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Franka Potente is a German actress known for her work in film and television. She gained international recognition for her role in the action thriller film "The Bourne Identity" and has since appeared in various other notable productions across different genres.
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Film & TV
Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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…
Known for
- 23 000 Lives — Anne2026
- Castlevania: Nocturne — Erzsebet Báthory (voice)2023
- Mayfair Witches — Annamieke2023
- Echo 3 — Hildy2022
- Dark Winds — Irene Vaggan2022
- Princess Emmy — Queen Karla (voice)2019
- The Haunted Swordsman — The Onibaba Witch2019
- 25 km/h — Ute2018
- Between Worlds — Julie2018
- Titans — May Bennett / Mother Mayhem2018
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Place of birth
- Münster
- Spouse
- Derek Richardson
- Occupation
- voice actor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Image
- MJK 335110 Franka Potente (NRW-Empfang, Berlinale 2019).jpg
- Number of children
- 2
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- notable role
- Beate Uhse-Rotermund
- unmarried partner
- Tom Tykwer
- Commons category
- Franka Potente
- date of birth
- 1974-07-22
- name in native language
- Franka Potente
- start of work period
- 1995-00-00
- lifestyle
- veganism
- nominated for
- Jameson People's Choice Award for Best Actress
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Encyclopedic overview
Franka Potente ( German: [fʁaŋka poˈtɛn.tə] ; born 22 July 1974) is a German actress. 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 starred in the acclaimed action thriller Run Lola Run, for which she won a BAMBI Award for Best Actress. She received further critical acclaim and a Bavarian Television Award nomination for her performance in the television film Opernball (also 1998).
After half a decade of well-received roles in German productions, Potente made the transition into Hollywood with her role in the biographical crime film Blow (2001), and achieved wider recognition for her appearances in The Bourne Identity (2002) and The Bourne Supremacy (2004). She portrayed communist revolutionary Tamara Bunke in Che (2008), and psychologist Anita Gregory in The Conjuring 2 (2016). Her other notable films include Anatomy (2000), The Princess and the Warrior (2000), Creep (2004), Romulus, My Father (2007), Eichmann (2007), and Muse (2017).
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