Sibel Kekilli

Sibel Kekilli (born 16 June 1980) is a German actress. She gained public attention after starring in the 2004 film Head-On. She won two Lolas, the most prestigious German film awards, for her performances in Head-On and When We Leave (2010). Beginning in 2011, she became more widely known for her role as Shae in the HBO series Game of Thrones. Contents   1Personal life 2Career 3Political activism

Franka Potente

Franka Potente born 22 July 1974 is a German actress and singer. She first appeared in the comedy film After Five in the Forest Primeval (1995), for which she won a Bavarian Film Award for Best Young Actress. Her breakthrough came in 1998, when she portrayed the titular role in the acclaimed action thriller Run Lola Run, for which she won

Lilia Skala

Lilia Skala 28 November 1896 – 18 December 1994 was an Austrian-American architect and actress. She is perhaps best known for her role in the film Lilies of the Field (1963), for which she received critical acclaim and an Academy Award nomination. During her career, Skala was also nominated for two Golden Globe Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award. Before Skala decided to

Marianne Sägebrecht

Marianne Sägebrecht orn 27 August 1945 is a German film actress. Her background included stints as a medical lab assistant and magazine assistant editor before she found her calling in show business. Claiming to be inspired by Bavaria’s mad King Ludwig II, she became known as the “mother of Munich’s subculture” as producer and performer of

Renée Soutendijk

Renette Pauline Soutendijk  born 21 May 1957, known professionally as Renée Soutendijk, is a Dutch actress. A gymnast in her youth, Soutendijk began her acting career in the late 1970s. She was a favorite star of director Paul Verhoeven’s films, and is perhaps best known for her work in his 1980 release Spetters and 1983’s The Fourth Man. Her good looks

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