Gijs Blom

Gijs Blom was born on Jan 02, 1997 in Netherlands. Gijs Blom's big-screen debut came with Sonny Boy directed by Maria Peters in 2011, strarring Wim - 13 jaar. Gijs Blom is known for The Forgotten Battle directed by Matthijs van Heijningen Jr., Gijs Blom stars as Marinus van Staveren and Jamie Flatters as William Sinclair. Gijs Blom has got 2 awards and 3 nominations so far. The most recent award Gijs Blom achieved is Lucas - International Festival of Films for Children and Young People. The upcoming new movie Gijs Blom plays is Dead & Beautiful which will be released on Nov 04, 2021.

Gijs Blom is one of the most promising young actors in The Netherlands. At the age of 17, he played the lead role in the critically acclaimed film Boys, directed by Mischa Kamp. The film was shown at multiple international film festivals and was eventually bought by Netflix. For his role in Boys, Gijs earned a nomination for a Gouden Kalf award for Best Actor at The Netherlands Film Festival. He also appeared in the feature film Nena directed by Saskia Diesing, and he played the lead role in Pijnstillers, based on the book by Carry Slee, for which he won the Sir-Peter Ustinov Newcomer Award at the Luca Film Festival.Gijs also stands out across the European border. He featured in Netflix's The Letter for the King as the warmongering prince of the realm, Viridian. This year, he stars in Matthijs van Heijningen's The Forgotten Battle, a WWII saga written by Paula van der Oest which tells the story of a young Dutch man who goes off to fight for Hitler. He also leads an international cast in David Verbeek's 'Dead & Beautiful', which premiered in Februari 2021 at the International Film Festival Rotterdam.