Elize Cawood

Elize Cawood

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Stroomop
Title: Stroomop
Character: Dr. Ezra
Released: August 9, 2018
Type: Movie
A support group travels to the Orange River. A doctor, 2 moms, a daughter and a suicidal woman leave for their "veldskool" trip. Many trials, tribulations and truths are revealed as they go on this epic adventure.
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My Mum's Bonkers
Title: My Mum's Bonkers
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: March 22, 2017
Type: Movie
About the loss of a mother, with her unexpected exuberance, but who also cries Puccini melodies. A short poetic collage, as fleeting as the blink of an eye, where sounds and images are superimposed to evoke the at once peaceful and tormented memory of a mother.
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For The Birds
Title: For The Birds
Character: Ouma
Released: November 25, 2016
Type: Movie
Irma is a tomboy who believes independence is the only form of freedom. Then she meets Sampie, a charming rugby player with a heart of gold and oh-so-soft hands who sweeps her right off her feet to the altar, but not before she teaches him a thing or two.
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Sy Klink Soos Lente
Title: Sy Klink Soos Lente
Character: Tannie Martie
Released: September 30, 2016
Type: Movie
Ben, a mechanic at a Johannesburg car dealership, and Linda, a beautiful, smart redhead, cross paths one night. He immediately recognises her as his boss’s daughter, although she has no idea who he is. They’re immediately attracted to each other, and, in a frantic and uncertain effort to disguise his identity, Ben lies to Linda and claims to be in a band. When their love blossoms unexpectedly and he decides that he wants to live up to his lie, he starts a band with a few fellow employees, and they enroll for a battle-of-the-bands competition.
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Vir Altyd
Title: Vir Altyd
Character: Ouma Betsie van Zyl
Released: February 12, 2016
Type: Movie
Childhood friends, Nina and Hugo chose different paths in life. Years later, Hugo returns to his hometown unbeknownst to him, the day before Nina's wedding. Events on the wedding day throw them back together and they embark on a new adventure.
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Dis ek, Anna
Title: Dis ek, Anna
Character: Adv. Gouws
Released: October 23, 2015
Type: Movie
Set in modern-day South Africa, it tells the story of Anna Bruwer, who avenges years of abuse suffered at the hands of her stepfather and the court case that ensues.
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Lien se Lankstaanskoene
Title: Lien se Lankstaanskoene
Character: Roos
Released: May 3, 2013
Type: Movie
This coming-of-age drama tells about a high school girl who resorts to begging to support her family. Lien Jooste’s life falls apart when her father is arrested for fraud and her mother develops a drinking problem. They lose everything and go from being an upstanding, affluent family living in a nice neighbourhood to a broken mess – living in a small flat and struggling to get by. Due to her mother’s drinking, Lien has to take on the role of mother for both her mom and her younger brother Braam.
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The Miracle Worker
Title: The Miracle Worker
Character: Maria van Rooyen
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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Liefling
Title: Liefling
Character: Elsa Ferreira
Released: November 19, 2010
Type: Movie
The name of the film, Liefling, says it all. This is a love story that's been told by using evergreen Afrikaans songs from the 70's up to the latest hits of today. This musical is mainly about the life of Liefling Marais, a girl with a passion for life, who loves adventure. Liefling lives on a farm with her father Simon, mother Linda, grandfather Karel, brother Kobus and house keeper Katy. Simon is a professor at the university where we meet the 3 friends, Jan, Pieter and Gert in one of his classes. They also live in Hartbeespoort Jan lives with his grandmother Elsa Ferreira. The story starts during the December holidays. A spoilt rich girl, Melanie von Staden has one thing in mind and that is to reel in heart throb Jan Ferreira who has his eye set on Liefling. Fate unexpectedly brings lovers, friends and so called enemies together. This is a love story full of tears and laughter, song and dance.
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Title: Proesstraat
Character: Self
Released: January 22, 2010
Type: TV
Proesstraat is an Afrikaans Television-Show which airs on kykNet based on the German improvisational comedy show Schillerstrasse. It is recorded without a script, in front of a live audience and broadcast unedited to a large extent.
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Title: The Coconuts
Character: Ouma
Released: January 9, 2008
Type: TV
A South African television sitcom which tells the story of a white family who transform into a black family after violating the burial grounds of an ancient tribe.
