Sylvia Hoeks was born in Maarheeze, a southern town of the Netherlands. At age 14, she was scouted by Elite Models and traveled to many European countries to model. After doing this, she finished high school and attended the Maastricht Theatre Academy.

After graduation, she made her national breakthrough with the Jos Stelling film, Duska (2007), for which she won a Golden Calf (the Dutch equivalent of the Oscars) at the annual Dutch Film Festival. Sylvia quickly became in-demand for both stage and screen directors and stars in prestigious Dutch TV series, like Overspel (2011) (VARA), Bloedverwanten (2010) (AVRO) and several theatre plays.

Within two years after graduating, Sylvia had the opportunity to play her first leading role as "Julia" in the feature film, The Storm (2009) (Ben Sombogaart, 2009), which became a major box office hit. The film was a national success and reached the Stony Brook Film Festival (NY, USA) and Festroia International Film Festival (Setubal, Portugal), where she received the award for "best actress".

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Trivia

2011: Named as one of European films' Shooting Stars by European Film Promotion.
2010, Nomination Golden Calf, Dutch Film Festival 2010, Tirza.
2010, Best Actress at Festroia International Film Festival (Setubal, Portugal).
In 2011, she starred in a 12-minute pilot of a film titled "Theresa Immaculata", directed by Ramón Gieling, about a incestuous relationship between brother and sister. Hoeks played the sister, Theresa, and Matthias Schoenaerts (her co-star in The Gang of Oss (2011)) played her brother, Thomas. The film was never made but a 7-minute video of the pilot can be found on Youtube.

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