Frieda Pittoors (1947) has been a member of Toneelgroep Amsterdam since 2005. She appeared in Hedda Gabler, Children of the sun, Antonioni Project,  The Russians! Tartuffe and Roman Tragedies, for which she received a Colombina nomination, Teorema and Ubu. She received the Colombina 2012 for her part in Tartuffe and The Russians. Pittoors previously appeared in several plays, including Perfect wedding, Maeterlinck and To Damascus.

 

At the age of eight, Pittoors was already on stage in Belgium’s professional theatres. She could also be seen in Dutch theatres starting from the seventies with companies such as Proloog, Sater, Het Zuidelijk Toneel and Discordia. Before she started at TA, Pittoors played at ZT Hollandia. There she performed in plays such as De Leenane trilogie [The Leenane Trilogy], for which she was nominated for the Theo d'Or, Tim van Athene and Seemannslieder/Op hoop van zegen [Sea shanties/Here goes nothing].