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- Actress
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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 fashion model. She later pursued acting and relocated to Paris at the suggestion of filmmaker Luc Besson (The Fifth Element (1997)). She married French actor Guillaume Canet (The Beach (2000)) in 2001.- Actress
- Soundtrack
Pam Ferris was born on 11 May 1948 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany. She is an actress, known for Matilda (1996), Children of Men (2006) and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004). She has been married to Roger Frost since August 1986.- Actress
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Additional Crew
Carolina Bartczak is a Polish/Canadian actor and producer. She was born in Germany after her family had fled Martial Law in Poland and later immigrated to Toronto, Canada.
She earned a Bachelor of Science at The University of Toronto, and then studied at Université of Lyon in France. In 2012 she turned to acting and studied the Meisner Technique at The Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City.
After several smaller roles in film and television, she went on to play the role of Magda, the wife of Magneto in X-Men: Apocalypse. Since then she has made appearances in many television shows and films, and she plays the role of Brenda Lopez in Moonfall, alongside Halle Berry, Patrick Wilson, and Michael Pena.
She is fluent in English, French and Polish- Actor
- Additional Crew
- Writer
Chris Barrie was born Christopher Jonathan Brown on March 28, 1960, in a British military hospital in Hanover, Germany. He was brought up in Northern Ireland and was a boarder at Methodist College Belfast. He was Head Boy in his final year and played the lead in a "Dial M for Murder" production. He started a business course at Brighton Polytechnic but dropped out. After working at various jobs and developing his impressionist skills, he decided to shift careers to television and film.
He originally met Rob Grant and Doug Naylor on Jasper Carrott's Carrott's Lib (1982), and eventually went on to perform on the radio, for a show called "Son of Cliche", which both Rob Grant and Doug Naylor were working on. Around this time, he was working on the television show, Spitting Image (1984).
This association with Rob Grant and Doug Naylor later caused the two of them to have him audition for Red Dwarf (1988). A few years after the beginning of Red Dwarf (1988), he brought life to another character in the sitcom The Brittas Empire (1991).
He lives in Berkshire, England, with his wife Alecks.- Actor
- Producer
- Writer
German actor Christian Oliver worked in the entertainment industry for more than 15 years, with, among others, Steven Soderbergh in The Good German; with Brian Singer and Tom Cruise in Valkyrie; and with the Wachowski sisters in Speed Racer. He also starred in Europe's Number One action series Alarm for Cobra 11 (RTL) for two years and had numerous other TV appearances in the US and Germany.- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Edward Berger was born in 1970 in Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, Germany. He is a director and writer, known for All Quiet on the Western Front (2022), Jack (2014) and Deutschland 83 (2015). He is married to Nele Mueller-Stöfen.- Actor
- Producer
- Soundtrack
Mehmet Kurtulus was born on 27 April 1972 in Salzgitter, Lower Saxony, Germany. He is an actor and producer, known for Big Game (2014), In July (2000) and Tatort (1970).- Actress
- Director
- Writer
Maria Schrader was born in Hanover, Federal Republic of Germany, on September 27th, 1965. She directed and co-wrote the screenplay of the awards-winning film Liebesleben (2007). As well, she directed Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe (2016) and the Emmy-award wining miniseries Unorthodox (2020) (Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series). She is well known for acting in Nobody Loves Me (1994), Aimee & Jaguar (1999), The Giraffe (1998), Deutschland 83 (2015), Deutschland 86 (2018) and Deutschland 89 (2020).- Noted stage actress who has also done limited work in TV and film. Born in Germany and raised in Madison, Wisconsin, she studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London. Her Broadway debut was in "The Seagull" in 1938. She won her first Tony (and other awards) in 1950 for Clifford Odets "The Country Girl". Her second Tony was for the role of Martha in Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?".
She later became a highly influential acting teacher at New York's HB Studio (founded by Herbert Berghof in 1945) and authored best-selling acting texts, Respect for Acting, with Haskel Frankel, and A Challenge for the Actor. Her most substantial contributions to theater pedagogy were a series of "object exercises" that built on the work of Konstantin Stanislavski and Yevgeni Vakhtangov.
She was elected to the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1981. She twice won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play and received a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1999. - Actress
- Director
- Writer
Katja Riemann was born on 1 November 1963 in Kirchweyhe, Weyhe, Lower Saxony, Germany. She is an actress and director, known for Suck Me Shakespeer (2013), Rosenstrasse (2003) and Bandits (1997).- Gudrun Landgrebe was born on 20 June 1950 in Göttingen, Lower Saxony, West Germany. She is an actress, known for Die Katze (1988), Yerma (1984) and A Woman in Flames (1983). She has been married to Ulrich von Nathusius since June 2001.
- Actress
- Composer
- Music Department
Lena Meyer-Landrut was born on 23 May 1991 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany. She is an actress and composer, known for What a Man (2011), Lena: If I Wasn't Your Daughter (2017) and Lena: Thank You (2018). She has been married to Mark Forster since 2020. They have one child.- Actress
- Make-Up Department
Juliane Köhler was born on 6 August 1965 in Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany. She is an actress, known for Downfall (2004), Aimee & Jaguar (1999) and Nowhere in Africa (2001). She has been married to Michael Rösch since 1996. They have two children.- Anne Ratte-Polle was born in 1974 in Peheim, Molbergen, Cloppenburg, Lower Saxony, Germany. She is an actress, known for Dark (2017), I Was, I Am, I Will Be (2019) and Two Sides of the Abyss (2023).
- Composer
- Music Department
- Actor
Max Richter was born on 22 March 1966 in Hamelin, Lower Saxony, West Germany. He is a composer and actor, known for Arrival (2016), The Leftovers (2014) and Ad Astra (2019).- Music Artist
- Actor
- Composer
Herbert Grönemeyer was born on 12 April 1956 in Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany. He is a music artist and actor, known for Das Boot (1981), The American (2010) and A Most Wanted Man (2014). He was previously married to Anna Henkel-Grönemeyer.- Actor
- Writer
- Director
Detlef Bothe was born on 24 July 1965 in Brunswick, Lower Saxony, Germany. He is an actor and writer, known for Anthropoid (2016), Feiertag (2002) and Spectre (2015).- Director
- Writer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Nora Fingscheidt was born on 17 February 1983 in Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, Germany. She is a director and writer, known for System Crasher (2019), The Unforgivable (2021) and Ohne diese Welt (2017).- Actress
- Writer
- Soundtrack
Marleen Lohse was born on 28 February 1984 in Soltau, Lower Saxony, Germany. She is an actress and writer, known for The Fifth Estate (2013), Cleo (2019) and Frauen, die Geschichte machten (2013).- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Born in 1973 in Hannover, Germany, Dennis Gansel studied at Munich Film School HFF. Remarkably his first feature length movie Das Phantom (2000) was shot while he was still studying. Between his movies Girls on Top (2001), Before the Fall (2004) and The Wave (2008) he spent a long time struggling for the budget of the films. During these times he shot commercials. Dennis Gansel lives in Berlin.- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Sebastian Schipper was born on 8 May 1968 in Hanover, Lower Saxony, West Germany. He is an actor and director, known for Victoria (2015), Roads (2019) and The English Patient (1996).- Actor
- Writer
- Director
Mathieu Carrière was born on 2 August 1950 in Hanover, Lower Saxony, West Germany. He is an actor and writer, known for La maison des bories (1970), Young Törless (1966) and Quantum Leap (1989).- Roswitha Szyszkowitz was born on 1 February 1972 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany. She is an actress, known for Tatort (1970), Wonderful and Loved by All (2007) and Heimspiel (2004).
- Actress
- Director
Lena Kalisch was born in 1989 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany. She is an actress and director, known for The Awakening of Motti Wolkenbruch (2018), Tatort (1970) and Fucking Drama (2017).- Actor
- Producer
- Director
Dieter Schidor was born on 6 March 1948 in Bienrode [now Brunswick], Lower Saxony, Germany. He was an actor and producer, known for Cross of Iron (1977), Kurze Kindheit, langer Abschied (1987) and Group Portrait with a Lady (1977). He was married to Michael McLernon. He died on 17 September 1987 in Munich, Bavaria, West Germany.