Frederik Percy de Groot Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Frederik Percy de Groot (born 23 May 1946 in Bilthoven) is a Dutch actor. In the Netherlands he appeared in the detective series Bureau Kruislaan and its spin-off Unit 13.He is best known, however, in Canada where he was the television spokesman for ING Direct for many years. The marketing campaign was developed by GWP Brand Engineering. They picked an actor with a foreign accent so that customers would not be surprised to learn the bank was also foreign. De Groot also speaks French, and is unusual among Canadian spokespeople for also appearing in the company's French Canadian language spots.He has been married since 1997 to Marja Bakker. He has three children: Elwin and Oliver de Groot and Genevieve Gaunt. Genevieve Gaunt is also an actor, and portrayed Pansy Parkinson in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.Frederik and his wife Marja own theatre company Living Productions – Hoorn (www.livingproductions.nl)
Frederik played a small role, a German soldier in A Bridge too Far, sitting in a jeep behind Laurence Olivier.
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Is the "ING Direct Guy" on TV. Frederik stars in a number of different Canadian commercials for "ING Direct Banking" that were made infamous by his personality.