Dave Mantel

Dave Mantel was born on Sep 15, 1981 in Netherlands. Dave Mantel's big-screen debut came with Het leven uit een dag directed by Mark de Cloe in 2009, strarring Barman Dancing. Dave Mantel is known for Magistratus: Overtura directed by Thijs Meuwese, Nienke 's Gravemade stars as Naneke and Julia Batelaan as Colinda. The upcoming new movie Dave Mantel plays is Kill Mode which will be released on Mar 17, 2020.

Dave Mantel was a Dutch actor, born 15th of September 1981 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. At the age of 8 he started at the Amsterdam youth drama school, along his regular education, where he played in 3 productions between the age of 14 and 18. In that same period, together with friends, they also began there own drama group which written, produced and performed their own plays. After secondary school, at the age of 18 he started auditioning for the Dutch Drama Schools. Finishing the auditions he could choose between the Drama Academy of Maastricht and the Amsterdam Drama School, which he chose to attend in 2001. In 2005, 4 years later, at the age of 23 he graduated the Amsterdam Drama School as actor and theater maker.After drama-school he played many stage-shows, from classical Shakespeare to more modern plays throughout the Netherlands and Belgium. On TV he featured in numerous commercials and a few TV series.From 2009/2010 his film-acting career took a lift, after which he played many supporting and lead supporting roles in numerous series and Dutch motion pictures; among others as the Dutch Prins Constantijn in 'Majesty' by Peter De Baan, in 'Sonny Boy' and 'De Groeten van Mike!' by Maria Peters.Other films he featured in are, among others, the motion pictures 'Suskind' by Rudolf van den Berg and 'Quiz' by Dick Maas.In 2013 he got national fame and familiarity with a mass audience thanks to his role of trivializing teacher Tino in the multiple prizewinning film "Spijt!' by Dave Schram. And for his role as Police Detective Menno Kuiper in the Dutch all-time popular daily TV-show 'GTST'.Dave also worked as a Photographer. Fashion, Editorial & Street Photography and as DOP/Filmmaker.