Rolanda Marais

Rolanda Marais

Born: January 19, 1978
in South Africa

Movies for Rolanda Marais...

Title: Plan B
Character: Margo Law
Released: March 26, 2024
Type: TV
Miniseries based on the novel by Deon Meyer which tells the story of the hunt for a stolen painting by three people with different interests in it. Plan B is the story of a man with a military background, Ivan Malan, and his partner, Paul Schmidt, who rob a gangster and steal The Fire Maiden – a painting by the Dutch master Vermeer worth €30-million.
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Griekwastad
Title: Griekwastad
Character: Henriette de Waal
Released: June 5, 2020
Type: Movie
In 2012, Deon Steenkamp was murdered along with his wife Christel and their teenage daughter Marthella on their farm Naauwhoek. GRIEKWASTAD, based on the bestselling true crime novel by Jacques Steenkamp, tells the tale of the search to find the truth around these murders, however difficult and upsetting it may be.
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Sulphur & White
Title: Sulphur & White
Character: Anneke
Released: February 28, 2020
Type: Movie
David is a successful city trader in London who is relentlessly focused on work. Beneath the confident facade, he is trapped by memories of the past and hostile to anyone who dares to help. Flashbacks reveal a childhood in South Africa at the mercy of an inadequate bully of a father Donald and an ineffectual mother Joanne. The physical and sexual abuse he suffered threatens any chance of happiness he might have now.
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Poppie Nongena
Title: Poppie Nongena
Character: Magriet Swanepoel
Released: January 31, 2020
Type: Movie
Based on a true story: South Africa, mid 70s. When her husband becomes too ill to work, Poppie is deemed by the law to be an illegal resident in her own country. Based on the Elsa Joubert novel regarded as one of the best African novels of the century.
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Title: Trackers
Character: Milla Strachan
Released: October 26, 2019
Type: TV
Three story strands are interwoven into a sophisticated action-packed thriller that covers the length and breadth of South Africa, explosively colliding in Cape Town in a violent conspiracy involving organized crime, smuggled diamonds, state security, Black Rhinos, the CIA and an international terrorist plot.
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Title: Die Testament
Character: Annchen Weyers
Released: September 2, 2019
Type: TV
A story about family. About legacy. About building up and tearing down. a story of secrets and lies. A story of how the sins of the fathers visit their children and raises the question of whether blood really crawls where it cannot run.
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Die Seemeeu
Title: Die Seemeeu
Character: Nina
Released: April 5, 2019
Type: Movie
Christiaan Olwagen (Johnny is nie Dood nie, Kanarie) adapts Anton Chekhov's classic play, The Seagull, to film, and places it in South Africa in the 1990’s, almost one hundred years after it was written.
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Title: Fynskrif
Character: Christelle
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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Johnny is not Dead
Title: Johnny is not Dead
Character: Lise
Released: August 31, 2016
Type: Movie
A look into the tumultuous life of Johannes Kerkorrel and the Voëlvry movement during Apartheid South-Africa
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Title: Die Byl
Character: Carien van der Bijl
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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Free State
Title: Free State
Released: April 27, 2016
Type: Movie
Jeanette is a beautiful open minded law student. She decided to study while her boyfriend is completing his national military service. They are set to be engaged when he returns. During her summer holiday with her father in the Free State a random act of kindness by an attractive Indian man sparks an unexpected love affair. Despite being warned not to act on these feelings she decides to pursue this relationship. Secret meetings followed, since it was against the law at the time to have an interracial relationship. When their secret comes out, it leads to a very tragic turn of events.
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Title: Bloedbroers
Character: Ingrid Retief
Released: October 13, 2015
Type: TV
Four young men are trying to find their way in a new country, fighting from their dirt poor beginnings to make their names in this gritty period drama.
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Ballade vir 'n Enkeling
Title: Ballade vir 'n Enkeling
Character: Lena Aucamp Snr
Released: March 20, 2015
Type: Movie
Based upon the book written by South African author Leon van Nierop, and the 1980s TV series it spawned, this drama focuses on the mysterious disappearance of celebrated writer Jacques Rynhard (Armand Aucamp), and the investigative hunt for him launched by journalist Carina Human (DonnaLee Roberts). Christia Visser, Rolanda Marais and Jacques Bessenger co-star.
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Title: Vlug Na Egipte
Character: Gertjie de Beer
Released: January 13, 2015
Type: TV
