Acting
Laura Tonke
DE, EN cinema · 71 credits
Born
14 April 1974 (age 52)
Birthplace
West Berlin, West Germany
Also known as Laura Maori Tonke
Laura Maori Tonke (born April 14, 1974, in West Berlin) is a German actress. Laura Tonke is the daughter of film set decorator Michael Tonke. She studied theater studies in Berlin until 1996. At the age of 17, she made her on-screen debut in Michael Klier's feature film *Ostkreuz*. Numerous roles in feature films and television movies followed. Additionally, she is booked as a model for lifestyle and fashion magazines. Since the spring of 2007, she has performed on stage in productions by the theater collective Gob Squad at Berlin's Volksbühne (and the Volksbühne im Prater), as well as at other theaters. In 2000, Tonke was awarded the Lilli Palmer Memorial Camera for Best Young Actress. In 2003, she was nominated for the German Film Award for her portrayal of Gudrun Ensslin in Christopher Roth's feature film *Baader*. In the tragicomedy *Hedi Schneider steckt fest* (Hedi Schneider Is Stuck) by Sonja Heiss—which premiered at the 2015 Berlinale—she plays the title character, a woman plagued by sudden anxiety attacks. Her performance garnered enthusiastic reviews; *Der Spiegel*, for instance, wrote: "She inhabits the role of Hedi Schneider [...] so convincingly and perfectly—as if it had been written specifically for her." At the 2016 German Film Awards ceremony, Tonke received a double honor. She won in both the Best Actress category for her role in *Hedi Schneider steckt fest* and the Best Supporting Actress category for the film *Mängelexemplar* (2016). Laura Tonke lives in Berlin and has a son.
Known for
Filmography
Oh, This Unspeakable Void
as Mother Iris
Amrum
as Hille
Long Story Short
as Ellen
22 Lengths
as Andrea
The Prank
as Maria Roosen
Everything's Fifty Fifty
as Marion
Caveman
as Claudia Müller
Jupiter
as Barbara
Maret
as Yvonne
Kein einfacher Mord
as Nina Lieberstein
Jupiter
as Barbara
TKKG
as Erna Sauerlich
My Life as Lotta - Bingo Flamingo
as Sabine Petermann
Totgeschwiegen
as Nele
Mission: Love
as Laura
So viel Zeit
as Steffi
Bist du glücklich?
as Sonja
Axolotl Overkill
as Anika
The Garden
as Eva
Hedi Schneider Is Stuck
as Hedi Schneider
On the Beach
as Laura
The People vs. Fritz Bauer
as Ms. Schütt
Worst Case Scenario
as Meike
Mord in den Dünen
as Cornelia Braun
Headshots
as Anna
The Drifter
as Ann
Bedways
as Luise Walther
I Am Guilty
as Christiane Steeb
In a Sweatbox
as Monika Stauffenberg
Farland
as Karla
Pigs Will Fly
as Inga
Hamlet_X
as Ophelia 4
Baader
as Gudrun Ensslin
June Moon
as Nele
Herz
as Gisela Kenter
Dich schickt der Himmel
as Lara Feiersinger
Der Mörder meiner Mutter
as Anne / Marie
Bitter Innocence
as Vanessa Krüger
Der Pirat
as Sabine
Angel Express
as Jill
Just Married
as Frangipani, geb. Klein
Silvester Countdown
as Käthe
Winter Sleepers
as Nina
Eastern Cross
as Elfie