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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, 1974-07-22

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1995	It's a Jungle Out There	Anna	67
2	1997	Coming In	Nina	48
3	1997	Die drei Mädels von der Tankstelle	Lena	39
4	1997	Blood Sisters	Lisa Manocci	30
5	1998	Opera ball	Gabrielle Becker	70
6	1998	Run Lola Run	Lola	73
7	1998	Am I Beautiful?	Linda	68
8	1999	Downhill City	Peggy	50
9	1999	Südsee, eigene Insel	Kassiererin	38
10	1999	Paradise Mall	Mona Wendt	60
11	2000	Anatomy	Paula	61
12	2000	The Princess and the Warrior	Simone 'Sissi' Schmidt	70
13	2001	Blow	Barbara Buckley	74
14	2001	Storytelling	Toby's Editor	65
15	2002	La mer		56
16	2002	The Bourne Identity	Marie Helena Kreutz	75
17	2002	Try Seventeen	Jane	62
18	2003	The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story	Trixie Boudain	52
19	2003	I Love Your Work	Mia Lang	45
20	2003	Anatomy 2	Paula Henning	57
21	2003	Blueprint	Iris Sellin	41
22	2004	The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea	Trixie Boudain	49
23	2004	The Bourne Supremacy	Marie Helene Kreutz	73
24	2004	Creep	Kate	60
25	2005	A Life in Suitcases	Trixie Boudain	53
26	2006	The Elementary Particles	Annabelle	62
27	2007	Romulus, My Father	Christina	58
28	2007	The Bourne Ultimatum	Marie Helena Kreutz (archive footage) (uncredited)	74
29	2007	Eichmann	Vera Less	60
30	2008	Manhunt	Beate Klarsfeld	70
31	2008	The Bridge	Elfie Bauer	44
32	2008	Che: Part Two	Tania (Haydee Tamara Bunke Bider)	67
33	2010	Shanghai	Leni Müller	61
34	2010	Small Lights	Valerie	23
35	2011	Beate Uhse - das Recht auf Liebe	Beate Uhse	61
36	2016	The Conjuring 2	Anita Gregory	73
37	2016	Der Island-Krimi: Der Tote im Westfjord	Solveig Karlsdóttir	66
38	2016	Der Island-Krimi: Tod der Elfenfrau		63
39	2017	Muse	Susan Gilard	59
40	2018	25 km/h	Ute	69
41	2018	Between Worlds	Julie	50
42	2019	Princess Emmy	Queen Karla (voice)	73
43	2019	The Haunted Swordsman	The Onibaba Witch	75

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	Bambi-Verleihung	Self	90
2	1951	Deutscher Filmpreis	Self	60
3	1979	Bayerischer Filmpreis	Self	0
4	1984	Goldene Kamera Verleihung	Self - Presenter	35
5	1989	Blauer Panther	Self	0
6	1994	Exclusiv - Das Star-Magazin	self	33
7	1994	NeXt	Self	0
8	1994	Zwei Brüder	Mara	55
9	1995	Die Harald Schmidt Show	Self	70
10	1996	Zimmer frei!	Self	63
11	1997	Taff	self	32
12	1997	Leute heute	Self	48
13	1997	Nachtstudio	Self	0
14	1998	The Johannes B. Kerner Show	Self	40
15	1998	Opernball	Gabrielle Becker	0
16	1999	Beckmann	Self	20
17	2001	Aeschbacher	Self	0
18	2002	The Shield	Diro Kesakhian	81
19	2002	Through the Night with...	Self	80
20	2003	Menschen bei Maischberger	Self	63
21	2003	ZIBB	Self	0
22	2004	House	Lydia	86
23	2006	Psych	Nadia	79
24	2011	The Sinking of the Laconia	Hilda Smith	63
25	2011	American Horror Story	Anne Frank / Charlotte Brown	81
26	2012	Copper	Eva Heissen	62
27	2013	The Bridge	Eleanor Nacht	66
28	2013	The Bridge	Elwood Reid	66
29	2017	Taboo	Helga	79
30	2018	Titans	May Bennett / Mother Mayhem	79
31	2022	Echo 3	Hildy	68
32	2023	Mayfair Witches	Anamika	73
33	2023	Castlevania: Nocturne	Erzsebet Báthory (voice)	78

Franka Potente

Film

Television