The fact that they are living in the house belonging to the Master - may rest in peace - some residents of Breipaal raise the armor, make others uncomfortable and then there are those who predict that nothing can be done here Not especially after the murder of one of the residents. When Master appeared in the Haasbroek daughter inexplicably one night, things began to take a path that nobody could provide. All four tensions sometimes high and sometimes they sometimes make them sleepy, all at 'The Paal' - Brown and White, Incommers and old residents - are just people who have to overcome many obstacles in order to realize their dreams and ideals and to fear their fears overcome.
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Title: Republiek van Zoid Afrika
Character: Self
Released: July 10, 2014
Type: TV
Karen Zoid's talk show with comic sketches, visits with influential and exceptional people, and music that will take your breath away.
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The Ballad of Robbie de Wee
Title: The Ballad of Robbie de Wee
Character: Louise van Jaarsveld
Released: October 23, 2013
Type: Movie
Len van Jaarsveld used to be on the top of his game. As one of the country’s leading music producers he had it all: the stars, the hits, the connections and the. But it all came crashing down: his wife left him, his bands abandoned him, the creditors moved in and he found himself on the street with nothing. As he’s about to hit rock bottom Len is introduced to a rising new star Robbie de Wee. A shy young man with an amazing natural talent, this youngster has success written all over him. Len sees this kid as a ticket back into the music industry and he’s determined to make him a star. He takes Robbie on, organizing tours, publicity, music videos and helps Robbie climb the ladder to stardom while rediscovering his own formidable business talents. But when a young girl is found dead in the singer’s hotel room, Len goes into overdrive to protect his star from the media and the authorities.
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Title: High Rollers
Character: Analine King
Released: April 2, 2013
Type: TV
High Rollers is a South African television drama series-turned-telenovela created by Joshua Rous and Luke Rous and produced by Rous House Productions which is an inter-generational family drama set against the backdrop of the glamorous and backstabbing world of gambling.
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Wolwedans In Die Skemer
Title: Wolwedans In Die Skemer
Character: Sonja Daneel
Released: October 5, 2012
Type: Movie
A young woman, Sonja Daneel, crashes her car near the spectacular Hotel Njala in Hazyview and loses her memory. Upon her arrival at the hotel, she gets involved with an obsessed family whose lives are controlled by this spooky, eerie hotel. She also quickly discovers that family secrets and an obsession with the past haunt and control their every move. Sonja soon falls in love with the enigmatic Ryno Lategan, a tour guide who befriends her and promises to help her regain her memory. But when a vicious axe murderer starts terrorising Sonja, she realizes that she has some strange connection to this hotel in her past and that this connection could cost her her life. Things change when an eccentric investigator, Lieutenant Conrad Nolte and his assistant, Sergeant Berta van Schalkwyk, start investigating the murders at Hotel Njala and make some startling discoveries that even shock these two hardened investigators.
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Title: Binnelanders
Character: Stefanie Louw
Released: October 13, 2005
Type: TV
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.
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Title: Binnelanders
Character: Stefanie Malherbe
Released: October 13, 2005
Type: TV
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.
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Title: Charlie Jade
Character: Blues Paddock
Released: April 16, 2005
Type: TV
Charlie Jade is a science fiction television program filmed mainly in Cape Town, South Africa. It stars Jeffrey Pierce in the title role, as a detective from a parallel universe who finds himself trapped in our universe. This is a Canadian and South African co-production filmed in conjunction with CHUM Television and the South African Industrial Development Corporation. The special effects were produced by the Montreal-based company Cinegroupe led by Michel Lemire. The show started in 2004 and was aired on the Canadian Space Channel. It premiered on the Space Channel April 16, 2005 and aired in Eastern Europe, France, Italy, on SABC 3 in South Africa, on Fox Japan, and on AXN in Hong Kong. The show began airing in the United Kingdom in October 2007, on FX. The Sci Fi Channel in the United States premiered the show on June 6, 2008, but after 2 episodes on Friday prime-time, moved it to overnight Mon/Tue.
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Dead Easy
Title: Dead Easy
Released: December 13, 2004
Type: Movie
A married couple are about to face a series of difficult problems. The two engage in an escalating series of infidelities and mind games that could very well lead to their mutual destruction.
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The Man in the Mirror
Title: The Man in the Mirror
Character: Rachel
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Set in Zululand South Africa three Zulu men must re-awaken sleeping demons when Mpiyakhe, now a successful Johannesburg businessman, returns home. Under adversity they are compelled to make life changing choices.