Karoline Herfurth
Herfurth at Bayerischer Filmpreis 2012
Born (1984-05-22) 22 May 1984
East Berlin, East Germany
OccupationActress

Karoline Herfurth (German: [kaʁoˈliːnə ˈhɛʁfʊʁt] ⓘ; born 22 May 1984) is a German actress.

Life and career

Herfurth was born in East Berlin, East Germany, the daughter of a psychologist mother and a geriatric nurse practitioner father. Her parents divorced when she was two years old. She grew up in Berlin with a brother and five half-brothers and -sisters.[1] She went to a Waldorf school in Berlin and graduated from Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts.[2] She learnt to play the recorder and studied sociology and political sciences.[3]

Career

Herfurth had her first role in a TV series at age ten, and her first part in a movie in 2000, when she was fifteen. She has held several parts as a teenager in German movies such as Mädchen, Mädchen (2001) and Big Girls Don't Cry (2002) and leading parts both in TV productions and independent German films. For her part as Lilli Richter in Caroline Link's film A Year Ago in Winter, she received the Bavarian Film Award for best young actress in 2009.[4]

Herfurth gave her international debut in 2006 in Perfume: The Story of a Murderer. In this adaptation of Patrick Süskind's best-selling novel Das Parfum, she played the "Plum Girl", the first victim of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille. In 2008, she co-starred with Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes in the Academy Award Best Picture-nominee The Reader.[5]

She directed her first feature-length film SMS für Dich in 2016.

Personal life

Herfurth has spoken out opposing the right-wing Pegida movement in Germany.[6]

Filmography

Film and television
Year Title Role Notes
2000Küss mich, FroschMary
CrazyAnna
2001Mädchen, MädchenLenatitled Girls on Top in USA
2002Big Girls Don't CrySteffi
2003Mein Name ist BachPrinzessin Amalie
2004Anemonenherz(short)
Mädchen, Mädchen 2 - Loft oder LiebeLenatitled Girls on Top 2 in USA
2005OffsideHayat
2006Perfume: The Story of a MurdererThe Plum Girl
2007Peer GyntSolvejgTV
PornoramaLuzi
2008A Year Ago in WinterLilli Richter
The ReaderMarthe
2009Berlin 36Gretel Bergmann
2010Vincent Wants to SeaMarie
We Are the NightLena[7]
So wie wir hier zusammen sindHilde(short)
2011Promising the MoonYoung Marga Baumanis
FortressClaudia
2012ZettlVerena
Errors of the Human BodyRebekka
2013PassionDani
Fack ju GöhteLisi Schnabelstedt
2014The Pasta DetectivesRico's mother Tanja Doretti
2015TraumfrauenHannah Reimann
The Pasta Detectives 2Rico's mother Tanja Doretti
Fack ju Göhte 2Lisi Schnabelstedt
Ghosthunters on Icy TrailsHopkins
2016Rico, Oskar and the Mysterious StoneRico's mother Tanja Doretti
SMS für DichClaraAlso director
2017You Are WantedLena ArandtTV series
2018The Little WitchThe Little Witch
BeatEmiliaTV series
2019SweetheartsFrannyAlso director
Das perfekte GeheimnisCarlotta Keschwari
2022WunderschönSonjaAlso director
Einfach mal was SchönesKarlaAlso director

References

  1. ↑ Christine Koischwitz (October 2007). "Karoline Herfurth: Hoch!". Park Avenue.de (in German). Archived from the original on 6 January 2012. Retrieved 28 February 2012.
  2. ↑ Nina Anika Klotz. "Karoline Herfurth, Biografie". Gala (in German). Archived from the original on 6 September 2011. Retrieved 28 February 2012.
  3. ↑ Mareen Linnartz (17 November 2008). ""Ich musste fast jeden Tag weinen"". Frankfurter Rundschau (in German). Retrieved 4 December 2021.
  4. ↑ "Gala in München: Bayerischer Filmpreis geht an "Baader Meinhof Komplex"". Der Tagesspiegel (in German). 16 January 2009. Retrieved 28 February 2012.
  5. ↑ Karoline Herfurth at Hollywood.com
  6. ↑ "Germany Pegida protests: 'Islamisation' rallies denounced". BBC News. 6 January 2015.
  7. ↑ 'Inside' Team Unloads Full Trailer for 'We Are the Night'!!
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