Name
Franziska Petri
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1973-08-17 (53 years old)
Place of Birth
Leipzig, Saxony, Germany
Biography
From 1992 to 1995, Franziska Petri studied at the renowned „Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Art“ in Berlin. Her cinema debut was a part in „The Big Mambo“ („Das Mambospiel“) by Michael Gwisdek in 1997, which opened the 48th Berlin International Film Festival. With her first leading role in in the award-winning „Forget America“ („Vergiss Amerika“) she attracted both critics' and audiences' attention. After leading roles in the most diverse cinema productions like the historic drama „Leo & Claire“ by Joseph Vilsmaier, the quirky comedy „Max & Moritz Reloaded“ by Thomas Frydetzki, the gloomy thriller „The Heart Is a Dark Forest“ („Das Herz ist ein dunkler Wald“) by Nicolette Krebitz, the political drama „Long Shadows“ („Schattenwelt“) by Connie Walther or the psychological drama „Memory“ („Der Tag, an dem ich meinen toten Mann traf“) by Matthias Luthardt, she appeared in the psychothriller „For Miriam“ („Für Miriam“) by Lars Gunnar Lotz. For her outstanding performance in „For Miriam“ she was awarded
Best Actress at the 59th Berlin International Film Festival 2009 (Perspektive Deutsches Kino),
Best Actress at La Cabina. Festival Internacional de Mediometrajes de Valencia, Spain 2010
and Best Actress at the 11th Aubagne International Film Festival, France 2010. In 2011 she played the starring role in Kirill Serebrennikov's dark tale of love Izmena/Betrayal, which premiered in the official competition of the Venice Film Festival 2012. For her impressive performance she was awarded Best Actress at the 2012 Abu Dhabi Film Festival.
Known For
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Returning to Saint Petersburg after a long exile, the dashing Yakovlev, a retired army off...
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In 1933 Nuremberg, successful Jewish businessman Leo Katzenberger owns an apartment buildi...
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Max and Moritz are two young brothers living an adventurous life of petty crime in Hamburg...
5.5
A woman's life is destroyed when she discovers that her husband has another family....
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The dead body of a tourist is found in the mountains of Tyrol. The murder investigation fo...
- 2000 Forget America as Anna
- 2007 The Heart Is a Dark Forest as Anna
- 2005 Max and Moritz Reloaded as Sozialbeamtin Paula Winter
- 2008 Long Shadows as Valerie Matos
- 2012 Betrayal as She
- 2002 Leo & Claire as Irene Scheffler
- 2003 Tage des Sturms as Claudia Brücken
- 1999 The Volcano as Nathalie
- 1998 The Big Mambo as Julia
- 2006 Das unreine Mal as Susanne 'Susa' Henk
- 1998 Annas Fluch - Tödliche Gedanken as Marie Welte
- 2007 Der Kronzeuge as Denise
- 2005 Wen die Liebe trifft as Franka Rhomberg
- 1995 Mord an der roten Rita as Rita
- 1999 Midsommar Stories as Jacqueline (segment "Sabotage")
- 2007 Porno!Melo!Drama! as Nico
- 2015 Platonow as Sonja
- 2001 Wenn eine Mutter ihr Leben verspielt as Mona Lutter
- 2008 Der Tag, an dem ich meinen toten Mann traf as Helene
- 2016 The Duelist as Aleksandra Iosifovna
- 2016 Dolores as Dolores Moor
- 2016 Midsummer Night's Murder as Monika Löffelhart
- 2000 Die Nachtschwester
- 1995 Operation Medusa as Gilda Gerber
- 2006 Endloser Horizont as Elisabeth 'Lilly' Meier
- 1998 Unsere Kinder! - Verschollen im Urlaub as Steffi
- 2009 Für Miriam
- 2019 Off Season as Judith
- 2019 Hotel Auschwitz as Sabine
- 2021 Come Closer
- 1994 Im Namen des Gesetzes ( 1 episode ) as Maria Franke
- 1994 Im Namen des Gesetzes ( 1 episode ) as Natascha Schwenke
- 1994 Im Namen des Gesetzes ( 1 episode ) as Marion Evans
- 2012 Letzte Spur Berlin ( 1 episode ) as Yvonne Urlach
- 1970 Scene of the Crime ( 1 episode ) as Nadine Schuricke
- 2009 Lasko – Die Faust Gottes ( 1 episode ) as Terrorist
- 1994 Ein starkes Team ( 1 episode ) as Isabel Lagrette
- 1992 Wolffs Revier ( 1 episode ) as Nicole Balser
- 1995 Die Harald Schmidt Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2006 Der Kriminalist ( 1 episode ) as Kim Falkenberg
- 2005 Der Staatsanwalt ( 1 episode ) as Imke Stern
- 2003 SOKO Köln ( 1 episode ) as Hiltrud Emmert
- 2000 Donna Leon ( 1 episode ) as Signorina Benedetta Lerini
- 2009 SOKO Stuttgart ( 1 episode ) as Elke Resch
- 1998 HeliCops - Einsatz über Berlin ( 1 episode ) as Ellen Winter
- 1981 A Case For Two ( 1 episode ) as Britta Abels
- 1994 Die Wache ( 1 episode ) as Isabell Winkler
- 1970 Scene of the Crime ( 1 episode ) as Angela Meerbaum
- 1996 Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police ( 1 episode ) as Dina Klink
- 2009 Flemming ( 1 episode ) as Valerie Venhaus
- 2004 Das Konto ( 2 episodes ) as Laura Spiegelberg
- 1996 Zimmer frei! ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1994 alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2016 Wolfsland ( 1 episode ) as Leonore Pfister
