Erica Wessels

Erica Wessels


in Johannesburg, South Africa
Erica Wessels is a South African actress who has appeared in many TV series and movies including Troy: Fall of a City, Labyrinth, Warrior and more. She clearly shows off her diversity as an actress by appearing in different roles such as Mrs Scott in The Book of Negroes and Penelope in Troy: Fall of a City.

Movies for Erica Wessels...

Title: Donkerbos
Character: Fanie
Released: November 29, 2022
Type: TV
When the bodies of six children are found in the backwater forests of Donkerbos, Limpopo, an ostracised detective must wrestle with her dark past, her family and a distrustful community to catch the killer before another child is taken.
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Wild Is the Wind
Title: Wild Is the Wind
Released: October 28, 2022
Type: Movie
When two corrupt police officers investigate the brutal murder of a young girl, tensions come to a head in their small, racially-segregated town.
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Good Life
Title: Good Life
Character: Olive
Released: September 9, 2021
Type: Movie
Olive Pappadopoulous, 35, an Oral Hygienist, flees Cape Town for Greece to try outwit a broken heart, but is faced with the local villagers hostility and is befriended by a 7-year-old refugee who teaches her how to live “The Good Life.”
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I Am All Girls
Title: I Am All Girls
Character: Jodie Snyman
Released: May 14, 2021
Type: Movie
A special crimes investigator forms an unlikely bond with a serial killer to bring down a global child sex trafficking syndicate.
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Title: Warrior
Character: Billie
Released: April 5, 2019
Type: TV
A gritty, action-packed crime drama set during the brutal Tong Wars of San Francisco’s Chinatown in the second half of the 19th century. The series follows Ah Sahm, a martial arts prodigy who immigrates from China to San Francisco under mysterious circumstances, and becomes a hatchet man for one of Chinatown’s most powerful tongs.
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Title: Dwaalster
Character: Ragel-Lee
Released: January 8, 2019
Type: TV
Dwaalster is a South African, Afrikaans-language television drama series created by Nicola Hanekom and set in the fictional Karoo town of Maanhaarsdrif, which is populated by interesting and mysterious residents. In Maanhaarsdrif there is also a fixation with stars and stargazing, while some inhabitants are even moonstruck (proverbially speaking).
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Far From The Castle
Title: Far From The Castle
Released: December 1, 2018
Type: Movie
On the dry and desolate Southern tip of Africa, a tug of war unfolds between earthly desire and soul calling, between Drought and Water, between Maddox and Eliza.
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The Harvesters
Title: The Harvesters
Character: Anel
Released: August 23, 2018
Type: Movie
South Africa, Free State region, isolated stronghold to the Afrikaans white ethnic minority culture. In this conservative farming territory obsessed with strength and masculinity, Janno is different, secretive, emotionally frail. One day his mother, fiercely religious, brings home Pieter, a hardened street orphan she wants to save, and asks Janno to make this stranger into his brother. The two boys start a fight for power, heritage and parental love.
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Title: Fynskrif
Character: Tamryn
Released: July 10, 2018
Type: TV
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.
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Van der Merwe
Title: Van der Merwe
Character: Elmarie
Released: July 28, 2017
Type: Movie
Van der Merwe, a bumbling farmer from a traditional Afrikaans family, struggles to keep his family together when his daughter returns from England with her British fiancé and family.
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Hatchet Hour
Title: Hatchet Hour
Character: Isabelle Sudlow
Released: November 4, 2016
Type: Movie
Secrets test a friendship in this crime drama. A lawyer at a top firm accidentally kills her gardener. Fearing for her career, she asks her best friend to help her get rid of the body.
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My Father's War
Title: My Father's War
Character: Karina Smit
Released: August 5, 2016
Type: Movie
In this unique and riveting film, a troubled man has a series of dreams in which he finds himself thrown back to a time before his birth, into the Angolan Border War, as a combat soldier. There he meets his father as a young man, when he was a member of the Special Forces. As they go through combat together, the son gets to know his father in a way he never has, giving him insight and compassion, and he is able to let go of lifelong feelings of abandonment, resentment and anger. This leads to forgiveness and a real-life reconciliation, which drives home the underlying message of this film restoring the hearts of the fathers to the children and the hearts of the children to the fathers.
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Title: Die Byl
Character: Lorien
Released: July 12, 2016
Type: TV
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.
