Jan M. van der Molen VI was born in Groningen, Groningen, Kingdom of the Netherlands, to Annemarie van der Molen (née De Boer) and Jan van der Molen V, named after his great-grandfather, Jan van der Molen IV, as Jan-Maarten van der Molen. He is an actor, known for Rabarber (2014) and Verborgen verhalen (2009).