Manouk's career as an actress started in 1980 after the Theater school Herman Teirlinck in Antwerp, Belgium. She also has been trained and following Masterclasses by Warren Robertson, Jack Waltzer, Delia Salvia and Candice Darra in Amsterdam and NY. Between 1997 and 2001 she studied at the Actor Centre in London. In 2007 she attended the full year acting training Trappan in Goteborg, Sweden. She lived and worked in Holland, the UK and Sweden where she played the lead role in more than 50 Films and TV series, like the BBC series 'A Touch of Frost' and 'Close Relations. Manouk appeared as the female lead next to Tom Hulce and Jeroen Krabbe in 'The Shadowman', directed by the Polish director Piotr Andrejev. Also she was seen as Celine, 'The Dragon Catcher' in 'Kingdom'. Next to her TV and Film parts she performed on stage. She played till example Amanda in Jean Anouilh's Leocadia. In Sweden she was seen on stage in Chekov's 'The Three Sisters' and Strindberg's 'The Stronger'. Manouk worked in 2012 with the German director Kai Zastrow in the film 'The Lucky One Lost.' In 2013 she appeared again on stage and was touring in the Netherlands with the play 'Eindeloos'. In 2014 she took on the lead role of Rebecca Johansson in the Dutch Net5 series 'Fashion Planet'. 2015 she traveled to Japan to shoot the documentary 'In the Footsteps of Nichiren', which was seen on the Dutch Television. Recently she played supporting parts in 'West of Liberty', and Emma in the action film 'Kill Mode', which will be released in 2019. Manouk is a professional writer. She has been attending Robert McKee script writing workshops in London, Scriptplus in Amsterdam, Creative Writing LOI and followed a course script writing at Endemol Productions. She wrote travel articles for several Dutch magazines, columns about London for the newspaper 'Het Algemeen Dagblad' and columns for the glossy women's magazine 'Nouveau'. Her first novel, 'Zingend Riet', was published in 1997. In 2011 she interviewed musicians and crew members of The André Rieu Orchestra. The articles she consequently wrote were published in 'The Glossy André Rieu Magazine'. Her book 'De Rode Draagdoek' will be published at Uitgeverij Aspekt in autumn 2019. Manouk is also an adequate voice over artist. She speaks fluent Dutch, English and Swedish, and workable German and French.