Yvonne Lex(1927-1996)
- Actress
- Director
- Writer
After she was brought up to be an actress she was active in the Antwerp
music-hall scene of the fifties. In 1958 she started her career on the
'Koninklijke Vlaamse schouwburg' in Brussels as a dramatic actress till
1985. The sixties and the seventies where the highlights of her theatre
career. Meanwhile she started in 1969 her own theatrecompany 'TIL'
ÿheatergezelschap Ivonne Lex. In 1986 she became the director of the
Antwerp K.N.S. 'Koninklijke Nederlandse Schouwburg', but this wasn't so
successful as the other things she had realized. She was the daughter of
an other Flemish actress : Helena Van Herck, and it was from her that
Yvonne lex found her way to a successful theater - and not so much
movie- career in Flanders and the Netherlands.