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Mossie
Title: Mossie
Character: Nicola Prinsloo
Released: May 6, 2016
Type: Movie
I am Luna van Wyk. A 14 year old girl. This is the story of Mignon "Mossie" Van Wyk, my older sister. Oh and her best friend Adriaan Prinsloo, who I think she should marry. But that's just me. For some weird reason Mossie falls in love with older guys - enter Leon Rossouw - obviously without a shirt. This is a story about love, naturally, but it's more about being a teenager and how rough life can be. It's a story about monsters and running shoes. About letting go and holding on. About friendship. It's a story about my sister and how she learns to fly.
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Title: Die Boekklub
Character: Nadia
Released: January 12, 2016
Type: TV
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.
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Love & Me
Title: Love & Me
Character: Ella
Released: December 16, 2015
Type: Movie
The only cure prescribed for a broken heart is a heavy dose of love and some Christmas pudding. Dr Louis van Est is a professional when it comes to the anatomy of the human body, yet he knows nothing about the condition of the human heart. As a GP, he is not the stereotypical clean cut doctor; in fact he retreats home to his laptop where he escapes from his bland life to another world world. Ella Gouws, a straightforward, straight-speaking thirty year old, has been wounded by love one too many times and won't let anyone close enough to break her already broken heart, again apart from her online chat buddy with whom she shares her dreams, thoughts and philosophies.
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Treurgrond
Title: Treurgrond
Character: Nellie van Staden
Released: May 29, 2015
Type: Movie
Treurgrond tells the painful story of a farming community in South Africa trying to survive the numerous farm attacks confronting farmers almost every day. These gruesome acts affect not just those closely related to the victims, but set in motion a chain of events. Amidst the pressure and anxiety increased by the growing number of farm murders, Lukas Van Staden tries to protect his family, his friends and his farm.
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Alles Wat Mal Is
Title: Alles Wat Mal Is
Character: Helena Joubert / Alter Ego
Released: August 8, 2014
Type: Movie
Helena Joubert lost herself somewhere between her Varsity love, the big, crazy wedding, and her two hyperactive kids. She and hubby Gustav exchanged their passionate relationship for a permanent seize-fire. The once uninhibited and vibrant journalist is now just a few fading photographs on the wall. And then, her world is shattered when Gustav apparently starts an affair with the very big investor who just might be the savior of his company – Elzaan Mostert. Enter Helena’s alter ego, the can-do, let’s-make-a-plan, nothing-is-impossible younger version of herself. Alter Ego comes up with the idea of starting a blog called Alles wat Mal is (Everything Crazy), documenting Helena’s hectic life, and her quest to win back Gustav’s affection, and put a spark back into her marriage.
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Jimmy in Pink
Title: Jimmy in Pink
Character: Bride
Released: August 16, 2013
Type: Movie
Jimmy in Pienk is a quirky comedy about Jimmy Bester, a rugged seventh generation "mielie" farmer. Jimmy’s father suddenly dies in a freak accident, he is confronted by two loan sharks who come to collect what his father owes. Jimmy gathers the courage to leave his home and travel to Cape Town to seek help from his uncle, and he is not prepared for what awaits him.
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The Miracle Worker
Title: The Miracle Worker
Character: Jane Brayshaw 1934
Released: September 7, 2012
Type: Movie
Die Wonderwerker tells the story of Eugène Marais, a famous Afrikaans writer, poet and researcher. The story focuses on the few months he spends on the Van Rooyen's farm, where he falls in love with the 19-year-old Jane Brayshaw.
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Title: Vallei van Sluiers
Character: Deirdre Mohr
Released: April 20, 2010
Type: TV
A South African, Afrikaans-language television drama series which revolves around three well-known Boland fruit farming families - the De Bruyns, the Roberts' and the Van Rhijns - and the people who are drawn into their disasters, quarrels and scandals.
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Title: Erfsondes
Character: Amore Duvenhage
Released: July 3, 2007
Type: TV
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.
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Katvis
Title: Katvis
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Lize has never asked for too much of life. She's mostly happy with her marriage, but Lize has always dreamed of being a mother, and she and her husband, Willem, just do not want it to be happy. With family pressure slowly getting worse and the ticking of the biological clock getting louder, the news of Willem's sterility overturned her identity as a woman. When the dream is shattered, Lize and Willem forget about society's conventions and plan to make it a reality. Can they carry out the plan without losing themselves in the process?