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Rutger was once in a Dutch production of Hair.
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Rutger wrote a book called All Those Moments: Stories of Heroes, Villains, Replicants and Blade Runners in 2007 with Patrick Quinlan.
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Rutger is the grandfather of Leandro Maeder.
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Rutger is the son of Arend Hauer.
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Rutger appeared in two vampire movies with Donald Sutherland. They are Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Salem's Lot.
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Rutger is the father of Aysha Hauer.
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Rutger was once married to Heidi Merz.
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It is rumored that Anne Rice wrote the part of Lestat in Interview With A Vampire specifically for Rutger.
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Rutger has considered writing a novel on the internet.
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Rutger made a comeback of sorts in the last few years, playing villains in movies such as Sin City and Batman Begins.
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Rutger was awarded a Golden Globe for Escape From Sobibor.
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Rutger won the Best Actor award at the 1988 Seattle International Film Festival for his appearance in the film The Legend of the Holy Drinker.
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Rutger was nominated for a Golden Globe for HBO Picture's Fatherland.
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Rutger is considered Holland's greatest actor.
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During Rutger's first television appearance when he was 11, he did not speak his lines during the live transmission, forcing another actor to take over his lines.
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Rutger first appeared on television in 1954, when he was 11.
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Rutger was hired for the movie Blade Runner after Ridley Scott viewed some of his performances in his earlier movies.
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Rutger showed up for his meeting with Ridley Scott, the director of Blade Runner, with his hair bleached white, wearing flamboyant sunglasses, bright pink satin pants and a white sweater on which was a fox.
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Rutger was somewhat notorious in his early years for doing full-frontal nude scenes.
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People Magazine said of Rutger, "Rutger's acting is worthy of attention because of his vividly strange characters."
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Rutger's role in Blade Runner was the first major success he had in the United States.
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Rutger says the first thing he learned in the U.S. was to believe in his own intuition.
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Rutger claims he was unable to continue working on the freighter ship because he lost interest in sailing. In reality, it was due to his color blindness.
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Rutger had to lie about his age to be able to work on a freighter ship when he was 14.
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Rutger had a long working relationship with Turkish Delight director Paul Verhoeven.
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Rutger's drill sergeant believed that he would make a fine military officer.
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Rutger only lasted 5 months in the Dutch military.
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Rutger was 29 when he first appeared in a movie.
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Rutger's first movie, Turkish Delight, set box office records in Holland, bringing in an estimated 3,300,000 people.
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Rutger honed his acting skills by going to North Holland and performing for farmers.
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Rutger's first film, Turkish Delight, was voted "Film of the Century" in Holland.
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Rutger has appeared in over 80 movies.
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Rutger was awarded the prestigious "Actor of the Century" in Holland in 1999.
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In the late 1980s to the early 1990s, Rutger mostly acted in straight to video and cable tv movies.
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When Rutger was enrolled in drama school, he spent most of his time in Amsterdam coffee houses and wrote poetry, instead of studying.
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Rutger has three sisters.
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Rutger was mostly raised by a nanny while growing up, as his parents were touring actors.
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Rutger has blonde hair and blue eyes.
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Rutger's wife Ineke is a painter and sculptor.
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Rutger fathered one daughter from each of his marriages.
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Rutger has been married twice, once in the sixties, and once in 1985.
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Rutger is six foot, two inches tall.
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Rutger was expelled from drama school because of lack of attendance.
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Rutger's parents are actors, and they operated an acting school in Amsterdam.
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The Dutch Mail Service issued a stamp in 1995 with Rutger on it, taken from a scene in Turkish Delight.
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Rutger speaks fluent German.
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Rutger was the original choice for the lead in the film RoboCop.
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Rutger got out of the Dutch Navy by convincing his superiors he was mentally unfit to serve. He was then sent to an institution.
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Rutger is color-blind.
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Rutger became known for several humorous appearances in Guinness commercials in the early 1990's.
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Rutger has been called the "Dutch Paul Newman."
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Rutger appeared in Kylie Minogue's music video for "On a Night Like This."
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Rutger has one daughter from his first marriage.
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Rutger married his second wife, Ineke, in 1985.
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Rutger set up an AIDS research foundation called the Rutger Hauer Starfish Foundation.
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Rutger is an enviromentalist, and he fought for the release of Greenpeace co-founder Paul Watson, who sunk an illegal whaling vessel.