# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/willemijn-verkaik
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:29:03.889Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/willemijn-verkaik"
name: "Willemijn Verkaik"
slug: "willemijn-verkaik"
description: "Willemijn Verkaik is a Dutch singer and actress. She is best known for her stage roles in the musicals Wicked and Elisabeth, and for providing the voice of Elsa in the German version and the Dutch version of Disney's Frozen. Verkaik is the only person to have played the role of Elphaba in the musical Wicked in three languages and more than 2,000 times – more than any other actress. Her first performance as Elphaba was in 2007, in Stuttgart, Germany, and her last performance was in 2017 in the West End in London."
tagline: "Dutch singer-actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Willemijn_Verkaik.png?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1975-06-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.45
  momentum:             5.202797202797202
  historical:           11.919448
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1801790/"
    handle:    "nm1801790"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/7KawEFi5g9T9cTCd92h7j9"
    handle:    "7KawEFi5g9T9cTCd92h7j9"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.willemijnverkaik.nl/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "ويليميچن ڤيركايك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Willemijn Verkaik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willemijn_Verkaik"
    title: "Willemijn Verkaik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willemijn_Verkaik"
    title: "Willemijn Verkaik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willemijn_Verkaik"
    title: "Willemijn Verkaik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willemijn_Verkaik"
    title: "Willemijn Verkaik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willemijn_Verkaik"
    title: "Willemijn Verkaik"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willemijn_Verkaik"
    title: "Willemijn Verkaik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willemijn_Verkaik"
    title: "Willemijn Verkaik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willemijn_Verkaik"
    title: "Willemijn Verkaik"
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  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/24cd1988-60cf-4c4f-8d68-c0bc0cb27577"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Willemijn Verkaik"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump