Laurien Van den Broeck is a Belgian actress working across film, television, and
theatre.

Laurien played her first feature film role at the age of eleven: Mariken (2000),
directed by André van Duren and co-written by Academy Award winner Willekevan Ammelrooy.

Aged 13, she played the leading female role in Moonlight (2002) for which she was
awarded the Young Actor's Award at the Fort Lauderdale International Film
Festival and for which she was nominated the Golden Calf for Best Actress (the
Dutch equivalent of the Oscar) at the Netherlands Film Festival. Moonlight was
directed by Academy Award nominee Paula van der Oest.

In 2003 Laurien starred in De zaak Alzheimer (2003), best Box Office for a Belgian
film of all time. She played Magdalena Vermeer in Brush with Fate (2003), withGlenn Close and Ellen Burstyn.

In 2007-2008 she played in Sara (2007) and Witse (2004), two of the most popular
Belgian TV series of all time.

After an intense early acting career, Laurien took a break from the screen to
pursue a PhD in Materials Science Engineering, focusing on bone regeneration,
while also founding her own business with family.

She is currently developing her theatre production Eriopis, set to premiere in
December 2026. At the same time, she is preparing for the release of her arthouse
short film Alter Ego and developing a horror short film, Dolores.

Biography originally based on a text by Willo Schröer.