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Full Name:	Franka Potente
Famous As:	Actress, composer, TV actress
Date of Birth:	July 22, 1974
Place of Birth:	D?lmen, Germany
Height:	5' 8?
Nationality:	German

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Franka Potente
Franka Potente, October 2005
Born	Franka Potente July 22, 1974 (1974-07-22) (age 35) Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Other name(s)	Franke Potente
Occupation	actress singer1
Years active	1995–
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Franka Potente (born July 22, 1974) is a German film actress. She first appeared in the comedy It's a Jungle Out There (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). Potente has performed leading and supporting roles in a variety of low-budget and major studio films, ranging from romantic comedies and drama to science fiction and action thrillers.

Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Personal life 4 Filmography 5 Discography 5.1 Singles 6 References 7 External links

Early life

The elder of two children, Potente was born in Münster,² North Rhine-Westphalia, and raised in nearby Dülmen.³ Her mother, Hildegard, is a medical assistant, and her father, Dieter Potente, is a teacher.⁴ Her Italian surname stems from her great-grandfather, a slate mason who came to Germany from Sicily in the 1800s. At age 17, she spent some months as an exchange student in Humble, Texas.⁵

Career

After finishing high school in Germany, Potente enrolled at the Otto Falckenberg School of Performing Arts in Munich. Potente took acting jobs outside school time and appeared in her first movie in the 1995 student film Aufbruch. She was then spotted by a casting agent and appeared in the film Nach Fünf im Urwald (It's a Jungle Out There), directed by her then-boyfriend, Hans Christian Schmid. She received the 1995 Bavarian Film Prize for Young Talent for her work in this film. She then finished her last year of training at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in Manhattan.

Potente returned to Europe and worked in many German and French films. She was cast as the lead in Lola Rennt (Run Lola Run) after meeting the director, Tom Tykwer, in a café. The part was written for her and although the film was a small-budget, art house film production, it was popular in Europe. Franka Potente also performed on the soundtrack. She made several more German-language films, including the horror film Anatomy and the romantic thriller The Princess and the Warrior.

Potente's first English-language role was that of the narrator in Storytelling in 2001. This was followed by a role in Blow, with Johnny Depp, and the female lead in The Bourne Identity, with Matt Damon, which she reprised in The Bourne Supremacy. 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.

Starting on May 22, 2007, Potente had a three-episode recurring role in FX drama The Shield, where she played Diro Kesakhian, the ruthless Godmother of LA's Armenian Mafia.⁶

In September 2009, she appeared in an episode of the TV show House M.D.

Personal life

When not working on location, Potente lives in Berlin. She has dated American actor Elijah Wood and director Tom Tykwer. In 2008, she became engaged to an American businessman. She told the German tabloid Bild that her fiance's name is Dio Jason Kay Hauser and that they plan on having children⁷. In September 2009, however, the couple separated and the engagement was called off.⁸

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Other notes
1995	Nach Fünf im Urwald (It's a Jungle Out There)	Anna	Bavarian Film Award - Best Young Actress
1997	Coming In	Nina	Television film
1998	Opernball	Gabrielle Becker	Television film Bavarian TV Award - Best Actress
	Run Lola Run	Lola	Bambi Award - Best Actress
	Bin ich schön?	Linda
1999	Downhill City	Peggy	Television film
2000	Anatomy	Paula Henning
	The Princess and the Warrior	Simone 'Sissi' Schmidt
2001	Blow	Barbara Buckley
	Storytelling	Editor
2002	The Bourne Identity	Marie Helena Kreutz
	All I Want	Jane
2003	I Love Your Work	Mia
	Blueprint	Iris Sellin/Siri Sellin
	Anatomy 2	Paula Henning
2004	The Bourne Supremacy	Marie Helena Kreutz
	Creep	Kate
2005	The Elementary Particles	Annabelle
2006	The Shield (TV series)	Diro Kesakhian
	Der die Tollkirsche ausgräbt		silent black & white movie, written and directed by Franka Potente
2007	Romulus, My Father	Christine Anna Gaita (née Dörr)
	The Bourne Ultimatum	Marie Helena Kreutz (Deceased)	Flashbacks Only
2008	Che	Tamara "Tania" Bunke
2009	House (TV series)	Lydia

Discography

Singles

• "Believe" (1998)
• "Wish (Komm Zu Mir)" (1998)
• "Easy Day" (1999)
• "Fly With Me" (2001)

References

External links

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NAME	Potente, Franka
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Actor
DATE OF BIRTH	1974-7-22
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dülmen, Münsterland, Germany
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH