Jan Decleir
January Amanda Gustaaf Decleir ( born February 14, 1946 in Niel, Antwerp, Belgium) is a Flemish actor.
He began as a theater actor, but was known to film and television roles. One of his early films was Pallieter from 1976, in which he played Bohumil. The film Daens directed by Stijn Coninx, in which he played the lead role of the priest Adolf Daens was nominated in 1993 for an Oscar. In 1995 he played the role of farmers in Marleen Gorris Sebastian ' film Antonia's Line, which was awarded in 1996 with the Oscar for best foreign language film, he was also in 1997 Mike van Diem's drama Karakter in the role of the bailiff to see Dreverhaven that a year later also received this award at the Academy Awards. In 2003 he played the lead role of the contract assassin Angelo Ledda in the thriller Totgemacht - The Alzheimer Case, one of the most successful Belgian films of all time, who found no distributor in Germany. In children Decleir is known as Sinterklaas, he played a horse in the children and youth channel Ketnet the television station VRT and 2005 will in the feature film Winky.
Decleir was married to Caroline Van Castel, with whom he has three children. After his divorce he married the Dutch Brechtje Louwaard. His brother Dirk Decleir was also an actor, but died in 1974 in a traffic accident. His sister Reinhilde Decleir, his son and his daughter Sofie Jenne Decleir Decleir are actors.