Jeni Bezuidenhout is a HOH/deaf actor, screenwriter and creative born in Pretoria,
South Africa, who now resides in Melbourne, Australia.
Since graduating from Bachelors in Performing Arts from Ballarat Arts Academy (Federation
University) in 2012, Jeni has worked extensively as an actor in theatre, film and online content.
She is currently appearing on Amazon Prime in feature film In Corpore and also appeared in
award-winning cult horror feature Cat Sick Blues.
Jeni has appeared in Screen Australia funded web series 2121 and in numerous internationally
screened and awarded short films.
On stage she has performed at many venues and festivals, for example appearing as the lead in the sell-out Adelaide Fringe season of "Altar Girl" by Hannah Samuel ("The Heights"), Jeni's performance was described as “incredibly magnetic” (yaniism) and that “at times chills you to the bone, and at other times nearly makes you laugh out loud” (Emma Connell-Doherty, Great Scott).
Jeni is also an accomplished screenwriter, playwright and director. She was accepted into the Originate development and production program, a joint initiative by Film Victoria, SBS and Arenamedia. It’s not your fault that you’re my weakness is Jeni’s first collaboration with BYTE.