Acting
Heike Makatsch
DE, EN cinema · 58 credits
Born
13 August 1971 (age 55)
Birthplace
Düsseldorf, Germany
Makatsch was born in Düsseldorf, Germany, the daughter of former German national ice hockey team goaltender Rainer Makatsch. She spent several months in New Mexico in 1988 in an effort to improve her English, and later studied politics and sociology at the University of Düsseldorf for four semesters, which was followed by an apprenticeship as a dressmaker until 1994. Her television career started in 1993, when she was hired by music channel VIVA, hosting shows such as Interaktiv and Heikes Hausbesuche; two years later, on August 13 1995, she became the host of the German chart show BRAVO TV, aired by RTL II, a position she kept until summer 1996. In 1997 she started hosting her own weekly, late night show titled Heike Makatsch Show. However, due to bad ratings, it was cancelled after only eight episodes. Makatsch first appeared in a movie in 1996, when she starred in Detlev Buck's Männerpension (English: "Jailbirds"); she received the Bavarian Film Award as most talented young actor for her performance. Since then, she has appeared in several German and English language productions.
Known for
Filmography
Akiko, the Flying Monkey
as Police Chief
Slava der Hund
as Laura
Zero
as Cynthia Bonsant
9 Days Awake
as Liane Stehfest
God, You’re Such a Prick
as Eva Pape
Kroos
as Self
Benjamin the Elephant
as Zora Zack
I've Never Been to New York
as Lisa Wartberg
Manhunt: Bloody Tango
as Gisela Tezloff
The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
as Frau Reimann
Strange Daughter
as Hannah
Teenosaurus Rex
as Sara Wenger
Twice New Life
as Ännie Borchert
The Pasta Detectives 3
as Kellnerin
Speechless
as mother
About a Girl
as Sabine
Wir machen durch bis morgen früh
as Melanie Struttmann
Everything is Love
as Clara
The Book Thief
as Liesel's Mother
Back on Track
as Birgit Averhoff
Homecoming
as Katarina Endriss
Sechzehneichen
as Laura Eichhorn
The Adventures of Huck Finn
as Tante Polly
Tom Sawyer
as Tante Polly
Hilde
as Hildegard Knef
The Door
as Gia
Dr. Hope
as Hope Bridges Adams
Schade um das schöne Geld
as Mirabel Blinker
Schwesterherz
as Anna, Screenplay
Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution
as Frau Unger
Hui Buh: The Castle Ghost
as Leonora Gräfin zu Etepetete
No Songs of Love
as Ellen
A Sound of Thunder
as Alicia Wallenbeck
Tara Road
as Bernadette
Margarete Steiff
as Margarete Steiff
Almost Heaven - Ein Cowgirl auf Jamaika
as Helen Schuster
Anatomy 2
as Viktoria
Das Wunder von Lengede
as Renate Reger
Resident Evil
as Lisa
Naked
as Emilia
Nachts im Park
as Katharina Lumis
A Goddamn Job
as Katinka Sirena
Late Night Shopping
as Madeline
Gripsholm
as Prinzessin
Longitude
as Queen Charlotte
Aimée & Jaguar
as Klärchen
Das Gelbe vom Ei
as Floris Blinker
Männer und andere Katastrophen
as Judith Kern
Am I Beautiful?
as Vera
Obsession
as Miriam Auerbach
Männerpension
as Maren Krummsieg