Toos: The Van der Valk Kidnapping

Netflix series

Amsterdam, October 13, 2026

Toos van der Valk has everything: wealth, prestige, a close-knit family, and the unconditional love of her husband Gerrit. Together, they run the largest hotel empire in the Netherlands. On November 26, 1982, disaster strikes: Toos becomes the victim of one of the most notorious kidnappings in Dutch history. Today, Netflix reveals the first footage of 'Toos: The Van der Valk Kidnapping,' the new Dutch drama series inspired by this case. The series will be released worldwide on Netflix on November 26, 2026, exactly 44 years after Toos was kidnapped.

Lies Visschedijk in the role of Toos van der Valk at the time of her kidnapping

Lies Visschedijk and Frank Lammers in the lead roles

Cast

Lies Visschedijk and Frank Lammers play the leading roles of Toos and Gerrit van der Valk. The cast also includes Gijs Blom as Joep van den Nieuwenhuijzen, Joy Verberk as Marijke van der Valk, Richelle Plantinga as Carlita van der Valk, Jim Deddes as Harry Heinrichs, and Juda Goslinga as detective Cor Mulder.

Lies Visschedijk: “What touches me about Toos is her enormous resilience and dignity under the most frightening circumstances. That is why it felt like a great responsibility to portray her story with much respect.”

Family Toos van der Valk: “So many years later, the kidnapping remains a charged chapter in our lives. It is special that there is now renewed attention and that our story is brought to life so compellingly by such a strong cast.”

Lies Visschedijk and Frank Lammers in their roles as Toos and Gerrit van der Valk

About Toos: The Van der Valk Kidnapping

The series

Toos becomes the victim of one of the most notorious kidnappings in Dutch history. What follows is a terrifying twenty-day period during which the Van der Valk family is in total despair. While Gerrit and the children feverishly search for their wife, mother, and grandmother, police officer Cor Mulder moves into Hotel Nuland, where the family stays during the crisis. Undercover as ‘cousin Cor,’ he tries to track down the kidnappers while simultaneously trying to keep the family together, who, under immense pressure, is slowly threatening to succumb. Meanwhile, Toos must do everything to survive. The kidnapping of Toos grips the entire country. The press follows every detail closely, the government fears setting a precedent if the family pays the ransom, and the demands of the kidnappers become more impossible by the day. A nerve-racking twenty-day race follows to save Toos.

Source: Netflix

Frank Lammers in the role of Gerrit van der Valk

Who is Toos van der Valk?

The leading lady of the family

Toos has been inextricably linked to the history of the Van der Valk family since her engagement to Gerrit van der Valk. Together with her husband, she is part of the entrepreneurial family that laid the foundation for the growth of Van der Valk Hotels & Restaurants. Although her name became well-known to many Dutch people due to the kidnapping in 1982, her story goes beyond this event. Toos van der Valk plays an important role within the family and the development of one of the best-known family businesses in the Netherlands.