Cherie van der Merwe
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Cherie van der Merwe is a South African actress best known for her role as Katrien Swanepoel in the feature film Bakgat (2008) and its sequel, Bakgat 2, in 2010.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Johannesburg, South Africa
Birthday: January 31, 1985
Adult: No
Gender: Female
Popularity:
Known For:
Bakgat!
Overview: Katrien (Cherié van der Merwe) is dumped by her boyfriend, high school rugby star Werner (Altus Theart), so he can focus his energy on the sport. To get even, she makes a bet with her friends that she can make a star out of the school's dorkiest boy, 'Wimpie' Koekemoer (Ivan Botha), by pretending to be his girlfriend. The awkward Koekemoer rises to the challenge but Katrien finds herself falling unexpectedly in love with him, until he realizes she is merely using him.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-04-11
Popularity:
Vaatjie gets owned
Overview: The misadventures Vaatjie Venter, a talented pastry chef and the top student at the hotel school where he is training. Vattjie becomes the lead candidate to win a scholarship to train under world famous master chef Pierre Cousteau in Paris. But Vaatjie's charmed life is tested to its limits when his jealous classmate James tries to prevent Vaatije from winning the opportunity of a lifetime.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: af
Release Date: 2008-12-24
Popularity:
Bakgat 2
Overview: The Unitas u/21 rugby team hero, Wimpie Koekemoer, is offered a contract to play rugby in England. Katrien rehearses a play with autistic children, while doing everything in her power to keep Wimpie in the country. Fanie is struggling to get used to Christie's post-high school chubby body and Japie is experiencing a very embarrassing problem in his sexual pursuit of Liezl... Muscle man, Werner "Killer" Botha joins the Unitas rugby team and threatens Wimpie's position in the team. (Written by Henk Pretorius)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-09-10
Popularity:
Bakgat 3
Overview: Rugby hero, Wimpie Koekemoer, and his wild friends return to our screens in the third instalment of the successful Bakgat! movies. Newly engaged couple, Wimpie and Katrien, move to London where Wimpie has received a contract to play rugby. However, he has to face stark reality when he arrives and realises that his dreams of fame and fortune were only an illusion. His apartment is everything but the palace he had imagined - and his teammates make his life unbearable from the get go.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-05
Popularity:
Blood Suckers
Overview: When two amateur hunters accidentally capture their first ever vampire, they are launched on a journey that will take them out into the Klein Karoo to track down and kill an evil blood sucking Prince known as Wyker, thereby fulfilling an ancient prophecy. The only problem, is that the prophecy is a vampire one...and Wyker knows they're coming!
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-01
Popularity:
Fanie Fourie's Lobola
Overview: After Fanie takes Dinky, a strong Zulu woman, to his Afrikaans family wedding, the two find an unexpectedly fun cross-cultural romance. But in order to marry Dinky, Fanie must negotiate to pay Lobola (a South African dowry).
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-03-01
Popularity:
Potshot
Overview: Fanus, tired of life and alone, is incompetent to take his own life. The nosy caretaker, who is always looking for her rent money but is actually looking for a friend for her wheelchair bound son, complicates the situation as well.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: af
Release Date: 2016-08-26
Popularity: