Rebecca Hanser

Rebecca Hanser is a stage and screen actress, born and raised in the city Utrecht, The Netherlands. Her father is of Indonesian, Austrian, Dutch, and French descent and her mother of Indonesian, Polish, Dutch and German ancestry. Both were born in Semarang, Indonesia but moved to Europe at an early age. They are part of the so-called Indo-European community, a heritage from the colonization of Indonesia, formerly known as the Dutch East Indies. At an early age, she already had a love for movies and says she learned English by "simply watching a lot of movies". The acting bug only kicked in at a much later age as she developed a passion for writing. She went off to pursue an impressive academic career before giving in to acting and studied International Business Management at The Hague University (BSc) and Anthropology and Journalism (MA) at the renowned Leiden University. Surviving college through jobs in modeling and hospitality, she says that studying gave her the opportunity to tra