TVShe already shone on a Billboard in Times Square and is good for millions ofstreams on Spotify, but singer Cyra Gwynth (27) will also make her debut as anactress in ‘Family’ on Monday. “The first days on set were very nice andinstructive.”
Cyra is a Belgian actress, but has Dutch and Filipino roots. In the VTM soapshe will play Yoko, the long-missing adopted daughter of Vanessa (KarenDamen). Yoko is not a kitten to handle without gloves, says Gwynth. “BecauseYoko has been on her own from an early age, she stands on her own two feet.She is assertive, acts tough and stands up for herself. Due to the manysetbacks in her life, she does not bond easily, she sometimes behavesprovocatively and she can be rude. But behind that mask there is alsofragility. Anyone who makes an effort to break through her wall will seeanother Yoko.”
LOOK. For example, Cyra makes her appearance in ‘Family’ on Monday.
Gwynt has never acted as an actress before, she is especially passionate aboutmusic. As a singer-songwriter, she has already released several hip-hop andR&B songs with which she achieved millions of streams and performed on majorstages. This summer she was named ‘equal artist of the month’ by Spotify andher face adorned a billboard in New York’s Times Square. A new leap as anactress does not deter her. “The first days on set were very nice andinstructive,” says Gwynt. ‘It is a challenging but above all very cool role toplay. The story between Yoko and Vanessa will set a lot in motion in thecoming weeks. Because the question is, of course, whether mother and daughterjust accept each other after what happened in the past.”
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On Friday evening, the soap showed how the search for the adopted child ofVanessa and her partner Mathias (Peter Bulckaen) gained momentum, thanks to amidwife who still remembered how Vanessa gave her child up for adoption 26years ago. The testimony now leads Mathias to a transport company on Monday,where he comes face to face with Vanessa’s daughter. So the girl’s name isYoko.
Cyra Gwynth © VTM
“First of all: you have a daughter,” Mathias told Vanessa last Friday. “Sheended up in a very good foster home, but those people died in a car accidentwhen she was 5 years old. After that she was placed in different families, butthat was never a good match. When she was 11, she ended up in an institution.She had to stay there until she was 18.” A story that immediately grabbedVanessa by the throat.