Roy Rebergen
‘King of Quip’
Actor - visual artist - photographer
Born: Roy Rebergen, Beverwijk, The Netherlands, January 30, 1966
Roy Rebergen in 'The Spirit of Saturn'
3D concept design for Roy Rebergen as Perseus
Digital 3D sculpture, 2013
Jeni Wright, Anita Carbajal, Roy Rebergen, Marian Xiao and Mark Dean in 'Seventeen at Forty' (catfight)
Digital painting, archival C-print, cibachrome, 24x40" / 61x102 cm, 1999
Edition 3 (+ 1 AP). 1/3: private collection, The Netherlands
'The Nose' (poster)
Digital 3D drawing, archival C-print, 65x90 cm, 2015
Graphic design: Liesbeth Nieuwenweg
Edition 3 (+ 1 AP)
Roy Rebergen in 'The Nose' (mirror)
Digital 3D sculpture/painting, glossy archival C-print on plexi and aluminum, 15x20" / 38x51 cm, 2011
Scene #24 from a series of 34 stills
Edition 3 (+ 1AP)
Marvin Dunbar, Roy Rebergen and Anita Carbajal in 'Burgaman' (poster)
Digital painting, archival C-print, cibachrome, 50x40" / 127x102 cm, 2000
Graphic design: Liesbeth Nieuwenweg
Edition 3 (+ 1 AP)
Anita Carbajal and Roy Rebergen in 'Burgaman' (kiss)
Digital painting, archival C-print, cibachrome, 24x40" / 61x102 cm, 2000
Edition 3 (+ 1 AP)
Marvin Dunbar, Roy Rebergen and Anita Carbajal in 'Burgaman' (dream)
Digital painting, archival C-print, cibachrome, 24x40" / 61x102 cm, 2000
Edition 3 (+ 1 AP). 1/3: Collection KPN Nederland, The Netherlands; 2/3: private collection, United Kingdom
Roy Rebergen in 'Red Robbie, The Act Behind the Scenes' (pink cell)
Digital painting, archival C-print, cibachrome, 32x49.25" / 81x125cm, 2003
From a series of 36 works. Public art commission: Police Department IJsselland and SKOR Public Art Foundation, The Netherlands
Roy Rebergen in 'Red Robbie, The Act Behind the Scenes' (relaxation)
Digital painting, archival C-print, cibachrome, 23.6x39.4" / 60x100 cm, 2003
From a series of 36 works. Public art commission: Police Department IJsselland and SKOR Public Art Foundation, The Netherlands
Roy Rebergen in 'Red Robbie, The Act Behind the Scenes' (fair)
Digital painting, archival C-print, cibachrome, 24.8x39.4" / 63x100 cm, 2003
From a series of 36 works. Public art commission: Police Department IJsselland and SKOR Public Art Foundation, The Netherlands
The family of Roy Rebergen migrated from the Netherlands by way of Indonesia to Canada in 1981. After graduating from high school Roy contemplated becoming a tennis player, a painter or a lawyer. He moved to California, where he attended UCLA on a sports scholarship and also took acting classes. He accepted a role as a dislocated youth in the daytime soap As The World Turns, a faux pas he would like to forget. He dropped out of college in 1986 and started traveling around the world, ending up in Amsterdam, where he enrolled as an art student in the Rijksacademie. In 1991 Roy returned to Los Angeles, where he landed a role as a righteous attorney in the TV series LA Law, which he managed to carry off for one season. Roy Rebergen's various appearances in TV dramas and series brought him enough notice to earn him his first film contract, the weak adventure comedy, Billy Hell (1992). In spite of his disastrous film debut, Roy Rebergen's career picked up rapidly with catching roles in No Mountain High Enough (1994); The Sigma Chi Darling (1993); and Hell's Anteroom (1994). But his blast to fame and his claim to being a true box-office magnet came in the form of that bitingly funny parody on the 'hunh' and/or 'dah' generation, NUPPIE (1995).
Aside from his phenomenal yet peculiarly paradoxical acting style of itchy light irony and dark feline menace, Roy is a unique sculptor, painter and photographer. He has made many masterfully lighted set photographs from the most unusual angles and some avant-garde shorts and animations. As he is very photogenic, he, in turn, has been the object of many artists and photographers. Roy is a no nonsense guy, a goofy prankster and a fitness fanatic, as he is an amazingly expert tennis player, golfer, swimmer, short-track runner, polevaulter, racing and cross-country biker, speed skater, mountaineer, hang glider, sky diver, surfer, skier and snowboarder. As he has had many accidents, in his contracts there is a standard clause forbidding Roy to engage in any risky exercise just before and during a shoot.
With his boyishly handsome looks, of course, Roy is a great Casanova as evident from his long list of exquisitely talented girlfriends, amongst others, independent filmmaker, Liz Dean, hot-babe actress, Anita Carbajal, and the dynamic trumpeter-composer, Naomi Wright-Koundé.
Selected Filmography
1989: Billy Hell
1991: Jacob's Share
1991: American Pride
1993: The Merry Wimp From LA
1993: The Sigma Chi Darling
1994: No Mountain High Enough
1994: Hell's Anteroom
1996: The Night And Day Of Mr. Herrick
1996: Seas of Bounty
1997: Path Of Fear
1997: Class Actors
1998: Blood Wedding
1998: I Never Loved You
1999: Bel Heir
1999: Seventeen At Forty
2000: Burgaman
2001: The Pulitzer Boy
2002: The Players Resort
2003: Red Robbie, The Act behind the Scenes
2003: Boss of Shadows
2005: The Moneymongers
2010: The World of Ism
2011: The Nose