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Lika Berning (born 1980). Actress on screen and stage.

She has also worked as Lika van den Bergh.

Biography

Lika is the daughter of Regardt van den Bergh and Jana Cilliers. She is married to Clyde Berning.

She began her drama studies at the University of Stellenbosch, but then moved to the University of Cape Town, to follow a course in documentary film making.

Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance

Stage work

On stage she starred in As You Like It (Maynardville January 2009.

Film and TV work

Claustrophobia (2002), Primeval (2007), Feast of the Uninvited (2008), The Bang Bang Club (2010), Vrou soek boer (2014), Liefling (2010), Die Wonderwerker (2012), French Toast (2015), Uitvlucht (2015), Trouvoete (2015), Die Byl (TV Series, 2016-), Kern (TV Series, 2018-).

She was also an associate producer on Uitvlucht (2015).

Sources

Beeld, 20 November 2010.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2490845/

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Film and food are Lika Berning's great loves, so a combination of the two makes for a passionate production. The star of 'French Toast', an Afrikaans/English film sprinkled with French, hopes it will appeal to a wide audience - one that appreciates food, romance and comedy, along with subtitles.

"The dialogue is mostly in English and accessible to more people. But it's also a simple, authentic story with a compulsory French love affair in it. The food is shot so beautifully, deliciously, that I think it will be appealing to most people," the Cape-based Berning said on a visit to Joburg for the premiere.

"Authentic" might be a stretch, but it is a sweet story. Some scenes were shot in the pretty light of Paris and the rest in Stellenbosch and Hartbeespoort, where production company Hartiwood Films is based.

Berning, 35, who starred in the local blockbuster Liefling and appeared in The Bang Bang Club, plays virginal boeremeisie Lise le Roux, a photographer and the daughter of a wealthy winemaker (Deon Lotz). After her long-dead mother's journal reveals a lost sibling, born out of wedlock and given up for adoption in Paris, she leaves the farm to find the missing family member.

In Paris, Le Roux meets a French chef, Jean-Pierre Baptiste (Thierry Ballarin), and agrees to photograph his new cookbook in exchange for his help in tracking her sibling.

Tall and slender, Berning towers above her French counterpart and love interest, a cute character who charms her and the viewer.

The movie has its fair share of cheese. Touristy Parisian clichés like berets, brioche and bicycles.

"It is a light story, but there is depth," said Berning. "I love that she is searching for something important. A control freak and quite a sheltered girl, she is unfulfilled in her own life and goes looking for a part of herself, too."

Berning comes from an illust

Lika Berning (gebore 9 April1980; née van den Bergh) is 'n Suid-Afrikaanseaktrise. Berning het 'n honneursgraad in Dokumentêre Filmkuns aan die Universiteit van Kaapstad verwerf. Sy werk sedert haar graduasie in 2003 as 'n aktrise. Sy het al in verskeie TV-sepies verskyn, onder andere in Binnelanders en KykNET se Fees van die ongenooides. Van die rolprente waarin sy gespeel het sluit in: Liefling, Die Wonderwerker en Vrou Soek Boer.

Sy is die dogter van die aktrise Jana Cilliers en regisseur Regardt van den Bergh.

Filmografie

• French Toast, 2015 as Lise le Roux
• Vrou Soek Boer, 2014 as Mareike
• Die Wonderwerker, 2012 as Annie
• Liefling, 2010 as Liefling Marais
• The Bang Bang Club, 2010 as Vivian
• Fees van die ongenooides (TV-reeks), 2008 as Magrieta van Wyk
• Primeval, 2007 as Rachel
• Claustrophobia (kort), 2002 as baasspelerige vrou