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Daphne Deckers
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Deckers in 2010.
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Daphne Muriël Deckers
10 November 1968 Nijmegen, Netherlands
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| Years active | 1989–present |
| Spouse(s) | Richard Krajicek (m. 1999) |
| Children | 2 |
Daphne Muriël Deckers was born in Nijmegen, Netherlands, on November 10, 1968. She is a well-known Dutch television presenter, a talented writer, and has also acted in movies and TV shows. Her career began in 1989 at RTL-Véronique, a Dutch TV channel. She later became the host of Holland's Next Top Model, a popular show where young people compete to become models.
Daphne started her career as a model. She then moved into acting. In 1997, she appeared in a James Bond movie called Tomorrow Never Dies. She also helped present the first season of the reality TV show Big Brother. Today, Daphne is famous for writing books, especially children's books and books about family life.
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Early Life and Beginnings
Daphne Deckers was born in Nijmegen. Soon after she was born, her family moved to a small village nearby called Persingen. While she was studying mass communications, she started working as a model.
Daphne's Career
Acting Roles
Daphne Deckers has appeared in several acting roles. She was in an American TV mini-series called Remember, which was based on a book. She also had a part in the Dutch movie All Stars. One of her most notable roles was a small part in the James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies. In this film, she played a public relations representative for the villain, Elliot Carver.
Television Shows
Daphne has hosted many television shows throughout her career. Some of these include Big Brother, Reisgids, TV Woonmagazine, and 101 Vrouwen. In July 2007, she started working as a judge on Holland's Next Top Model. This show was later renamed Benelux's Next Top Model.
Since 2007, Daphne has also been a fashion expert for RTL Boulevard, a Dutch entertainment news program. In September 2012, she became a regular replacement presenter for the show. She also has her own weekend TV program on 100%NL called Naakte Waarheid.
As an Author
Daphne Deckers started writing columns for a magazine in 1993. Soon after, she was asked to write a weekly column for a newspaper in Limburg. In 1994, she began writing a weekly column for another magazine called Viva.
In 1999, she collected many of her columns and published them in a book titled De Echte Deckers. She continued to write a weekly column for the newspaper De Telegraaf. These columns were later put together into two more books: Opwaartse drukte (2002) and Decksels (2005). Today, she still writes weekly columns for De Telegraaf and also for Reader's Digest.
Daphne has written two books about parenting and family life. These books are called De geboorte van een moeder (The Birth of a Mother) and De geboorte van een gezin (The Birth of a Family). In 2003, De geboorte van een gezin was nominated for a special award called the NS Publiekprijs.
Besides writing about family life, Daphne also writes children's books. Some of her popular children's novels include De veschrikkelijke ijstaart (The Terrible Ice Cream Cake), De matroos in de doos (The Sailor in the Box), and Marijn in de woestijn (Marijn in the Desert). Her second children's novel was even turned into a play in 2007. In 2012, she wrote her first romance novel, Alles is zoals het zou moeten zijn (Everything Is As It Should Be). This novel was made into a movie in 2020, called Life as It Should Be. The film won the Golden Film award and was one of the highest-earning Dutch films of 2020.
Personal Life
On July 7, 1999, Daphne Deckers married the famous tennis player Richard Krajicek. They have two children together.
In May 2010, Daphne received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Dutch Model Awards in Amsterdam. This award recognized her long and successful career as a model. She is also an ambassador for the Nationaal Fonds Kinderhulp, which is a charity that helps children. In 2010, she also launched her own line of lingerie called TC World of Women.
Filmography
Daphne Deckers has appeared in these films:
- 1997 – All Stars as Claire
- 1997 – Tomorrow Never Dies as a PR Lady
