Hanna Grobler - Biography

Hanna Grobler was born and raised in Pretoria. From a very young age she lived out her two greatest passions in life – Charity and The Arts. Hanna matriculated at the arts school Pro Arte Alphen Park in 2000. She specialised in Fine Arts but went on to study Drama at the University of Stellenbosch with a merit bursary. Through her studies she did a lot of stage productions but decided to do her honours degree in the most difficult post modern genre Performance Art. She combined Fine Arts and Drama in her post graduate studies with subjects from both to successfully complete her honours degree. At this stage she was also an Arts and Culture teacher at Paul Roos Gymnasium in Stellenbosch.

Hanna did a lot of ground breaking work including Happenings, Installation Art to Big Performance Art Productions which weren’t something explored to this extend before in Stellenbosch. She was cast as a lead in the Site Specific play Skroothonde which won the Aardvark prize at Aardklop. After her studies Hanna moved back to Gauteng to focus more on her acting talent.

Hanna acted in many theatre productions including Witsneeutjie en die Dwergreus, a play written by Neels van Jaarsveld and directed by Herman Kitshoff, performed at KKNK 2005, Bloemfontein and Volksblad Art Festival, Aardklop 2005, Wie’tditgedoen, a play directed by Vicky Davis, performed at KKNK 2005, Le Chat Noir, a Cabaret, written and directed by Anneke Senekal for Aardklop 2005, Harmse, a Film Noir comedy, written and directed by Tertius Kapp, runner-up Nagtegaal award, Performed at KKNK 2006 and The Clanwilliam Arts Festival 2006 and Sielsiek, a play written and directed by Tertius Kapp and Willem Anker, performed at Aardklop 2006, to mention a few.

Since then Hanna acted in a number of TV and film productions including soaps, a sitcom, a game-show and drama series. In 2009 she took part as a contestant in MTN Celebrity Survivor Santa Carolina and was rated strongest female. Hanna was the only contestant to represent her own Non-Profit Organisation, The Hanna Charity and Empowerment Foundation, which was founded in March 2008.