Niels van der Laan
- Actor
- Writer
- Music Department
Niels van der Laan is a Dutch actor, comedian and writer. He was born in Beverwijk, Netherlands. He attended the kleinkunstacademie in Amsterdam, where he formed a comedy duo with Jeroen Woe. In 2011 he became known to a wider public, when he started presenting the successful satirical tv show 'De Kwis', which ran until 2018. In 2019 he started presenting a similar tv show called 'Even Tot Hier', which won multiple awards. As an actor, he's mainly known as 'Hoofdpiet' from the program 'Het Sinterklaasjournaal', a role he's been playing since 2018.