Andre Landzaat
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André Landzaat is a Dutch actor. He played Tony Cassadine in the soap opera
General Hospital
in 1981; for this, he won a Soap Opera Award. He used the popularity of the show to travel the United States
to bring attention to the problem of missing children.
Landzaat was born and raised in the Netherlands. Both of his parents, his mother Frederika and her father Jan Rotgans, were painters. He studied acting with Yves Furet in Paris, France and with Lee Strasberg
in New York. He speaks French, German, Dutch, and English.
Soap opera
A soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on radio or as television programming. The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble,...
General Hospital
General Hospital
General Hospital is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running American soap opera currently in production and the third longest running drama in television in American history after Guiding Light and As the World Turns....
in 1981; for this, he won a Soap Opera Award. He used the popularity of the show to travel the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
to bring attention to the problem of missing children.
Landzaat was born and raised in the Netherlands. Both of his parents, his mother Frederika and her father Jan Rotgans, were painters. He studied acting with Yves Furet in Paris, France and with Lee Strasberg
Lee Strasberg
Lee Strasberg was an American actor, director and acting teacher. He cofounded, with directors Harold Clurman and Cheryl Crawford, the Group Theatre in 1931, which was hailed as "America's first true theatrical collective"...
in New York. He speaks French, German, Dutch, and English.