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= Jacques Adriaanse = Jacques Adriaanse is an actor, singer-songwriter best known for his roles in Per Fly's Hammarskjold as Donald Smith,  Kings of Jo'burg (Netflix) as Hansie Steenkamp Little Big Mouth (Netflix) as band leader Isaak, the troubled student Rex van der Linde in Binnelanders on KykNet     as well as portraying Richard McCormick in the Abraham Lincoln TV Mini Series on History by the award-winning producer Doris Kearns Goodwin, director Malcolm Venville and acts opposite emmy nominated actor Graham Sibley.

In 2022 Jacques lands his first American role of Richard Cunningham McCormick, in the TV Mini Series Abraham Lincoln by Radical Media by the award-winning producer Doris Kearns Goodwin, director Malcolm Venville and acts opposite actor Graham Sibley. Jacques also gets the opportunity to work with British director Karen McGann in the CNN TV-Mini Series Reframed: Marilyn Monroe as Hungarian photographer, André De Dienes, narrated by Jessica Chastain. Jacques co-produces the short film "The Last Laughter Guru" in which he plays Ralph for the 2021 Los Angeles 48hr Film Project, this film receives three nominations and is selected for the "Best of Los Angeles" screening in Los Angeles. He also releases his first album in 2021 called “Freedom” which takes us on a journey through South Africa complete with different languages, genres and all the challenges associated with this diverse country. Jacques receives part-time and full-time training from 2015-2018 at PALI (The Performing Arts Lifestyle Institute), as well as training by Jacques Bessenger, Lelia Etsebeth (Acting on Screen) and Simoné Nortman Pretorius (Art of Acting Advanced). From 2019 he starts training with Bianca Amato for accent and acting coaching as well as Anthony Meindls Actor Workshop under coaches Meridith McGeachie and Natasha Mayet.He constantly keeps himself occupied with further training in the performing arts world and believes that being an eternal learner is what the life of an artist is. Jacques considers it an honour to adjudicate the National Acting Competition of 2022.

Early Life and Acting Background
Jacques Adriaanse was born on January 17th, 1996 in a small town Potchefstroom, South Africa. He is one of two children of Jeanne (née Fleck), a teacher, real estate agent and community councillor of the Democratic Alliance, and Dr Erik Adriaanse (aka Frederik Gideon Adriaanse), an Agricultural Scientist and Researcher in the Field of Fertilisation. Jacques has one sister Dr Marguerite Kruger (née Adriaanse). Both his parents are from German and Dutch descent and are Afrikaans. His parents met in Potchefstroom while at a gospel music concert while his dad was working at the ARC/LNR (Agricultural Research Council) at the time.

Adriaanse's parents named him 'Jacques' as his grandfather on his father's side was Johannes Jacobus Adriaanse and on his mother's side John Christopher Fleck, they decided to keep both sides of the family satisfied "Jacques" was a good choice for a name. Growing up Jacques was left many a time with his grandmother Augusta Marguerite Fleck (née van Rooyen) when his parents went to work. It was on these visits that he started falling in love with music and the art of performing as a youngster. His grandmother, then a retired classical opera singer, gave singing lessons at home and she used to recall how Jacques would sit in on all her coaching sessions while she taught many of her students, Jacques would run around her house singing "Dis heerlike lente, die winter's verby..." when he was staying with her and this would warm her heart immensely. Furthermore, his mom was a teacher at 'Bailie Park Laerskool', a primary school in Potchefstroom and coached the choir and yearly recitals at the school, he was constantly surrounded by creative, musical and performing loving people. It is in this time that his love for performing started.

2018-2019
While still training at PALI and doing various other acting workshops, he makes his commercial debut in “#Werk” by Forum Films in 2018 and also plays Nelus in the immersive theatre experience DEURnis 20-voor-2 drama, ‘Vier’, by Johann Smith at the Aardklop National Arts Festival. After this he signs with top talent agent in South Africa Carlynn de Waal Smith at Contractors Artists in Johannesburg. In 2019 he tells his agent to send him out for literally everything as he wants to experience the full meaning of being an actor and performer in South Africa.

In this time he books two children's musical theatre shows at the National Children's Theatre in Johannesburg, 'Pippie Langkous' and his favourite, 'Charlotte's Webb' under the guidance of Coba-Maryn Wilsenach.

2020

2021

2022

Singing Career

 * Grandmother Opera Singer, he recalls watching her teach vocal lessons as a child.
 * Mom, Teacher and Choir Conductor
 * In primary school, Bailie Park Laerskool he enjoys singing in the revue
 * Joins the National Choir Academy (North West Youth Choir)
 * Tuks Camerata (Dr Michael Joseph Barrett)
 * BCom Law Degree
 * Freedom in 2021
 * BCom Law Degree
 * Freedom in 2021

In his high school years at Potchefstroom Gimnasium, Jacques sings in the National Choir Academy's North West Youth Choir branch and he also plays leading roles in various school musicals in his final year at High School he plays the lead in the school Musical as well as the lead in two plays the school enters for the ATKV National Play Festival.

He forms part of the University of Pretoria's Tuks Camerata for three years and in the year he serves as chair of communications and stage management portfolio, the choir is crowned winners at the Grand Prix of Nations in Riga, Latvia under conductor Dr Michael Barret. At school he receives two nominations as best actor at the National ATKV Tiener Toneel Aardkloop final in 2013 and 2014 respectively and is awarded Culture Learner of the Year at Potchefstroom Gimnasium for three consecutive years. Jacques also serves as head boy of Potchefstroom Gimnasium in 2014.

= Representation = Jacques is currently represented by Contractors Artist Agency in Johannesburg and Stella Talent in Cape Town, South Africa.

= Training & Education =

Acting
Jacques receives a certificate from PALI (Performing Arts Lifestyle Institute) for Acting training, where he receives formal training from 2016-2018 with actors & coaches Shareen Swart, Kaz McFadden, André Velts, Natasha Hadjinicolaides, Luan Jacobs and many other industry role players in South Africa.

While training at PALI, Jacques furthers his training by attending both the beginner and advanced workshop of Lelia Etsebeth and Jacques Bessenger Acting on Screen, it's here where he meets his soon to be first agent Carlynn De Waal-Smit after she gave a talk on the business of acting at this workshop. Jacques recalls how he was glued to her talk and immediately went up to her to ask her advice in furthering his career, after the conversation Lelia told him: "I hope you realise that you should email her first thing tomorrow." He did and have been happily signed ever since.

In 2018 Jacques also attends workshop with Simoné Nortmann Pretorius (Art of Acting Advanced).

In 2019, Jacques starts working with award winning Actress and Acting & Dialect Coach Bianca Amato on a continuos basis and still trains with her to this day.

In 2019 Jacques attends a workshop with Meridith McGeachie