Trivia

Speaks four languages: Dutch, English, German and French.

Name pronounced "Yeh-roon Krah-bay".

His mother, Margaretha (Reiss), was a translator and writer, and his father, Maarten Krabbé, and grandfather, Heinrich Martin Krabbé, were well-known painters.

Was the youngest student ever accepted into the Amsterdam Academy of Performing Arts.

In Willem van Oranje (1984) his son in real life, Martijn Krabbé, plays his son Philips Willem van Oranje.

Jeroen's maternal grandparents, Kaatje (Bon) and Abraham Reiss, were Dutch Jews, of Ashkenazi and Sephardi background. His maternal grandfather was killed during the Holocaust in 1943, at the Sobibór Extermination Camp. Jeroen's father's ancestry was Dutch, and also one eighth Ashkenazi Jewish.

Father of TV host Martijn Krabbé.

Brother of Tim Krabbé.

His oldest son Martijn was born on March 26, 1968, in Amsterdam (the Netherlands). Already at a young age, Martijn made his debut on television. He's been the host of numerous TV programmes, such as "Popformule," "Ministars," "Powerplay," etc. He's also had a talkshow of his own, which was called "Krabbé".

Has three sons: Martijn (b. 1968), Jasper (b. 1970) and Jakob (b. 1983).

Member of the 'Official Competition' jury at the 49th Berlin International Film Festival in 1999.

Has worked alongside the "Expendables" stars Dolph Lundgren, Harrison Ford and Jason Statham: The Punisher (1989), The Fugitive (1993) and Transporter 3 (2008).

Grandfather of Bickel Krabbé, who's the first son of his son Martijn and his ex-wife Amanda. Martijn and Amande divorced (2000) and remarried on 24 December 2005 after the birth of their second child (Michelle). On 26 February 2006 their third child Jasmijn was born and November 2007 they announced the pregnancy of their fourth child.

Half-brother of painter Mirko Krabbé.

Father of Jasper Krabbé.