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Title: Andries Plak
Character: Heila Melck
Released: April 6, 2007
Type: TV
Andries Plak is a South African comedy-drama television series about a farmer who lost his farm in a legal dispute and is forced to squat in a shack with his former farm manager, which slowly changes his attitude towards people and life.
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Title: Binnelanders
Character: Susanna Meyer
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: Villa Rosa
Character: Rebecca Roux
Released: October 4, 2004
Type: TV
In Bloemfontein there is a guest house where the walls have ears and where there is daily drama, intrigue and also a lot of comedy.
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Red Dust
Title: Red Dust
Character: Anna Hoffman
Released: January 11, 2004
Type: Movie
Sarah Barcant, a lawyer in New York City who grew up in South Africa, returns to her childhood dwelling place to intercede for Alex Mpondo, a Black South African politician who was tortured during apartheid.
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The Long Run
Title: The Long Run
Character: Mrs Suiker
Released: May 4, 2001
Type: Movie
A failed track coach finally finds someone who he believes has what it takes to win. The Comrades Marathon is a 90-k race in South Africa. An aging running coach, Barry, wants to field a winner; he's working with four men from a factory, but when he's fired to make way for a smooth, corporate type, he's at loose ends. Then he sees Christine, a Namibian immigrant who runs to forget her troubles. He offers to coach her and soon she's living at his house, following his diet and training regimen. But his single-mindedness gets to her: she wants a job and a place of her own. Plus, the man who replaced Barry likes her and wants her away from Barry. Can runner and coach (woman and man, African and European) sort out their complex relationship before the race? Written by
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Lyklollery
Title: Lyklollery
Character: TV Lisensie Vrou
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
Everyone in Jolliefontein, a small rural town, is in a frenzy about the upcoming rugby match. A TV license inspector, while searching for licenses, crashes a few friends' rugby afternoon in front of the TV and suddenly dies. What should be done with the body now?
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Title: Torings
Character: Martha Haasbroek
Released: May 12, 1994
Type: TV
Torings (Towers) is a South African period drama television series created by Paul C. Venter as a sequel to his series Konings which continues to tell the story of the fierce and often bloody struggle between the Groenewald and Roodt families for control of the Superspaar company, placed in the context of the larger political post-Apartheid struggle in South Africa. The Konings/Torings saga is the story of the fierce and often bloody struggle between Dolf Groenewald (Dawid Minnaar) and Herman Roodt (Albert Maritz) for control of the Superspaar company, placed in the context of the larger political post-Apartheid struggle in South Africa. The eternal feud between the Groenewalds and Roodts becomes fiercer as Dolf recovers from his stroke and from the beginning is a threat for the Roodts
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Taxi to Soweto
Title: Taxi to Soweto
Character: Jessica du Toit
Released: October 31, 1991
Type: Movie
A Gentle story with a moral of forgive and forget at the kernel of its’ comedy exterior ~ but also one that accurately foretold the changes that were to sweep across South Africa in 1994, as an uptight suburban Johannesburg housewife (Elize Cawood, with an equally uptight husband played by Marius Weyers) accepts a lift from a Sowetan taxi driver (Patrick Shai) and gets taken into another world entirely
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The Fourth Reich
Title: The Fourth Reich
Character: Romy Taillard
Released: October 25, 1990
Type: Movie
Robey Leibbrandt was a South African boxer who became fascinated with Nazi ideology during the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. In1939 he led an operation to overthrow the pro-Allied government of General Jan Smuts.
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Title: Wasted Spring
Character: Pop le Roux
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: TV
Pop le Roux is a beautiful, but relatively uneducated, boer girl from a poor family. The young men of the county all compete with each other to win her favor. The man she loves is Manie Cronjé, He is just as poor and Pop sees no chance of suffering further. She eventually marries Jan Greyling, the rich widower. Gradually she adapts to her new life and becomes a good wife for Jan.
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What You Sow
Title: What You Sow
Character: Miss van Dyk
Released: August 29, 1979
Type: Movie
A bleak and violent story of delinquency and broken family ties. Christiaan MacDonald escapes from the reformatory where he has been serving a sentence for car theft and asks his sister Dina for help. When his father tells Christiaan he is adopted, and furthermore is banished from the MacDonald family, the young man responds with criminal behavior that rip the family apart.
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Title: Onder Draai Die Duiwel Rond
Character: Hester Bester
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
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.