Esther Schweins (born 18 April 1970 in

Oberhausen Oberhausen (, ) is a city on the river Emscher in the Ruhr Area, Germany, located between Duisburg and Essen ( ). The city hosts the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen and its Gasometer Oberhausen is an anchor point of the European Rout ...

) is a German

actress An actor or actress is a person who portrays a Character (arts), character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek ...

and

comedian A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain an audience by making them laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing Amusement is the state of experiencing humorous and entertaining events or situations while the person or a ...

who became famous through her appearances on the '' RTL Samstag Nacht'' show for which she won the

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in 1994.

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Schweins survived the

2004 Indian Ocean earthquake An earthquake and a tsunami, known as the Boxing Day Tsunami and, by the scientific community, the Sumatra–Andaman earthquake, occurred at 07:58:53 local time (UTC+7) on 26 December 2004, with an epicentre off the west coast of northern Suma ...

whilst on holiday with her mother in

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

. She provided the German voice of Princess Fiona for the dubs of the ''Shrek'' franchise. She has a daughter (born 2007) and a son (born 2008). In 2018, she played British suffragette and political activist

Emmeline Pankhurst Emmeline Pankhurst ('' née'' Goulden; 15 July 1858 – 14 June 1928) was an English political activist who organised the UK suffragette movement and helped women win the right to vote. In 1999, ''Time'' named her as one of the 100 Most Impo ...

in the German docudrama ''We are half the World'' (''Die Hälfte der Welt gehört uns'') about the women's suffrage movement in Germany, France and the United Kingdom.

Selected filmography

* ''

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'' (1996) * ' (2007)

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* * * Esther Schweins has practiced yoga since she was 12 years old. Arte Documentary https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/083923-003-A/sacred-varanasi 1968 births Living people People from Oberhausen German women comedians German television actresses 20th-century German actresses 21st-century German actresses {{Germany-comedian-stub