Bio
Jennifer Steyn is a South African actress and director best known for her starring television roles as Marge in Madam & Eve, as Gloria in Jacob's Cross and as Deborah Churchill in Fallen.
Other television series she has acted in include Shado's, Shooting Stars, Sorted, Zero Tolerance, End of the Road, Onder Draai die Duiwel Rond, Soul Buddyz, Jozi Streets, Charlie Jade, Home Affairs, Justice for All, Jozi-H, The Human Family, The Principal, The Big Time, Clean Hands and Natural Rhythm.
Steyn also has an extensive film resume having appeared in Cry the Beloved Country, Master Harold and the Boys, Gums and Noses, Goodbye Bafana, Red Dust, The Lovers, Merlin: The Return, Glory Glory, Pure Blood, Borderline, Duma, Free Fall, Windprints, Zimbabwe, Night Drive and Black Butterflies, among others.
In addition, Steyn has appeared in numerous theatre productions, including The Fall of the House of Usher, Under Milkwood, Angels in America, Anthony and Cleopatra, Macbeth, King Lear, The Woman Who Cooked Her Husband, Old Boys and Green Man Fishing.
Jennifer is a also an in-demand voice-over artist with clients like BMW, Exclusive Books, Landrover, Stuttafords, MTN, FNB, Liberty life, Staysoft, Edgars and many others.
She has been nominated for numerous acting awards, including the Fleur du Cap for Best Actress for her role in Green Man Flashing and Dalro awards for Apparently... or so I Heard, The Dark Outsider, Sweet Phoebe, Skylight and Copenhagen.
She was also nominated for a Dalro award for Apparently... or so I Heard and a Fleur du Cap for Molly Bloom. She was nominated for a SAFTA award for her role in the film Goodbye Bafana.
She also won the Fleur du Cap award for Best Actress for her role in Blue Remembered Hills.
She also played the role of Thuli's eccentric madam Mrs Flamming in the SABC1/SABC2 sitcom Abo Mzala.