Kay Greidanus

Biography:

Dutch actor Kay Guido Greidanus was born in The Hague on June 4, 1991.
The Greidanus genus’s scion, Kay Greidanus, is from a family of filmmakers and actresses.

He is the son of actress Martine de Moor and actor and director Aus Greidanus (1950). On his mother’s side, he is the grandson of actors Trins Snijders and Guido de Moor. The actors Pauline Greidanus (1976) and Aus Greidanus (1975) are his half-sister and half-brother.

Greidanus, at eight years old, starred in the motion picture Kruimeltje. He performed in three shows at the ALBA theater in The Hague starting when he was fifteen years old.

Kay trained in theater at the Maastricht Theater Academy, where he graduated in the summer of 2013, much like his brother Aus. He performed in Prettige Feestdagen (directed by Domien Van Der Meieren), Family Voices (directed by Marijke de Kerf), Maria Stuart (directed by René Lobo), and he co-founded the clown show Montavivande with Ward Kerremans and Martijn Klink while he was a student.

He performed in the 2011 production of “Intensive Care 3 AM” at Toneelgroep Maastricht, directed by Carina Molier. While still a student, he performed in the 2012–13 theater season as the soldier Vladimir in Chekhov’s Three Sisters at the National Theater, directed by Theu Boermans, and as Gordon in Eugene O’Neill’s Strange Interlude at the National Theater, directed by Johan Doesburg.

Under Marcus Azzini’s supervision, he presented The Process of Franz Kafka at Toneelgroep Oostpool at the end of 2013. Greidanus appears in the third season of Bloedverwanten, a drama on television, in 2014.

Greidanus portrayed the title character in the Dutch adaptation of the British historical drama historical Horse in 2014 and 2015. In 2015, Greidanus was involved in Meiden van de Herengracht on Net5. In it, he portrayed the toyboy who had an affair with Nico, the top editor of a magazine.

Since May 2019, Greidanus and his partner Sarah Chronis have been in the TV show New Neighbors, where they both played a couple.  In the sixteen-part series This Are We, Greidanus will debut as Kasper Peters in mid-November 2019.