German Actresses
by imdblisters | created - 19 Feb 2021 | updated - 20 Feb 2021 | PublicList of my favorite German Actresses
1. Marlene Dietrich
Soundtrack | Witness for the Prosecution
Her father was a police lieutenant and imbued in her a military attitude to life. Marlene was known in school for her "bedroom eyes" and her first affairs were at this stage in her life - a professor at the school was terminated. She entered the cabaret scene in 1920s Germany, first as a spectator ...
2. Diane Kruger
Actress | Inglourious Basterds
Diane Kruger was born Diane Heidkrüger in Algermissen, near Hildesheim, Germany, to Maria-Theresa, a bank employee, and Hans-Heinrich Heidkrüger, a computer specialist. She studied ballet with the Royal Ballet in London before an injury ended her career. She returned to Germany and became a top ...
3. Nastassja Kinski
Actress | Tess
Nastassja Kinski was born Nastassja Aglaia Nakszynski on January 24, 1961 in Berlin, Germany, the daughter of German actor Klaus Kinski. In 1976, she met director Roman Polanski, who urged her to study method acting with Lee Strasberg in the United States. Kinski starred in the Italian romantic ...
4. Maja Schöne
Actress | Der Brand
Maja Schöne was born in 1976 in Stuttgart, Germany. She is an actress, known for The Fire (2011), Dark (2017) and Cowgirl (2004).
5. Franka Potente
Actress | Lola rennt
Franka Potente was born on 22 July 1974 in the German city of Münster, to Hildegard, a medical assistant, and Dieter Potente, a teacher, and raised in the nearby town of Dülmen. After her graduation in 1994, she went to the Otto-Falckenberg-Schule, a drama school in Munich, but soon broke off to ...
6. Ina Paule Klink
Actress | Wilsberg
Ina Paule Klink was born on December 23, 1979 in Zossen, Brandenburg, Germany. She is an actress, known for Wilsberg (1995), Großstadtträume (2000) and Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten (1992).
7. Chulpan Khamatova
Actress | Good Bye Lenin!
Chulpan Khamatova is an internationally acclaimed film and stage actress and well-known philanthropist who left Moscow following the Russian invasion of Ukraine and took permanent residency in Latvia.
She was born Chulpan Nailyevna Khamatova on October 1, 1975, in Kazan, Tatarstan Republic, Russia. ...
8. Maria Simon
Actress | Good Bye Lenin!
Maria Simon was born on February 6, 1976 in Leipzig, German Democratic Republic [nox Saxony, Germany]. She is an actress and producer, known for Good Bye Lenin! (2003), Portrait of a Married Couple (2002) and Kleine Schwester (2004). She was previously married to Bernd Michael Lade.
9. Nina Hoss
Actress | Phoenix
Nina Hoss was born on July 7, 1975 in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. She is an actress, known for Phoenix (2014), Tár (2022) and A Most Wanted Man (2014). She has been married to Alex Silva since 2015.
10. Heike Makatsch
Actress | Love Actually
Born on 13 August 1971 in Düsseldorf, Germany, as the daughter of former German national ice hockey keeper Rainer Makatsch. After studying politics and sociology at the University of Düsseldorf for two years and an apprenticeship as dressmaker, she was hired by newborn TV music channel VIVA in 1993...
11. Jessica Schwarz
Actress | Romy
Jessica Schwarz was born on May 5, 1977 in Erbach im Odenwald, Hesse, Germany. She is an actress, known for Romy (2009), Nichts bereuen (2001) and Buddenbrooks (2008).
12. Anja Kling
Actress | (T)Raumschiff Surprise - Periode 1
Anja Kling was born on March 22, 1970 in Potsdam, German Democratic Republic. She is an actress and writer, known for (T)Raumschiff Surprise - Periode 1 (2004), The Final Days (2008) and Tödliche Wahl (1995).
13. Katharina Schüttler
Actress | Freier Fall
Katharina Schüttler started acting for film and television when she was 11 years old. Her breakthrough in Germany was the International Emmy Award winning Mini-Series "Generation War" ("Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter") in which she portrayed singer Greta del Torres. She appeared in many films for ...
14. Henriette Confurius
Actress | Die Wölfe
Henriette Confurius was born on February 5, 1991 in Berlin, Germany. She is an actress, known for Die Wölfe (2009), Mein erstes Wunder (2002) and Police Call 110 (1971).
15. Paula Beer
Actress | Undine
Paula Beer was born on February 23, 1995 in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. She is an actress, known for Undine (2020), Frantz (2016) and The Dark Valley (2014).
16. Antje Traue
Actress | Man of Steel
With a strong body of work in her native Germany, Antje broke out into the international marketplace in Zack Snyder's Superman retelling, "Man of Steel" as the villainess, "Faora". Other credits include Renny Harlin's "5 Days of August", Warner Brothers' "The Seventh Son", Simon Curtis's "The Woman...
17. Hannah Herzsprung
Actress | The Reader
Hannah Herzsprung was born on September 7, 1981 in Hamburg, West Germany. She is an actress, known for The Reader (2008), Who Am I (2014) and Four Minutes (2006).
18. Alicia von Rittberg
Actress | Fury
Alicia von Rittberg, born on December 10, 1993 in Munich, made her debut in front of the camera at the age of six in the popular TV-show "Dingsda," in which small children had to explain different everyday concepts. But her real acting career began only a few years later: in 2006 she appeared in a ...
19. Anna Loos
Actress | Weissensee
Anna Loos was born on November 18, 1970 in Brandenburg an der Havel, German Democratic Republic. She is an actress, known for The Weissensee Saga (2010), Anatomy (2000) and Die Lehrerin (2011). She has been married to Jan Josef Liefers since August 5, 2004. They have two children.
20. Maria Furtwängler
Actress | Tatort
Furtwängler is the great-niece and step-granddaughter of the conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler. She grew up in middle-class circumstances with her parents. The father Bernhard Furtwängler was an architect, the mother Kathrin Ackermann was an actress. At the age of eight, she appeared in front of the ...
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