Merete Van Kamp (born 1961) is a Danish model, actress and singer.
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Early life
Merete Van Kamp was born in Kolding, Denmark in 1961. She began modeling with Parker Zed modelling agency in Hamburg, Germany followed by L'Agence in Paris, France and Elite in Los Angeles California USA internationally. Then Merete Van Kamp was recruited by the Talent agent John LaRocca.
Career
Merete Van Kamp's first film role was in the 1983 espionage thriller The Osterman Weekend, directed by Sam Peckinpah playing opposite John Hurt.
She was then chosen out of 700 actresses to play the lead roles of Princess Daisy Valenski and Dani Valenski in the NBC television miniseries Princess Daisy, written by Judith Krantz. From 1985 to 1986, she had a regular role as Grace Van Owen on the television series Dallas. From 1987 to 1997, Merete Van Kamp was training vocals and dance to record an album for EMI-France entitled Pleasure and Pain, produced by Frank Langolff, who composed seven of the nine tracks (the other two were Rick F. James compositions).
She guest-starred in several episodes of Hotel and Remington Steele and has appeared in feature films, including You Can't Hurry Love with Bridget Fonda, and Mission Kill, with Robert Ginty and Olivia d'Abo, directed by David Winters. She was the lead in Lethal Woman (with Shannon Tweed), Poison Ivy: The New Seduction (the third of the four-film series), and Westbrick Murders with Eric Roberts. Van Kamp appeared on the series De 7 Drab in 2010.
In 2017, Merete Van Kamp founded Le Van Kamp Studio in Paris, and began writing a drama thriller series and making her ACTORS do skids at Teatre ALLIORS in Paris, France that she would be writing .