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The wife of the procurator fiscal, and a good friend to Claire, Geillis' advanced knowledge of herbs and plants cause many to believe she is a witch. Geillis is a master manipulator, able to get her husband - among others - to bend to her will. She is also smart, sexual, and mysterious - the kind of character you know you can't trust, and yet continues to draw you in. But how long will it be before her greatest secret is uncovered?

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Dutch actress Lotte Verbeek, who was in the summer 2014 hit The Fault in our Stars, got her professional training at the Amsterdam Academy of Dramatic Arts, as well as at the Amsterdam Academy of Jazz/Musical Theatre and Dance. While in school, she was cast as the lead in the television drama series, "Moes."
In 2009 she earned a European Academy Award Best Actress nomination for her performance in Nothing Personal, a performance for which she was named one of Europe's Shooting Stars and won the Best Actress Award at the International Film Festivals of Locarno and Marrakech, and nominated for the National Dutch Film Award, Golden Calf, for Best Actress. She also won the Best Actress Award at the Monte Carlo TV Film Festival for her work in Italian mini-series "The Queens of Swing." In 2007, she won her first leading ole in a feature film, Left, in which she played five different characters.
Lotte starred opposite Jeremy Irons in Showtime's "The Borgias" and was also in Mike Figgis' psychological thriller, Suspension of Disbelief, playing dual roles. Later this year, she will next be seen in Marco Van Geffen's In Your Name and S. A. Halewood's thriller Division 19.