Barbara Augustine Woesthoff-Nederhorst (born Februari 4, 1969 in Amsterdam

Amsterdam

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, died Januari 29, 2004 in Scheveningen) was a Dutch

Netherlands

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 actress and singer.

She became known as Roos Alberts-de Jager in the soap Goede tijden, slechte tijden

Goede Tijden, Slechte Tijden

Goede tijden, slechte tijden , also known as GTST, is the longest-running Dutch soap opera, which began on 1 October 1990 on RTL4. The programme was the first daily soap in the Netherlands. The soap is produced by Joop van den Ende and to date over 4,000 episodes have been broadcast...

 (GTST), a role she played from 1992 till 2000. With her GTST co-stars Babette van Veen and Katja Schuurman

Katja Schuurman

Katja Römer-Schuurman is a Dutch actress, singer, television personality and occasional VJ.-Youth:Katja grew up in Bunnik as the eldest daughter of a Dutch father and a Chinese-Surinamese mother; she has one younger sister, Birgit, who is an actress as well.-The 1990s:Schuurman made her acting...

 she formed the girl group Linda, Roos & Jessica, the group performed under the names of their GTST characters.

Nederhorst later played in the soap Onderweg naar morgen, the drama series All Stars (based on the same-named 1997 Dutch movie) and Bon bini beach, (a telenovela

Telenovela

A telenovela is a limited-run serial dramatic programming popular in Latin American, Portuguese, and Spanish television programming. The word combines tele, short for televisión or televisão , and novela, a Spanish or Portuguese word for "novel"...

 set in Curaçao

Curaçao

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).

After an earlier unsuccessful marriage, she married Dinand Woesthoff

Dinand Woesthoff

Marco Frank Ferdinand "Dinand" Woesthoff is a Dutch singer of Indo heritage.He is the lead singer of the Dutch band Kane...

, the singer of the Dutch band Kane

Kane (Dutch band)

Kane is a Dutch rock band. The group consists of the two original members, Dinand Woesthoff and Dennis van Leeuwen . Their music can be described as "guitar rock"...

 in September 2003. They had a child together, who was born in June 2003.

Soon after her marriage with Woesthoff it became known that she had developed breast cancer

Breast cancer

Breast cancer is cancer originating from breast tissue, most commonly from the inner lining of milk ducts or the lobules that supply the ducts with milk. Cancers originating from ducts are known as ductal carcinomas; those originating from lobules are known as lobular carcinomas...

and she died of the complications of the disease on Januari 29, 2004.

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