Biography

Terence Schreurs was born in a little village called Bovenkarspel. The daughter of Jacques Schreurs, a drummer of a rock'n'roll band and a businessman at IBM and Tine Schreurs a hair designer. Her mother Tine Schreurs is originally from a beautiful Island in Indonesia called Serua but lived in New Guinea Merauke. After WWII and the occupation of the Japanese her family fled to the Netherlands where she worked hard to start a new life and career in a new culture. This is where she met Jacques. They fell in love and started a loving family.

Schreurs spent the early years of her life in a little village near Amsterdam. She always chased storytelling adventures and wanted to be a dancer. For Schreurs the village was too small and she became rebellious. At the age of 15 she moved into the city and got into an art school. Her parents always supported and helped her to be independent and to follow her dreams. She loved the drama classes at school and started thinking and talking about becoming an actress. She took extra classes at multiple theater schools and institutes in the Netherlands, such as Theater School Amsterdam (AHK), Academy of Performative Arts Maastricht and ArteZ in Arnhem. She cooked, did groceries and assisted some great actors and filmmakers to get information about acting, screenwriting and the industry. From 2003 till 2013 she worked with great coaches such as Mark W. Travis (LA), Judith Weston (LA), Hetty MacDonalds (UK) and Rutger Hauer (LA/NL). Amsterdam was her home and base for inspiration as an actress.

Terence Schreurs worked extensively in theatre throughout the Netherlands. In 2003 she made her first television debut in the successful crime series Baantjer. Soon she booked more jobs for television and film, including productions like Costa! (2001), All Stars, Spangen, Intensive Care, De Band and Annie MG. She became a well known actress in the Netherlands and by 2008 she starred in two feature films; De Punt, by Hanro Smitsman, about a train hijacking by Moluccan freedom fighters. And Ver Van Familie, by Marion Bloem, About a young woman leaving the US to find her dying grandmother to get the truth about her father.

Productions that followed included big parts in high end productions like Van God Los, Zusjes, De Verbouwing and Cornea. In 2015 a lead in Kristen followed, the Dutch and English thriller by Mark Weistra travelled the world and the film and Terence won multiple awards.

About a decade ago she started as an acting coach. After being a pupil of Mark Travis and teaching at multiple theater and acting schools she developed her own method based on finding the psychological core of the story and characters. How to become the character from this core and not "acting" it. She started her own school called the Wolf'Qademy in 2015. She became a well known acting coach and coached and directed actors on productions like (De Boskampi's), Baantjer het Begin and Mocro Maffia. In recent years she worked on the film Pantser which won best short at the Dutch Academy Awards and on the successful WWII Netflix international co-production The Forgotten Battle, which was Netflix's most watched feature film world wide in Autumn 2021 and won awards around the globe.

- IMDb mini biography by: Benny Stroet