Yootha Wong-Loi-Sing

Yootha Wong-Loi-Sing is an incredible Dutch actress and singer, whose star is rapidly shining brighter and brighter across the world. She played the lead role in the independent film Really Love (2020) alongside Kofi Siriboe for Charles King’s MACRO and currently globally on Netflix. The film was selected for South by Southwest Film Festival in the Narrative Feature Competition, where Yootha and Kofi received Special Jury Recognition for Acting. Yootha has landed a role in the third season of Apple TV+’s series Foundation and she was a series regular on Love Is_ (2018) for Oprah Winfrey’s OWN network created by Mara Brock Akil and starred in the Black Lightening (2021) pilot for the CW Network.

Yootha burst onto the scene with her captivating portrayal of Mini-Mini in the feature film Hoe Duur was de Suiker (2013), which earned her a prestigious Dutch Academy Award nomination (Golden Calf) for Best Actress. Set in 18th century colonial Surinam, her character was a free-minded slave determined to break the shackles of her oppression. She continued her career with roles in De Paradise Suite (2015) which won a Dutch Academy Award for Best Film and was that year’s Dutch submission for the Academy Awards, and the first Dutch Netflix Original Film Forever Rich (2021) by Shady El-Hamus and Videoland’s Dormis (2022).

She made a name for herself on the small screen as well, taking on starring roles in a variety of shows, such as the first season of the Nickelodeon series De Ludwigs (2016), the US remake Hunter Street (2017-2018), Videoland’s Het A Woord (2020) and Amazon’s Modern Love (2022). Yootha took on the lead role of Yola in the eagerly awaited TV-series Santos. This gripping series delves deep into the passionate, underground love story set in the gritty underworld of Rotterdam.