Franka Potente
Date of birth: 1974-07-22
Place of birth: Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Franke Potente
Biography
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.
Movie Credits
The Elementary Particles
2006-02-10
Based on Michel Houellebecq's controversial novel, Atomised (aka The Elementary Particles) focuses o
Run Lola Run
1998-08-20
Lola receives a phone call from her boyfriend Manni. He lost 100,000 DM in a subway train that belon
Anatomy
2000-02-03
Medical student Paula wins a place at an exclusive Heidelberg medical school. When the body of a you
Anatomy 2
2003-11-23
The doctor and soccer player in the leisure time Jo Hauser decides to move to Berlin and be an inter
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea
2004-06-11
A comic study of 20th-century history, reconstructing the life of writer, creator and professional p
The Bourne Identity
2002-06-14
Wounded to the brink of death and suffering from amnesia, Jason Bourne is rescued at sea by a fisher
The Bourne Supremacy
2004-07-23
A CIA operation to purchase classified Russian documents is blown by a rival agent, who then shows u
Blow
2001-04-04
A boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950's. His mother nags at her husban
It's a Jungle Out There
1995-09-30
Anna, 17 years old, is happy to throw her first big birthday party without her parents, but some of
Blueprint
2003-12-08
The story of the first cloned human being - told in her own words: At the age of thirty the world-fa
Storytelling
2001-11-21
College and high school serve as the backdrop for two stories about dysfunction and personal turmoil
Creep
2004-08-10
Trapped in a London subway station, a woman who's being pursued by a potential attacker heads into t
Am I Beautiful?
1998-09-17
Between Munich and Seville, the destinies of sixteen characters intertwine and intersect, missing ea
Paradise Mall
1999-11-11
Che: Part Two
2008-12-12
Seven years after his triumph in Cuba, Che winds up in Bolivia, where he tries to ignite the same re
I Love Your Work
2003-10-05
A fictional movie star, Gray Evans, goes through the disintegration of his marriage, his gradual men
The Bridge
2008-06-20
A group of German boys is ordered to protect a small bridge in their home village during the waning
The Princess and the Warrior
2000-10-12
Young nurse Sissi lives a secluded life entirely devoted to her patients at Birkenhof asylum. Her fi
Die drei Mädels von der Tankstelle
1997-06-12
Wigald, a spoiled offspring, is no good with women. He finds solace with a psychiatrist and love wit
Romulus, My Father
2007-05-31
The story of Romulus, his beautiful wife, Christina, and their struggle in the face of great adversi
Eichmann
2007-09-22
Based upon the final confession of Adolf Eichmann, made before his execution in Israel, of his role
Try Seventeen
2002-09-10
Teenager Jones has opted not to go to college and is instead renting a room in a boarding house to w
Shanghai
2010-06-10
An American man returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and
La mer
2002-01-01
A man is swimming in the ocean. Suddenly he is hit by something. Unconsciously he drops to the botto
Blood Sisters
1997-11-24
Melanie can't stand her life anymore, a source of too much suffering. One day she decides to end it
Beate Uhse - das Recht auf Liebe
2011-10-09
Beate Uhse was a German pilot and entrepreneur. The only female stunt pilot in Germany in the 1930s,
Downhill City
1999-06-28
A handful of disparate people in Berlin are drawn to the same residential hotel in the drama Downhil
Manhunt
2008-03-10
Nazi hunters Serge and Beate Klarsfeld devoted twelve years of their lives to relentlessly tracking
Small Lights
2010-09-21
Valerie is a self-confident and modern woman - she commutes between L.A., where she works, and Berli
Opera ball
1998-03-15
The Vienna State Opera on Thursday before the Carnival. As every year the large ball rather is atten
Südsee, eigene Insel
1999-07-08
A family spends their vacation in the basement so that their neighbors don't notice that they can't
The Conjuring 2
2016-06-08
Lorraine and Ed Warren travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in
The Bourne Ultimatum
2007-08-03
Bourne is brought out of hiding once again by reporter Simon Ross who is trying to unveil Operation
Muse
2017-11-09
Samuel Salomon, a literature professor, has been off work for almost a year after the tragic death o
Der Island-Krimi: Der Tote im Westfjord
2016-10-27
Crime writer Solveig Karlsdottir is pretty successful - although that's not particularly easy in Ice
25 km/h
2018-10-31
A road movie about two very different brothers who have not seen each other for 20 years: city manag
Between Worlds
2018-12-21
Joe, a down-on-his-luck truck driver haunted by the memory of his deceased wife and child, meets Jul
Princess Emmy
2019-01-24
Princess Emmy has a secret gift – she is the only one in the kingdom of Kandis who can speak to hors
Coming In
1997-01-01
Copywriter Lorenz is gay and has a relationship with his boss Adrian. The two are happy together unt
The Haunted Swordsman
2019-12-13
The latest in acclaimed puppeteer Kevin McTurk’s SPIRIT CABINET series follows a ronin samurai on a
Der Island-Krimi: Tod der Elfenfrau
2016-11-03
In Iceland, Elf Commissioner Isolda Thorsdóttir is found shot in an elf park. Crime writer Solveig K
In Free Fall - Tom Tykwer and the Cinema
2004-11-29
Documentary about the work of director Tom Tykwer, one of the most successful directors in Germany t
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story
2003-07-18
A comic study of 20th-century history, reconstructing the life of writer, creator and professional p
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish
2005-06-09
A comic study of 20th-century history, reconstructing the life of writer, creator and professional p
A Life in Suitcases: A History of Tulse Luper
2005-07-07
A comic study of 20th-century history, reconstructing the life of writer, creator and professional p