Karoline Herfurth (; born 22 May 1984) is a German actress.
Life and career
Herfurth was born in
East Berlin,
East Germany
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, the daughter of a
psychologist mother and a
geriatric
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nurse practitioner
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father. Her parents divorced when she was two years old. She grew up in Berlin with a brother and five half-brothers and -sisters.
She went to a
Waldorf school
Waldorf education, also known as Steiner education, is based on the educational philosophy of Rudolf Steiner, the founder of anthroposophy. Its educational style is holistic, intended to develop pupils' intellectual, artistic, and practical ...
in Berlin and graduated from
Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts
The Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts (German: ''Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch'', ''HFS''), based in the Niederschöneweide district of Berlin, Germany, was founded in 1951 as the National Theatre School in Berlin with the stat ...
.
She learnt to play the recorder and studied sociology and political sciences.
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
Caroline Link (born 2 June 1964) is a German film director and screenwriter.
Life and work
Caroline Link is the daughter of Jürgen and Ilse Link. From 1986 to 1990 she studied at the University of Television and Film Munich (HFF), and then wo ...
's film ''
A Year Ago in Winter'', she received the
Bavarian Film Award
The Bavarian Film Awards (german: Bayerischer Filmpreis) have been awarded annually since 1979 by the state government of Bavaria in Germany for “exceptional achievement in German filmmaking.” Along with the German Film Awards, these are the ...
for best young actress in 2009.
Herfurth gave her international debut in 2006 in ''
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer''. In this adaptation of
Patrick Süskind
Patrick Süskind (; born 26 March 1949) is a German writer and screenwriter, known best for his novel '' Perfume: The Story of a Murderer'', first published in 1985.
Early life
Süskind was born in Ambach, Bavaria. His father was writer and jo ...
'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
Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes ( ; born 22 December 1962) is an English actor, film producer, and director. A Shakespeare interpreter, he excelled onstage at the Royal National Theatre before having further success at the Royal Shak ...
in the Academy Award Best Picture-nominee ''
The Reader''.
She directed her first feature-length film ''
SMS für Dich
''SMS für Dich'' ( en, Text for You) is a 2016 German romantic drama film directed and co-written by Karoline Herfurth, based on the 2009 novel of the same name by Sofie Cramer. It stars Herfurth, Friedrich Mücke, Nora Tschirner, Frederick Lau a ...
'' in 2016.
Personal life
Herfurth has spoken out opposing the right-wing
Pegida.
Filmography
References
External links
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''Karoline Herfurth'' at Hollywood.com
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1984 births
Living people
Actresses from Berlin
Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts alumni
German child actresses
German film actresses
German television actresses
Waldorf school alumni
21st-century German actresses
20th-century German actresses
People from East Berlin
People from Pankow