Marcel van Heerden
Marcel is one of South Africa`s leading actors. Whilst still studying drama at University of Cape Town, he worked at the Space Theatre where he met Barney Simon. This was the beginning of a work relationship which continued through the seventies when they opened Johannesburg`s Market Theatre and into the nineties.
Marcel van Heerden - the voice of Grensoorlog
Marcels response to the states of emergency in South Africa during the 80`s was to start a dissident band called KOOS. This provided some of the impetus for a new movement in Afrikaans music later known as the Alternatiewes. Over the years he has done ground breaking indigenous as well as classical theatre, interspersed with scores of television dramas and series, a few provocative short films and a number of feature films. In 1988 he acted in Oliver Schmitz film Mapantsula which has been described as the best film on apartheid ever made.
In the early nineties he performed and wrote for performance group Mud Ensemble.
Marcel lives in Johannesburg where he continues to write, act, direct and care for his 16 year old son Vincent.
