Winner of Canary Wharf Entertainment Award London 2008 ,Dutch actor Emile Jansen was born 21 November 1959 in Apeldoorn, Netherlands. Aged five he decided to visit kids nursery school dressed like an Indian girl. Later this appeared to be his first role. After the Arnhem Drama School back in the 80s he went straight to work and appeared in numerous TV series and sit-CMOS both in The Netherlands and Germany. Canary Wharf London 2008 London honoured him for his lead role as CEO in mobile phone comedy series Shop-Spank. Recently he appeared as Frank Houwer in "Other Side of the Game"(UK) and Mr. Knopper in "Winter in Wartime"(NLD) .Today he is detective Huibert Rem in Dutch soap series "Goede Tijden , Slechte Tijden after the original Australian soap-series "Restless Years" and Jan in Dutch comedy series "De Hoofdprijs" (aka The Jackpot) He has just been cast as evil Dr. David Herschel in Rapture (UK/USA).