Lorien Mouyal
- Art Department
- Art Director
- Production Designer
Born in Paris on December 29th, 1973 from a Dutch mother and French
father who in the 70s were members of a small theater ensemble, Lorien
moved to The Netherlands when she was two years old. During her
adolescent years she learned to speak French fluently, not only because
of her visits to her father who remained in Paris, but frequent summer
holidays that most of the time were spend on a farm near Macon, France.
After finishing her High School, she studied Autonomous Arts at the
Academy of Arts and Science in Rotterdam. But that wasn't enough...
After considerable deliberation and one year at the University of
Utrecht studying Theatre, Film & Television sciences, she eventually
applied at the prestigious Dutch Film & Televison Acadamy in Amsterdam
to study Production Design. In her final year at the Academy, she and
her close friend Joyce van Diepen even did the Art Direction for "De
Fuke", a Dutch feature about World War II. Since graduating she worked
for both television and film, earning 'her' first award, a Golden Calf,
with the entire Art Direction team for "Lepel". After their
collaboration on "The Emperor's Wife", Production Designer Wilbert van
Dorp again invited Lorien to work with him on Paul Verhoeven's
"Zwartboek" (aka Black Book), and more recently the highly promising
television mini-series "Stellenbosch". Lorien lives together with her
boyfriend in The Hague, The Netherlands and has two children, Terra and
Viggo...