Ronald Top is a theatre, TV, and film-actor as well as presenter, voice-over artist and writer. Hollywood writer/producer Vivian Leigh wrote about his work: “Ronald’s performances have a depth and believability that are only seen within the work of the very best actors His sensitivity to the needs of production and nobility allows greater performances from everyone with whom he appears.”
Career
After finishing his four-year study at the Drama Academy in Maastricht, Ronald worked as a stage-actor in Antwerp, Belgium, at the National Theatre in the Hague and several other Dutch theatre groups. A leading Dutch critic wrote: “Ronald’s performance is so life-like, it’s frightening.” On television he performs in drama as well as comedy series and both short and feature length films. Ronald has always been passionate about acting and presenting. “Can History be fun to watch? Absolutely! Just watch Ronald Top presenting Industrial Revelations Europe,” a Dutch critic wrote about Ronald’s history/engineering programmes for Discovery Channel. The hit series “Industrial Revelations” and “Inventing History” show Ronald driving steam trains, flying hot air balloons, riding horses, lighting dynamite and climbing into the dark depths of a Polish flint mine. On “Legend Detectives” he marshalled a team of experts and travelled through Europe to the birthplaces of famous legends. “His unique blend of humour, intelligence and non-stop enthusiasm” is viewed by millions of people in more than 140 countries in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and the US. According to Bafta winning director Richard Nash "Ronald is the most engaging, entertaining and low maintenance presenter I’ve come across in over fifteen years of directing documentaries,” Ronald played a leading role in the award winning feature film “The Flowing”. This year he will star in the film “Dad’s last journey” from Golden Bear winning director Hanro Smitsman and in the Dutch drama series “A’dam and Eve”. Ronald participated in the award winning Dutch/German production of “A letter for the king” and in the award winning film “The Roymann Closure”. He appeared in the music video clip “Utopia” from the Dutch band Within Temptation and on the internet in the British comedy series “Semitasking”. Ronald has written and presented several corporate films. “Space Transportation: an ATV perspective” for the European Space Agency won him the Best Documentary Award at the 2009 Scientific Filmfestival in Milan, Italy. The extremely successful and award winning ad-campaign for Grolsch beer – ‘Schtop!’ – made him a household name in the UK. This year Ronald will work with New Earth Films in the Netherlands on the production of documentaries for the National Geographic Channel. He’ll work as an actor on several productions in his home country the Netherlands as well as the UK and Germany. Ronald is developing his first script for a feature film.
Skills
Horse riding, scuba diving and sailing are among his favorite sports. He’s learning to play the cello. His native language is Dutch. Ronald is fluent in English and German.
