Huisman initially joined Season 4 as a guest star but was promoted to the main cast for the fifth season, even before Season 4 had aired in 2014. [1] Huisman was born on July 18, 1981 in Amstelveen, Noord-Holland, which is near Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Michiel is also a musician. TV has gotten perhaps better than your average film script, but at the same time, it's fun to give it all you've got for a few months and produce a story. Huisman has made several appearances in Dutch movies before he left to the USA. He appeared with Carice van Houten in the movie Black Book (2006). The band later split up and Huisman decided to pursue music on his own. To play different characters on a TV show where you're working every day, playing multiple characters every day, it's so ridiculously intense. Huisman first met his wife, Dutch actress Tara Elders, on the set of Phileine Says Sorry in 2003. Before, ‘The Flight Attendant’: Yasha Jackson To Recur On HBO Max Series, Premier League Announces Pay-Per-View Plan for League Matches – Mipcom Roundup, TNT Sets ‘Snowpiercer’ Season 2 Premiere Date (TV News Roundup), 10 Most Popular Characters of 2016 According to IMDb Users, Game of Thrones: Season 5 (2015) – Official Main Cast List, Gambit Casting for Disney's X-Men Reboot Movie, Bravest or Most Heroic "Game of Thrones" Character, Intriguing "Game of Thrones" Minor Characters, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Knowledge of Causes, and Secret Motion of Things, They Don't Make 'Em Like My Daddy Anymore, Luke Wilson - Michael Huisman - Begonia - Billie Eilish, Guest Co-Host Mark Consuelos/Famke Janssen/Michiel Huisman, Guest Co-Host Jerry O'Connell/Ed O'Neill/Michiel Huisman/Brandy Clark, Maya Rudolph/Michiel Huisman/Brandy Clark/John Tempesta, The Age of Adaline/Beyond the Reach/Brotherly Love/Little Boy, Ambi Light 'Interview' Opening Night Special, Playing Sadie: An interview with Lindsay Burdge, There is Nothing to be Afraid of: An interview with Nick Spicer, Tonight's the Night: An interview with Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi. Acting was one of the things I did alongside going to school: I'd be playing guitar, I'd be playing soccer, and I would be acting in movies. One of the fun things as an actor is to really spread your wings as wide as possible and do a variety of roles. By Kara Hedash Mar 14, 2019 Actor Michiel Huisman took over the role of Daario Naharis from Ed Skrein in Game of Thrones season 4 - but what was the real reason behind the recast? The band consisted of Huisman, Roland van der Hoofd, Gilles Tuinder and Bas van Geldere. View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro, Game of Thrones: Season 5 (2015) – Official Main Cast List, (February 2008 - Huisman has been cast to star in a Discovery Channel limited series titled Harley and the Davidsons with Game of Thrones co-star Robert Aramayo. Also, in Holland - as opposed to some other European countries - we don't dub anything, so as a kid growing up, always watching English and American movies in their original language really helped. There's a few more. Check out some of the IMDb editors' favorites movies and shows to round out your Watchlist. His maternal grandfather, Jacques Simon "Jack" Bles, a Dutch Jew with roots in the Netherlands going back to the 1600s, married Michiel's maternal grandmother, Ernestine Bartfeld, a German Jew, in Haifa, Israel after World War II. Michiel Huisman is a Dutch actor who portrays Daario Naharis from the fourth season and onward of Game of Thrones. Huisman and Elders both starred in two short films directed by Dirk Tuinder, Funny Dewdrop (2007) and Winterland (2009). Game of Thrones Wiki is a FANDOM TV Community. Official Sites. Before Game of Thrones (2011), Huisman had a role in Paul Verhoeven's acclaimed Black Book (2006), and he played Rudolf Nureyev in the BBC TV … Huisman was born on July 18, 1981 in Amstelveen, Noord-Holland, which is near Amsterdam, the Netherlands.