Barbara Meier

Barbara Meier is a German fashion model and actress who won the second season of Germany's Next Topmodel in 2007. Born in Amberg, she was studying mathematics in Regensburg when a model scout invited her to the casting for that show. The win brought her a contract with IMG Models in Paris and a Cosmopolitan cover, and she went on to front advertising campaigns for brands such as Pantene and C&A while also walking runways in Berlin, Paris and New York. She turned to acting after landing the part of a deaf medium in the television thriller Schreie der Vergessenen, later training at the New York Film Academy and taking roles in ZDF crime series and short films. Her first movie was the period drama The Aspern Papers (2019), in which she appeared alongside Jonathan Rhys Meyers. In 2015 she published the book Dein Weg zum Glücksgewicht.