Franka Potente

Acting · Born 1974-07-22 in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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…

Filmography

• Run Lola Run as Lola
• The Bourne Supremacy as Marie Helene Kreutz
• The Bourne Identity as Marie Helena Kreutz
• Blow as Barbara Buckley
• The Conjuring 2 as Anita Gregory
• The Bourne Ultimatum as Marie Helena Kreutz (archive footage) (uncredited)
• The Elementary Particles as Annabelle
• Anatomy 2 as Paula Henning
• Anatomy as Paula
• The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea as Trixie Boudain

TV

• The Shield as Diro Kesakhian
• American Horror Story as Anne Frank / Charlotte Brown
• Psych as Nadia
• Taboo as Helga
• Castlevania: Nocturne as Erzsebet Báthory (voice)
• Titans as May Bennett / Mother Mayhem
• House as Lydia
• Copper as Eva Heissen
• The Sinking of the Laconia as Hilda Smith
• The Bridge as Eleanor Nacht