- Mother of Benedict Neuenfels
- Her father was a Dutch physician named Frans Trissenaar, her mother was Austrian.
- Best known on the screen for her role in Fassbinder's film Die Ehe der Maria Braun and in his 14-part miniseries Berlin Alexanderplatz.
- Studied at the Max-Reinhardt-Seminar in Vienna from 1962 to 1964 and made her theatrical debut that year in Switzerland at the Stadttheater Bern. Active 1972-76 at the Schauspielhaus Frankfurt in title roles of Medea and Ibsen's Nora and Hedda Gabler.
- Trissenaar began her collaboration with Rainer Werner Fassbinder in the 70's, and under his direction she was in works such as The Stationmaster's Wife (Bolwieser, 1977), In a Year of 13 Moons (1978), The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979), and in the television series of Alfred Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980).
- Between 1972 and 1981, she had great success at the Schauspiel Frankfurt, especially in the roles of Nora Helmer in A Doll's House and in the title role of Hedda Gabler (both plays by Ibsen), as well as Medea by Euripides.
- She played leading roles in Robert van Ackeren's films The Other Smile (1978) and Purity of Heart (Die Reinheit des Herzens, 1980), in the Oscar-nominated film Angry Harvest (Bittere Ernte, 1985), and in Xaver Schwarzenberger's Franza (1987).
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