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Kizzy Yuanda Constance Getrouw (born 14 March 1979) is a Dutch actress, singer-songwriter and television host. She performs under her first name and artist name Kizzy . She became a household name in the Netherlands Antilles with a hit songs and TV shows. In the United States she is best known for hosting TV shows on both The Gossip Swapp on XY TV and CN8.
Kizzy is the name given to the 1976 BBC adaptation of Rumer Godden's novel The Diddakoi. It starred Vanessa Furst as Kizzy.
It is the story of an orphan traveller or Romani girl called Kizzy, who faces persecution, grief and loss in a hostile, close-knit village community. This is a moving tale of human fallibility and sorrow, but also of strength, courage and redemption.
It was dramatised as a television serial, Kizzy (1976), which was produced by Dorothea Brooking for the BBC, with Vanessa Furst as Kizzy. The novel has been republished under the title Gypsy Girl, and has been adapted as a BBC radio drama of the same name. This adaptation features Nisa Cole.[2]
Kizzy may refer to:
- Kizzy (entertainer) (born Kizzy Yuanda Constance Getrouw), a Dutch actress, singer-songwriter and television host
- Kizzy Crawford or "Kizzy", a Barbadian-Welsh singer
- Kizzy Waller (later Kizzy Lea), a character in the TV miniseries Roots
- Kizzy "Kiz" Shoemaker, a character from Afterworld (web series)
- Kizzy, a character from Snobs (TV series)
- Kizzy, a character from the play Turn Left at Gilgamesh
- Kizzy (TV series), a 1976 BBC adaptation of Rumer Godden's novel The Diddakoi
- Kizzy: Mum at 14, a BBC Three documentary about an underage mother, Kizzy Kay Neal