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Saskia Holleman (20 May 1945 – 10 June 2013) was a Dutch actress, lawyer and model. She became widely known in the Netherlands when a picture in which she was naked in a meadow was used by the left-wing, pacifist political party Pacifist Socialist Party (PSP) for its electoral campaign during the 1971 Dutch general election. Holleman trained as a lawyer in the 1970s and she specialised in petty crime for law firms and later as an independent. On 20 May 1945, Holleman was born in Leeuwarden. During her childhood and attended Gemeentelijk Lyceum Eindhoven [nl], a school that she disliked. Hollemann was later educated at Lodewijk Makeblijde College [nl] and did stage performances while being a fan of ballet. She became fluent in Frisian while having her education in Dutch. Holleman had an application to study at the Academy of Theatre and Dance in rejected. Hollemann was later expelled from the Academy of Fine Arts in 1967 for reportedly insulting faculty and management. She made her on-screen debut in 1967, being cast as the Girl in Dream of Harvey Keitel in the film directed by the American actor Martin Scorsese, Who's That Knocking at My Door. Holleman also had roles in the television productions Maigret and Rudi Carrell Show. In late 1968, she was in Annie M. G. Schmidt's reuve Met man en muis and performed the role at De Lawcl theatre. Holleman was in the revue Van toen tot nu by Snip en Snap in 1969 and danced with the René Sleeswijk Revue until November 1970. She filmed a role in the television programme Klatergoud that was broadcast in 1971. Holleman decided to not do any more work in theatre and television. In 1972, she had the role of the reserve female lead of Sheila in the musical Hair. Holleman came into conflict with the producer of the musical over finances. She had a role in the 1974 erotic film compilation Wet Dreams by Lasse Braun, and went on to study law at the University of Amsterdam from 1973 to 1978. After completing her studies, Holleman specialised in petty crime for the next 31 years. She first worked at the law firm Worst and Van Haersholte, then at Peter Ingelse and final as an independent lawyer in the basement of a canal house in Amsterdam. She died from skin cancer in Amsterdam on 10 June 2013.
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