Known For: Acting
Born: March 28, 1960
Place of Birth: Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Netherlands

Joep van Deudekom

Joep was born on March 28, 1960 in Amsterdam and grew up in Schalkwijk (Haarlem) with 2 brothers and 2 sisters and from the age of 6 without a father, but with a fantastic mother. Joep was a bit of a crybaby, but he later managed to use that emotional sensitivity when composing sensitive melodies. Basketball was his main religion for years. Shooting forward with just too little talent and height (1.86m) for the top. At the age of eleven, Joep taught himself to play the guitar and he still sees this as the determining factor for his eventual career, which has taken its current but still erratic form with many detours and feints. Joep ended up in the theater with NUHR and de Ploeg through a career as a gym teacher and private law teacher. The friendship with Peter Heerschop, who was in his class at the Academy for Physical Education, and Viggo Waas, two years below him, laid the foundati…