Barbara Sukowa

Barbara Sukowa born 2 February 1950 is a German theatre and film actress. She is known for her work with directors Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Margarethe von Trotta. She won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for the film Rosa Luxemburg (1986). Her other film appearances include Lola (1981), Europa (1990), M. Butterfly (1993), and Hannah Arendt (2012). She starred as Katarina Jones in the television series 12 Monkeys (2015–18). Contents   1Career 2Personal

Marthe Keller

Marthe Keller (born 28 January 1945) is a Swiss actress and opera director. She is perhaps best known for her role in the film Marathon Man (1976), which earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination. Contents   1Career 1.1Early years 1.2Film work 1.3Theater work 1.4Opera work 2Personal life 3Theatre 4Filmography 5References 6External links Career Early years Keller studied ballet as

Nastassja Kinski

Nastassja Aglaia Kinski (née Nakszynski;  born 24 January 1961 is a German actress and former model who has appeared in more than 60 films in Europe and the United States. Her worldwide breakthrough was with Stay as You Are (1978). She then came to global prominence with her Golden Globe Award-winning performance as the title character in the Roman Polanski-directed film Tess (1979). Other

Hanna Schygulla

Hanna Schygulla (born 25 December 1943 is a German actress and chanson singer. Associated with the theater and film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, for whom she first worked in 1965, she was active in the New German Cinema. She won the 1979 Berlin Silver Bear for Best Actress for Fassbinder’s The Marriage of Maria Braun, and the 1983 Cannes Film Festival Award for Best

Sylvia Kristel

Sylvia Maria Kristel 28 September 1952 – 17 October 2012 was a Dutch model and actress who appeared in over 50 films. She is best remembered as the eponymous character in five of the seven Emmanuelle films. Contents   1Early life 2Career 3Personal life 4Illness and death 5Filmography 5.1Film 5.2Television 6References 7External links Early life Kristel was

Senta Berger

Senta Berger born 13 May 1941 is an Austrian film, stage and television actress, producer and author living in Germany. She received many award nominations for her acting in theatre, film and television; her awards include three Bambi Awards, two Romys, an Adolf Grimme Award, both a Deutscher and a Bayerischer Fernsehpreis, and a Goldene Kamera. Contents   1Early life 2Career 3Memoirs 4Personal life

Margit Carstensen

Margit Carstensen born 29 February 1940 is a German theatre and film actress, best known outside Germany for roles in the works of film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Contents   1Theater career 2Film and television 3Awards 4Filmography 5References 6External links Theater career Carstensen, the daughter of a physician, was born and raised in the north-German city of Kiel.

Margarethe von Trotta

Margarethe von Trotta born 21 February 1942 is a German film director who has been referred to as a “leading force” of the New German Cinema movement. Von Trotta’s extensive body of work has won awards internationally. She was married to and collaborated with director Volker Schlöndorff. Although they made a successful team, von Trotta felt she was seen as secondary

Elke Sommer

Elke Sommer born Elke Baronin von Schletz, 5 November 1940 is a German actress and artist. She appeared in numerous films in her heyday throughout the 1960s and 1970s, including roles in The Pink Panther sequel A Shot in the Dark (1964), the Bob Hope comedy Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! (1966), Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None (1974 film), and a memorable

Ursula Andress

Ursula Andress (born 19 March 1936) is a Swiss actress, former model and sex symbol, who has appeared in American, British and Italian films. She is best known for her breakthrough role as Bond girl Honey Ryder in the first James Bond film, Dr. No. She later starred as Vesper Lynd in the Bond parody Casino Royale. Her other films include The Southern Star, Fun in