---
name: "Nelly Frijda"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/nelly-frijda"
fi1m_id: "nelly-frijda"
imdb_id: "nm0295747"
tmdb_id: 34871
wikidata_id: "Q1555445"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "4 May 1936"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T00:56:56.894309+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."
---

# Nelly Frijda

## Identity

Nelly Frijda

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/nelly-frijda
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** nelly-frijda
- **IMDb ID:** nm0295747
- **TMDB ID:** 34871
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1555445
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelly_Frijda, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1555445, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0295747/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/34871

Actor. Born 4 May 1936 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 4 May 1936, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
- **Also known as:** Nelly Wiegel, Ma flodder
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelly_Frijda, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1555445, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0295747/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/34871

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*A Question of Silence*](https://film.one/film/a-question-of-silence.md) (79)

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

## Biography

Nelly Frijda (born Nelly Wiegel) is a Dutch actress and cabaret performer. She made her stage debut in 1955 in Wim Kan's cabaret and later appeared in plays, musicals and around twenty films, including four directed by Pim de la Parra.

She is best known for playing Ma Flodder in the three *Flodder* films (1986, 1992 and 1995) and the associated television series (1993–1999). Earlier film roles include a part in *Keetje Tippel* (1975) and Annie in *A Question of Silence* (1982). She has also provided Dutch voice-overs for animated films such as *The Little Mermaid* (1989) and *The Lion King II: Simba's Pride* (1998). Frijda retired from the stage in 2012.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *A Question of Silence* (1982), Fi1m 79, as Annie — [page](https://film.one/film/a-question-of-silence.md)

## Complete filmography (25)

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

- *Omega* (2012), as Johanna van der Geest
- *Annie MG* (2010), series, as Dieuwer
- *Spion van Oranje* (2009), as Moeder Irma
- *Sinterklaas en het Uur van de Waarheid* (2006), as Dr. Grein
- *Het zwijgen* (2006), as Notaris
- *Ellis in Glamourland* (2004), as Mother of Ellis
- *Young Kees* (2003), as Opoe Bakels
- *Wet & Waan* (2000), series, as Oda Ringholz
- *Mijn Franse tante Gazeuse* (1996), as Burgemeester
- *Flodder 3* (1995), as Ma Flodder
- *Flodder* (1993), series, as Ma Flodder
- *Flodder Does Manhattan!* (1992), as Ma Flodder
- *The Johnsons* (1992), as Tante van Peter
- *Eline Vere* (1991), as Mevrouw Verstraeten
- *Han de Wit* (1990), as mother
- *Flodder* (1986), as Ma Flodder
- *Intoxicated* (1986), as Hoer
- *Hitting the Fan!* (1986), as Dr. Ellis K.P.R.
- *A Question of Silence* (1982), as Annie — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/a-question-of-silence.md)
- *Cha-Cha* (1979), Actor
- *Katie Tippel* (1975), as Harenwaster
- *My Nights with Susan, Sandra, Olga & Julie* (1975), as Piet
- *Rubia's Jungle* (1970), as Journalist
- *Moutarde of Sonaansee* (1958), as Caroline Tulipe
- *En Ik Van Jou*, as Anneke

## Gallery

- ![Portret van de jonge actrice Nelly Frijda, december 1963](https://film.one/media/person/3923885/gallery-7697d4126845.jpg) Portret van de jonge actrice Nelly Frijda, december 1963 — Ben van Meerendonk / AHF, collectie IISG, Amsterdam, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/12-00-1963_19542_Nelly_Frijda.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Nelly Frijda](https://film.one/media/person/3923885/gallery-720dd3a0c191.jpg) Nelly Frijda — Jos van Zetten from Amsterdam, the Netherlands, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/89/Nelly_Frijda_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

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