Leon van Waas
Artist, Actor, and Filmmaker in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Born Aquarius 1974 in a small village in the North of the Netherlands, I became fascinated by the overwhelming beauty of Nature and felt home ever since. After some what years I moved over, near Amsterdam and experienced life in the Big City.
Later on I noticed that some events and meetings weren’t just coincidentally happening and when I had the chance to meet various people and had experienced a variety of situations, it was clear to me, that I decided to become an actor. The neverending creativity with the ability to feel intensely captured my full time imagination and because of the expressive way of being a passionate story teller, I eventually managed to create my own way into the field.
I started 10 years ago as an extra, I did some acting workshops, crashed down a couple of times, studied at the Academy of Theater in Amsterdam and last year I was asked for 3 months, to live in Los Angeles by this filmmaker, for the co lead role as head of the CIA . . . during this exciting journey of a decade, I developed some more Art forms