[KYK] Fiela actress’ roots sprouted in Krugersdorp
The Krugersdorp-born actress plays the role of Barta van Rooyen.
One of the most highly anticipated films to be released soon features an actress who has some firm Krugersdorp roots.
The newly adapted Fiela se Kind comes out on 13 September and has a smorgasbord of exceptional local talent with Cindy Swanepoel, a Krugersdorp-born actress, in the role of Barta van Rooyen.
The film, in a nutshell, is about a coloured woman living in the arid Karoo, who takes in a lost white child and raises him as her own. Nine years later, the boy is removed and forced to live in the Knysna Forest with a family of woodcutters who claim that he is theirs.
Barta is a woman who has given up on life, she is broken inside. The loss of her child and the guilt that she has carried through life have left a mark on her and she takes the path of least resistance. The eternal victim, she doesn’t have the confidence to even wish for anything more out of life. She is a schemer and chooses her safety over those of others.
But who is the person behind character?
Cindy Swanepoel completed her BDram Honours degree in 2003 at the University of Stellenbosch. She received the Silwerskerm Festival Award for Best Actress for her role in the short film, Fluit Fluit.
Cindy also won two Huisgenoot Tempo awards for Best Soapie Actress and Best Entertainment Star in 2018.
She’s starred in more than 20 children’s and educational productions, and also specialises in puppets and shadow theatre.
Cindy has performed in theatre productions such as Kringe in ’n Bos, The Crucible, Drif, Curl Up and Dye, Houtkruis – die Musiekblyspel, My vrou se man se vrou, My boetie se boetie se boetie se baba (nominated for Best Actress for SAT Mag 2018) and Balle in die Lug.
The actress portrayed Mysi Moolman in the well-known film, Ballade vir ’n Enkeling.
Her work in short films includes Spiertier and Die Staat se Bul (part of Ons Stories). In 2015, she was nominated as Best Actress for the short film, Eenrigting (Silwerskerm Festival).
Drama series and soaps in which Cindy has appeared in a supporting role include Egoli, Villa Rosa, Generations, The Mating Game, 90 Plein Street, Laugh out Loud, Getroud met Rugby (Season 4), and Proesstraat.
For the past three years, Cindy has been playing the role of Dr Annelize Roux in Binnelanders.
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