Merete Van Kamp

Merete Van Kamp is a Danish born model turned actress and singer.

Van Kamp's first film role was in the 1983 espionage thriller The Osterman Weekend, directed by Sam Peckinpah playing opposite John Hurt. She was then chosen from 700 hopefuls to play the lead roles of Princess Daisy Valenski and Dani Valenski in the NBC blockbuster TV miniseries Princess Daisy, written by Judith Krantz. In 1985-86 she appeared in the TV series Dallas, playing Grace.

She guest-starred in several episodes of Hotel and Remington Steele and has appeared in many feature films, including You Can't Hurry Love with Bridget Fonda, and Mission Kill, with Robert Ginty and Olivia d'Abo, directed by David Winters. She was the lead in Lethal Woman (with Shannon Tweed), The Most Dangerous Woman Alive, Poison Ivy: The New Seduction (the third of the four-film series), and Westbrick Murders with Eric Roberts.

From 1990 to 1994, Van Kamp recorded an album for EMI-France entitled Pleasure and Pain, produced by Frank Langolff, who composed seven of the nine tracks (the other two were Rick F. James compositions). Van Kamp appeared on the series De Syv Drab in 2012 and the 2013 Shaun Rana film Murders of Westbrick.

Van Kamp is the founder of her own acting studio in Paris and is currently writing a drama thriller series of ten episodes.