---
name: "Janine Eser"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/janine-eser"
fi1m_id: "janine-eser"
imdb_id: "nm0260549"
tmdb_id: 112341
wikidata_id: "Q72044125"
roles: ["Actor"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-11T23:23:19.196296+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Janine Eser

## Identity

Janine Eser

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/janine-eser
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** janine-eser
- **IMDb ID:** nm0260549
- **TMDB ID:** 112341
- **Wikidata ID:** Q72044125
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q72044125, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0260549/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/112341

Actor.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q72044125, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0260549/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/112341

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*A Reasonable Man*](https://film.one/film/a-reasonable-man.md) (68)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Janine Eser is a South African-American actor, writer and producer. She appeared on stage in Johannesburg productions of *Six Degrees of Separation* (1991) and *Oleanna* (1993). Her film and television acting credits include Jennifer Raine in *A Reasonable Man* (1999), the Mother in the television film *Alice in Wonderland* (1999), Dr Kate Brecher in *Alien Hunter* (2003), Lady Elaine in the mini-series *Merlin* (1998), and roles in *Rhodes* (1996) and *Inside* (1996).

Eser later moved into writing and production. She was script editor and associate producer on the Academy Award-winning film *Tsotsi* (2005), co-wrote the screenplay for *Fanie Fourie's Lobola* (2013) and wrote the mini-series *Madiba* (2017).

*Sources: imdb.com, esat.sun.ac.za, wikidata.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *A Reasonable Man* (1999), Fi1m 68, as Jennifer Raine — [page](https://film.one/film/a-reasonable-man.md)

## Complete filmography (8)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Fanie Fourie's Lobola* (2013), Screenplay, Producer
- *Alien Hunter* (2003), as Dr. Kate Brecher
- *Undertaker's Paradise* (2000), Actor
- *A Reasonable Man* (1999), as Jennifer Raine — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/a-reasonable-man.md)
- *Alice in Wonderland* (1999), as Mother
- *The Storekeeper* (1998), Producer, Costume Supervisor
- *Inside* (1996), as Christie Malcolm
- *Tales of Mystery and Imagination* (1995), series, as Ligeia

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