Martina Gedeck
Biography
Martina Gedeck is a German actress born in Munich and raised in Bavaria. She studied at the Berlin University of the Arts from 1982 to 1986 and acted on stage in Frankfurt and Hamburg. Her film breakthrough came in 1994 with Maybe... Maybe Not. She won German Film Awards in 1997 and 2002, and gained international recognition with Mostly Martha (2001), playing a workaholic chef, which brought her a European Film Award nomination. In 2006, she appeared in five films, among them The Lives of Others (2006) and The Good Shepherd (2006). The Lives of Others received an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. She played Ulrike Meinhof in The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008) and appeared in Night Train to Lisbon (2013).
65years old
Turns 66 on September 14in 336 days
- Born Munich
- Star sign: VirgoThe sign runs August 23 to September 22
Movie Career
- Films
- 10
- Career span
- 28 years1994 to 2022
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Early training
Martina Gedeck studied acting at the Berlin University of the Arts from 1982 to 1986. While she was a student there, her first stage role came at the Theater am Turm in Frankfurt.
Martina Gedeck movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Three actors appear in two of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Bruno Ganz's page
Heino Ferch's page
Charly Hübner's page
Awards
Seven awards and honors from 1995 to 2013, one of them major.
| Year | Award | Film | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin Film Festival | |||
| 2008 | Berliner Bär | Won | |
| Other honors | |||
| 2013 | Eckart Witzigmann Prize | Won | |
| 2000 | Bavarian TV Awards | Won | |
| 1995 | Bavarian TV Awards | Won | |
| Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art | Won | ||
| Bavarian Order of Merit | Won | ||
| German Film Award | Won | ||
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