supported the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and served on its board of advisors. The Rutger Hauer Starfish Association, an HIV awareness group, was also established by the actor. In April 2007, he published his autobiography All Those Moments: Heroes, Villains, Replicants, and Blade Runners, in which he addressed several of his acting roles. The Rutger Hauer Starfish Association will benefit the Rutger Hauer Starfish Association from the proceeds from the book.

Hauer was married twice. Aysha Hauer (born 1966), an actor who gave birth to Hauer's grandson in 1987, was born in his marriage with his first wife, Heidi Merz. Since 1968, he and his second wife, Ineke ten Cate, married in a private ceremony on November 22, 1985. Despite being born in Utrecht, Hauer had strong links to Friesland. In an interview with Leo Varad, his second wife, Laurens ten Cate, the editor-in-chief of the Friesland-based newspaper, and Hauer once said that he "needed to feel the Frisian clay under [his] feet."

Source

Career

Hauer appeared in the play Ajax for the first time at the age of 11. He became a stage actor with the Toneelgroep Noorder Compagnie after graduating from the Academy of Theater and Dance. In 1969, Hauer made his screen debut when Paul Verhoeven played him in the lead role of the Dutch medieval action drama Floris. The role made him well-known in his home country, and Hauer reprised his role in the 1975 German remake Floris von Rosemund.

When Verhoeven cast him in Turkish Delight (1973), which received an Oscar nomination for best foreign language film, Hauer's career changed direction. The film gained international recognition and at home, and Hauer's role was expected to appear in more foreign films. In the British film The Wilby Conspiracy (1975), Hauer made his English-language debut in less than two years. The film, which was shot in South Africa, was an action-drama with a strong emphasis on apartheid. Nonetheless, Hauer's supporting role was barely noticed in Hollywood, and he returned to Dutch cinema for many years. Katie Tippel (1975), and later with Verhoeven on Soldier of Orange (1977), and Spetters (1980). These two films paired Hauer with fellow Dutch actor Jeroen Krabbé. Hauer received the Golden Calf for his entire body of work at the 1981 Netherlands Film Festival.

In 1988, Hauer made his American debut as a psychopathic and cold-blooded killer named Wulfgar. Hauer, who wanted to work in Hollywood for a long time, worked with an accent coach in the early 1980s to develop a convincing American accent. He portrayed Albert Speer in the 1982 American Broadcasting Company's production Inside the Third Reich, unafraid of conflict. In Ridley Scott's 1982 science fiction thriller Blade Runner, where Hauer appeared in arguably his most popular and uplifting role as the eccentric and violent but sympathetic antihero Roy Batty, in which he shed the famous tears in rain monologue. "Cutting swaths of the original script right away before adding the speech's poignant final line," Hauer wrote some of the poem himself, the night before the shooting. He continued to play Theresa Russell in Euska (1983), an investigative reporter who was competing against John Hurt in Flesh & Blood (1985), and a knight partnered with Michelle Pfeiffer in Ladyhawke (1985).

He appeared in The Hitcher (1986), in which he played a mystic hitchhiker tortured a lone motorist and murdering anyone in his path. For his role in the television film Escape from Sobibor, he received the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1987. He was supposed to be cast as RoboCop (1987), but Verhoeven, the film's producer, felt that his frame was too large to comfortably fit in the character's suit at that time. Hauer appeared in Wanted: Dead or Alive as the descendant of the character played by Steve McQueen in the television series of the same name.

In 1988, he appeared as a homeless man in Ermanno Olmi's The Legend of the Holy Drinker. At the 1989 Seattle International Film Festival, Hauer received the Best Actor award. In Phillip Noyce's action film Blind Fury (1989), Hauer was selected to portray a blind martial artist superhero. After meeting with blind judo practitioner Lynn Manning during his investigation for the role, he initially struggled with the implausibility of the character but learned to "unfocus my eyes, to respond to smells and sounds." In 1989, Hauer's Blood of Heroes, in which he played a gladiator in a post-apocalyptic world, he returned to science fiction.

Hauer's comedic Guinness commercials, as well as his film roles, were well-known in low-budget films, such as Split Second (1992), and New World Disorder (1999). He appeared in Buffy the Vampire Slayer as the main antagonist vampire Lothos in 1992. He appeared in the Kylie Minogue music video "On a Night Like This" (2006). Hauer appeared in numerous British, Canadian, and American television shows, including Amelia Earhart: The Last Flight (1994), Fatherland (1994), The Call of the Wild (1997), Merlin (1999), Earhart's navigator Fred Noonan (1994), Smallville (2003), and Salem's Lot (2004).

In Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2003), a corrupt cardinal with great influence in Sin City (2005) and a devious corporate executive running Wayne Enterprises in Batman Begins (2005), Hauer played an assassin. He appeared in Patrick Lussier's film Dracula III: Legacy in 2005. In Dario Argento's Dracula 3D, seven years later, he portrayed vampire hunter Abraham Van Helsing. In 2005, Hauer hosted Shock Treatment, which was also included in Goal II: Living the Dream (2007) as Real Madrid coach Rudi Van der Merwe. He has also done voice-overs for Lurpak's British advertising campaign.

Hauer received the Golden Calf Culture Award in 2008 for his contributions to Dutch cinema. The award was given for his work as an actor as well as his attempts to promote young filmmakers and actors through programs such as the Rutger Hauer Film Factory. His participation in avant-garde filmmaker Cyrus Frisch's Dazzle in 2009 garnered raves; it was described in Dutch media as "the most relevant Dutch film of the year" in the year. In the same year, Hauer appeared in Barbarossa, an Italian film directed by Renzo Martinelli. He appeared in the live action version of the short and fictitious Grindhouse trailer Hobo (2011) in April 2010. In The Heineken Kidnapping (2011), Freddie Heineken was the recipient of the 2012 Rembrandt Award for Best Actor. Also in 2011, Hauer appeared in the supernatural horror film The Rite as an undertaker named Istvan, the protagonist's father.

In HBO's True Blood, Hauer appeared as Niall Brigant from 2013 to 2014. He appeared in The Last Kingdom and in Galavant as Ravn. In 2016, he appeared on the film jury for ShortCutz Amsterdam, an annual film festival in Amsterdam that promotes short films. Daniel Lazarski appeared in the 2017 video game Observer, which takes place in post-apocalyptic Poland, and Hauer described the character. Lazarski is a member of a special elite police unit that can hack into brains and interact with memories embedded. In the 2019 video game Kingdom Hearts III, Hauer also played Xehanort, replacing the late Leonard Nimoy and being replaced by Christopher Lloyd following his death.

Source