Frederik de Groot

<h2 id="career">Career</h2>
<p>In the Netherlands he appeared in the detective series <i>Bureau Kruislaan</i> and its spin-off <i>Unit 13</i>.
</p><p>He is known in <a href="/facts/Canada/cWWFM8oc">Canada</a> where he was the television spokesman for <a href="/facts/ING_Direct_Canada/H0YooCvW">ING Direct</a> for many years. The marketing campaign was developed by GWP Brand Engineering. They picked an actor with a foreign accent so that customers would not be surprised to learn the bank was also foreign.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a> De Groot also speaks French, and is unusual among Canadian spokespeople for also appearing in the company's <a href="/facts/French_Canadian/CfYF8yXT">French Canadian</a> language spots.
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<h2 id="personal-life">Personal life</h2>
<p>He has been married since 1997 to Marja Bakker, with whom he has three children. He had a relationship with actress <a href="/facts/Fiona_Gaunt/X29bcWVz">Fiona Gaunt</a>, with whom he had a daughter, <a href="/facts/Genevieve_Gaunt/pQ9axj5y">Genevieve Gaunt</a>, who is also an actress, and portrayed <a href="/facts/Pansy_Parkinson/pdBqAv9U">Pansy Parkinson</a> in <i><a href="/facts/Harry_Potter_and_the_Prisoner_of_Azkaban_(film)/QNCYuYMJ">Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban</a></i>.
</p><p>Frederik and his wife Marja own theatre company Living Productions – Hoorn.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a>
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<h2 id="filmography">Filmography</h2>
<ul><li><i><a href="/facts/Pastorale_1943/HVCmk6dF">Pastorale 1943</a></i> (1978)</li>
<li><i>The Little Riders</i> (1996) .... Father Hugo</li>
<li><i>Sinterklaas en het uur van de waarheid</i> (2006) .... Inspecteur Jankers</li>
<li><i>Sinterklaas en het geheim van het grote boek</i> (2008) .... Inspecteur Jankers</li>
<li><i>Verloren Jaren</i> (2010) .... Studieleider regie</li>
<li><i><a href="/facts/Bernhard%2c_schavuit_van_Oranje/yVmTwbE9">Bernhard, schavuit van Oranje</a></i> (2010) .... <a href="/facts/Willem_Drees/xqfYBsuA">Willem Drees</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0343190/">Frederik de Groot</a> at <a href="/facts/IMDb_(identifier)/uWrqVYVy">IMDb</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>The Hard Sell: Rob's Weekly Ad Review. Keith McArthur. The Globe and Mail. Toronto, Ont.: 8 May 2007. pg. B.4 <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Living Productions <a href="http://www.livingproductions.nl/index1.php" target="_blank">http://www.livingproductions.nl/index1.php</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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Frederik de Groot