Joris Putman

Joris Jacques Kees Putman (24 July 1984 at Noordwijk in the Netherlands) is a Dutch actor. Joris' mother is a non-western sociologist and his father is a documentary film-maker. 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. While at school in the Netherlands he acted in independent films and on TV. After finishing secondary school he moved to the UK to attend drama school in London (L.A.P.A.). After occasional film parts and, from 2000 onwards, some English language stage...