1. Johanna Wokalek was born on 3 March 1975 and is a German stage and film actress.
19 Facts About Johanna Wokalek
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Johanna Wokalek received the Bambi award for her portrayal of the Red Army Faction member Gudrun Ensslin in 2008.
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Johanna Wokalek played the lead role in the film Pope Joan in 2009.
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Johanna Wokalek was born in Freiburg, West Germany, daughter of a professor of dermatology from Medias, Romania.
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Johanna Wokalek attended the Friedrich-Gymnasium in Freiburg where she first tried acting in the school's drama group in 1991.
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Still in her studies, 21-year-old Johanna Wokalek made her professional stage debut during the 1996 Wiener Festwochen in Joshua Sobol's play Alma, directed by Paulus Manker.
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Johanna Wokalek featured in TV versions of the plays Alma and Rose Bernd.
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In 2002 Johanna Wokalek played Lene Thurner in the award-winning family drama Hierankl.
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Johanna Wokalek received several awards and nominations for her first leading part in a feature film, among them the 2003 Bavarian Film Award and the 2006 Adolf Grimme Award, which is considered the most important German TV award.
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Johanna Wokalek starred in the 2003 TV three-parter Queen of Cherries by Rainer Kaufmann.
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In 2005 Johanna Wokalek was cast as the female lead in the romantic comedy Barfuss, directed by Til Schweiger.
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Johanna Wokalek was nominated as best German actress for her performances in Barfuss, Hierankl and Queen of Cherries for the Goldene Kamera award in 2006, and received the Shooting Stars Award as best new German actress during the Berlinale in the same year.
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Johanna Wokalek played Anna in the sci-fi thriller Silent Resident, which premiered at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival, and starred as the young journalist Luise Fellner in Phillip Stolzl's North Face.
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Johanna Wokalek was cast as the Red Army Faction terrorist Gudrun Ensslin in Uli Edel's 2008 film The Baader Meinhof Complex, an adaptation of the non-fiction book of the same name by Stefan Aust.
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The adaptation of American novelist Donna Woolfolk Cross' book of the same name is the first time Johanna Wokalek has to carry a large-scale production by herself.
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Johanna Wokalek, who had to tonsure her hair for the role, stars alongside David Wenham and John Goodman.
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On 28 July 2014 Johanna Wokalek made her operatic debut in the world premiere of Marc-Andre Dalbavie's opera Charlotte Salomon given at the Salzburg Festival.
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Johanna Wokalek has appeared in Lars Kraume's Die kommenden Tage and Sherry Hormann's comedy Anleitung zum Unglucklichsein.
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In 2019 Johanna Wokalek plays Ditte Nansen in Christina Schwochow's remake of the novel The German Lesson by Siegfried Lenz.