Franka Potente
Franka Potente is a German film actress and singer. She was born on July 22, 1974 in Münster North Rhine-Westphalia and raised in nearby Dülmen. She first appeared in the comedy After Five in the Forest Primeval (1995) and gained critical recognition in the action thriller Lola rennt (released in English as Run Lola Run) (1998). Potente received Germany's highest film and television awards for her performances in Run Lola Run and Opernball. After half a decade of critically acclaimed roles in German films, Potente gained Hollywood's attention by playing the role of Barbara Buckley in Blow (2001) and the female lead with Matt Damon in The Bourne Identity (2002). In 2006, she starred with Eric Bana in the Australian film Romulus, My Father, for which she was nominated for an Australian Film Industry Award for Best Lead Actress. Also in 2006, she wrote and directed Der die Tollkirsche ausgräbt, a silent comedy. She has also appeared in several American television series including, The Shield in 2007, House M.D. in 2009 and Psych in 2010. As of 2011, she played Hilda in a BBC drama The Sinking of the Laconia. When not working on location, Potente lives in Berlin.
Blow
as Barbara BuckleyA boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950's. His mother nags at her...
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The Conjuring 2
as Anita GregoryLorraine and Ed Warren travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children...
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Wounded to the brink of death and suffering from amnesia, Jason Bourne is rescued at sea by a...
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Storytelling
as Toby's EditorCollege and high school serve as the backdrop for two stories about dysfunction and personal...
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Run Lola Run
as LolaLola receives a phone call from her boyfriend Manni. He lost 100,000 DM in a subway train that...
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A CIA operation to purchase classified Russian documents is blown by a rival agent, who then...
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Creep
as KateTrapped in a London subway station, a woman who's being pursued by a potential attacker heads...
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Between Worlds
as JulieJoe—a down-on-his-luck truck driver haunted by the memory of his deceased wife and child—meets...
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Muse
as Susan GilardSamuel Salomon, a literature professor, has been off work for almost a year after the tragic...
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Shanghai
as Leni MüllerAn American man returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor...
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Anatomy 2
as Paula HenningThe doctor and soccer player in the leisure time Jo Hauser decides to move to Berlin and be an...
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After the Cuban Revolution, Che is at the height of his fame and power. Then he disappears,...
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Eichmann
as Vera LessBased upon the final confession of Adolf Eichmann, made before his execution in Israel, of his...
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Try Seventeen
as JaneTeenager Jones has opted not to go to college and is instead renting a room in a boarding house...
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Anatomy
as PaulaMedical student Paula wins a place at an exclusive Heidelberg medical school. When the body of a...
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The Elementary Particles
as AnnabelleBased on Michel Houellebecq's controversial novel, Atomised (aka The Elementary Particles)...
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Opera ball
as Gabrielle BeckerThe Vienna State Opera on Thursday before the Carnival. As every year the large ball rather is...
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Blueprint
as Iris SellinThe story of the first cloned human being - told in her own words: At the age of thirty the...
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Princess Emmy
as Queen Karla (voice)Princess Emmy has a secret gift – she is the only one in the kingdom of Kandis who can speak to...
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The Princess and the Warrior
as Simone 'Sissi' SchmidtYoung nurse Sissi lives a secluded life entirely devoted to her patients at Birkenhof asylum....
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The Bridge
as Elfie BauerA group of German boys is ordered to protect a small bridge in their home village during the...
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La mer
as uncreditedA man is swimming in the ocean. Suddenly he is hit by something. Unconsciously he drops to the...
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25 km/h
as UteA road movie about two very different brothers who have not seen each other for 20 years: city...
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I Love Your Work
as Mia LangA fictional movie star, Gray Evans, goes through the disintegration of his marriage, his gradual...
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Am I Beautiful?
as LindaGerman people having trouble with love and identity.
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Downhill City
as PeggyA handful of disparate people in Berlin are drawn to the same residential hotel in the drama...
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The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story
as Trixie BoudainThe Tulse Luper Suitcases reconstructs the life of Tulse Luper, a professional writer and...
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Romulus, My Father
as ChristinaThe story of Romulus, his beautiful wife, Christina, and their struggle in the face of great...
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Coming In
as NinaCopywriter Lorenz is gay and has a relationship with his boss Adrian. The two are happy together...
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It's a Jungle Out There
as AnnaAnna, 17 years old, is happy to throw her first big birthday party without her parents, but some...
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A Life in Suitcases
as Trixie BoudainFollows Tulse Luper as he is swept into the ill-fortuned tides of the 20th century and forced to...
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The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea
as Trixie BoudainThe Tulse Luper Suitcases reconstructs the life of Tulse Luper, a professional writer and...
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The Haunted Swordsman
as The Onibaba WitchThe latest in acclaimed puppeteer Kevin McTurk’s SPIRIT CABINET series follows a ronin samurai...
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Beate Uhse - das Recht auf Liebe
as Beate UhseBeate Uhse was a German pilot and entrepreneur. The only female stunt pilot in Germany in the...
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Blood Sisters
as Lisa ManocciMelanie can't stand her life anymore, a source of too much suffering. One day she decides to end...
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American Horror Story
as Anne Frank / Charlotte BrownAn anthology horror drama series centering on different characters and locations, including a...
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Psych
as NadiaThanks to his police officer father's efforts, Shawn Spencer spent his childhood developing a...
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House
as LydiaDr. Gregory House, a drug-addicted, unconventional, misanthropic medical genius, leads a team of...
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Die Harald Schmidt Show
as SelfThe Harald Schmidt Show is a German late night talk show hosted on Sky Deutschland by comedian...
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Titans
as May Bennett / Mother MayhemA team of young superheroes led by Nightwing (formerly Batman's first Robin) form to combat evil...
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The Shield
as Diro KesakhianThe story of an inner-city Los Angeles police precinct where some of the cops aren't above...
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Taboo
as HelgaAdventurer James Keziah Delaney returns to London from Africa in 1814 along with fourteen stolen...
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Through the Night with...
as SelfDurch die Nacht mit … is a German documentary film television series produced by ZDF for...
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Bambi Awards
as SelfThe Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented...
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Taff
as selfTaff is a tabloid news magazine airing on the German television network, ProSieben.
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Castlevania: Nocturne
as Erzsebet Báthory (voice)In the thick of the French Revolution, members of the so-called lower classes are rising up to...
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The Bridge
as Elwood ReidA murdered body on a bridge between El Paso and Juarez bring together El Paso detective Sonya...
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The Bridge
as Eleanor NachtA murdered body on a bridge between El Paso and Juarez bring together El Paso detective Sonya...
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Echo 3
as HildyWhen brilliant scientist Amber Chesborough vanishes along the Colombia-Venezuela border, her...
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The Sinking of the Laconia
as Hilda SmithThe true story of the Allied ship Laconia, sunk in WWII by a German U-Boat, which then surfaced...
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Copper
as Eva HeissenKevin Corcoran is a rugged young Irish immigrant policeman trying to keep the peace in the...
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