Joris Jacques Kees Putman (born 24 July 1984 at Noordwijk in the
Netherlands) is a Dutch actor.Joris' mother is a non-western
sociologist and his father is a documentary film-maker. From the age
of three months until he was nine he and his parents lived out of
Europe, firstly in Burkina Faso, West Africa, later in Bangkok, and
from 1990 in Semarang in Indonesia, before returning to the
Netherlands in 1993.He first acted aged 7 in a Dutch film called
"Oeroeg" ("Going Home") shot in Indonesia.While at school in the
Netherlands he acted in independent films and on TV. After finishing
secondary school he moved to the UK to attend London Academy of
Performing Arts (LAPA). After occasional film parts and, from 2000
onwards, some English language stage roles, he was given the part of
Morris Fischer in the popular and long-running Dutch soap opera "Goede
Tijden, Slechte Tijden" ("Good Times, Bad Times"), which he played
from 2004 until the end of 2006. March 2007 he became the winner of
the Dutch "Dancing on Ice" TV contest. Currently he plays in two TV
series: "The Sportlets" and "Puppy Patrol". He has developed his own
programme for young people "Green Dream District" about new
sustainable inventions which will show on "National Geographic" Youth
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