'Undercover' Season 2: Meet Tom Waes, Anna Drijver and rest of the cast of the Dutch-Belgian crime drama series
The second season of ‘Undercover’, Netflix’s Belgian-Dutch crime drama series is about to drop and it looks exciting. Season 2 picks up just after the events of season 1 focusing on a young undercover cop who infiltrates a powerful criminal organization and finds himself caught in a web of violence, treachery, and temptation.
Almost a year after the events of season 1, Kim (Anna Drijver) works for a human rights NGO. With the help of her former colleague Bob (Tom Waes), her investigation into illegal arms trade in Syria leads her to El Dorado Ranch, a horse riding ranch in the Belgian countryside. Bob goes undercover and tries to get into the good graces of the brothers Laurent and JP Berger, arms dealers.
Meanwhile from inside prison, Ferry Bouman (Frank Lammers) continues his search for the true identities of undercover agents Bob and Kim, while Bob’s teenage daughter Polly (Emma Verlinden) wants to find out for once and for all who her father really is.
The trailer for ‘Undercover’ Season 2 sets an exciting tone to the thriller series, promising some high-stakes tense situations and some high-octane action. But the show, more than its formulaic crime drama story and its slick visuals, owes its appeal to the actors. So, let’s take a look at the cast!
Tom Waes as Bob Lemmens
Waes is a Belgian television presenter, television director, actor, and singer. The 57-year-old was born on November 7, 1968, in Antwerp, Belgium. Waes wasn’t always on the screen. Before his television and film career, he worked for seven years on oil rigs as a deep-sea diver. After high school, Waes did a diving course in Scotland. The oil rigs career came after that.
Before he gained national (and international) fame, Waes appeared behind the camera for shows like ‘The Quizmaster’ and ‘The Last Show’. Almost a decade and a half ago, in 2005, Waes gained some fame and appreciation for his performance as the brother of Bart De Pauw in ‘Het Gender De Pauw’. Following that, he starred in ‘Offside’. The same year, he along with Koen Van Impe and Jan Van Looveren made the comedy television show, ‘Trigger Happy’.
In the years to come, Waes would often feature on television shows as a presenter, many of these were quiz shows. In 2008, Waes got his own TV show ‘Tomtesterom’. After three seasons of the show, Waes started the travel program ‘Reizen Waes’ in 2012, in which he visits dangerous and remote places. It is now in its fourth season.
Waes has three children and lives in Schoten, near Antwerp.
Anna Drijver as Kim De Rooij
The 36-year-old Dutch actor and model is a trained dancer. As per IMDb, from the age of six, Drijver trained in classical ballet. Born on October 1, 1983, in The Hague, Netherlands, Drijver and her brother were brought up in a commune. She started her career as a model at age 15 in 1998. During her secondary school, she traveled for her work as a model.
A few years later, she appeared in the television series ‘Goede Tijden, Slechte Tijden’, and ‘Bitches’, and in 2005, appeared in the films ‘Flirt’ and ‘Het Schnitzelparadijs’. Following that, she enrolled in de Amsterdamse Toneel en Kleinkunst Academie -- the Amsterdam Drama School -- and graduated from there in 2008. In the final year of her college, she filmed ‘Bride Flight’.
Besides acting, Anna is also a writer. In November 2011, her first novel, 'You Stay' (Je Blijft), was published by Lebowski Publishers. It was a story about a girl losing her boyfriend and coping with everyday life. Her second novel came out in 2014. Drijver won a Golden Nutcracker for her part in ‘Levenslied’.
Frank Lammers as Ferry Bouman
The 48-year-old Dutch film and television actor was born in Mierlo, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands. Lammers started his career at the Strabrecht College in Geldrop. In 1995 Lammers graduated from de Amsterdamse Toneel en Kleinkunst Academie, after which he wrote and directed the short film ‘Kort Rotterdams: Temper, Temper’.
Lammers made his acting debut in 1998 with ‘Fl 19.99’ in a short role as a homeless person. But it wasn’t until 2000 that he got more substantial roles, starting with ‘Wilde Mossels’. This was followed by films like ‘The Cave’, ‘Morning Swimmers’, ‘Grimm’, and more.
He’s also been a stage performer. In 2007, he played the role of Tom in the musical ‘Route 66’, alongside Juda Goslinga, Loes Haverkort, Alexandra Alphenaar, Rick Nicolet, and Martin van der Starre. In 2010, Lammers directed the theater performance ‘Koper’.
He made his film directorial debut in 2017 with ‘Or I Am Crazy’, which won the best feature film award at the Footcandle International Film Festival in North Carolina. In the same year, he also received the Culture Prize of the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds Noord-Brabant for "his great and special achievements and merits for the culture in Noord-Brabant". Lammers is married to the writer Eva Posthuma de Boer.
'Undercover' Season 2 arrives on Netflix on September 6, 2020.