
Susanne Beyers
Acting
Biography
Susanne Beyers is a South African actress and writer best known for her roles in Afrikaans television drama series, including Arende, Onder Draai die Duiwel Rond, Soutmansland and Hart van Staal. Other television series she has acted in include Dennekruin 12, Seders val in Lebanon, Die Man met die Lyk om sy Nek, Jasper Le Feuvre, Samaritaan and Beyond Return. Susanne did a BDrama degree at the University of Stellenbosch. Theatre credits include the Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing and various productions for National Festivals, including Die Uurwerk Kantel, Drafstap of Drentel, Dalk is ons almal so, Susanna die Geliefde and Moeders en Dogters. She has also done extensive work in children's theatre and played a minor role in the 1997 made-for-TV movie Mandela and de Klerk, playing T.V. Reporter #2. In addition to her acting Susanne also writes a weekly column for Die Burger newspaper, in which she does a round-up of theatre happenings and interviews theatre personalities. Susanne joined the cast of the SABC2 drama series Erfsondes for its second season (2009) in the role of Ansie Labuschagne.
Known For

A South African Afrikaans soap opera. It is set in and around the fictional private hospital, Binneland Kliniek, in Pretoria, and the storyline follows the trials, trauma and tribulations of the staff and patients of the hospital.
Binnelanders

The unit specializes in the investigation of serial murders and is led by Van der Bijl, a former murder and robbery detective who gained fame for his handling of several high-profile cases. Each episode focuses on a serial killer. The main character, Colonel Piet van der Bijl, also known as Die Byl, is loosely modeled on the famous ex-detective Piet Byleveld.
Die Byl

A south African series that takes place in the work and life environment of the emergency response task force, where the pressure is sky high and the room for error is tiny. Now that the task force has just been set up by the Western Cape police - as a way to combat the rapidly increasing cases of missing persons in South Africa - the members of the task force have a seemingly impossible task at hand: to find the missing persons in Cape Town and bring them home one by one.
Projek Dina

When Cape Town housewife discovers evidence her husband is having an affair with a stripper, her investigation takes her to a world poles apart from the suburban utopia she knows.
Koek

The series tells the story of Tom Niemandt who receives an unexpected call that leads him to the Karoo. While trying to make sense of Merweville, the village in the Karoo, he meets a group of people who change his life irrevocably.
Die Boekklub

A legal drama that revolves around the law firm Van Wyk & Vennote, in which the lawyers must handle both their legal cases and their personal and family dramas.
Fynskrif

After a series of misfortunes, Fleur — mourning a deep loss — takes her daughter and returns to her hometown in search of a renewed sense of purpose.
Tuiskoms

A South African Afrikaans series about broken families and the lies and deceit within them and how sins committed to do good can come back to haunt families when they least expect it.
Erfsondes

Over the course of a year, the Van Wyk's mourn the loss of a loved one and struggle with divorce, illness, forgiveness, high school and secrets as they heal and find each other again.
Een Keer Om Die Son

Onder Draai die Duiwel Rond is a South African television drama series created and written by Chris Barnard and produced by Sonneblom Films about beautiful people, good wine and respectable neighbours living on the banks of the Hartebeespoort Dam with lives that are seemingly idyllically peaceful and romantic, but which harbour deep secrets just beneath the surface of the facade.
Onder Draai Die Duiwel Rond

Leandie du Randt visits the viewers' living room weekly with the chat program 'Gesels'
Gesels

Based on the book with the same name; meet Mart Vermaak, the disillusionment of her growing up takes place against the political backdrop of the turbulent late 1970s, while an older Mart finds herself in a disillusionment of a different kind.
Dinge Van 'n Kind

Adri Joubert has been the cool, calm, reassuring face and voice of the evening news for two decades. But then her husband is murdered, and her life becomes news as a national crisis shakes the country. She is forced to put aside her personal trauma to guide viewers through the state of emergency from behind a red-hot news desk.
Die Nuusmakers

The Brand Staal-company made its owner, Willie Brand, very rich. However can fortune like his buy happiness? He had eveything his hart desired, a beautiful wife, a sexy secretary with whom he had an affair, an ambitious daughter, a couple of sharp sons and a youngling which was the apple of his eye. But his financial relations suddenly got a knock, his marraige was on the rocks and an accident changed his and his family's life forever.
Hart Van Staal

Sidney Poitier and Michael Caine both received Emmy nominations for their performances in this made-for-TV movie. The plot follows Nelson Mandela's 27-year struggle to end apartheid.
Mandela and de Klerk

Jay van Niekerk is a young, attractive and career driven comic book illustrator. Although he is advancing in almost every aspect of his personal and professional life, his one true desire seems to be the one furthest from reach. This has brought him to a crossroad in his life. Does he give up and keep fully focused on his career or does he finally open his heart to fulfill his deep longing for love and set out to meet the woman of his dreams? He wants someone funny, someone bright, who will appreciate his love of comics and embrace his eccentric lifestyle.
Eintlik nogal baie

Don “Vossie” Vorster is a geeky bunny-hugger with a good heart. About to set off for Stellenbosch University, Vossie’s proud father hands him a box. Inside, he discovers a slightly tatty black bowtie. In a tradition passed down from generation to generation, the eldest son in the Vorster family is given the honour of wearing the bowtie when he finishes high school. Imbued with the courage to stand up for the things he cares about, he’s ready to take on courting the girl of his dreams.
Bow Tie

Elsabe Marais, a widow in her 80s, and her three elderly friends embark on a hilarious road trip across the Karoo to experience a meteor shower in Sutherland. They have three days to get there, but to reach their goal in time, they will have to elude and outsmart her overprotective son, who is hot on their tail.