Juliane Köhler (born 6 August 1965) is a German theatre, television and film actress. She was born in

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to a

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. During the period from 1985 to 1988, she studied under

Uta Hagen Uta Thyra Hagen (12 June 1919 – 14 January 2004) was a German-American actress and theatre practitioner. She originated the role of Martha in the 1962 Broadway premiere of '' Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'' by Edward Albee, who called her "a ...

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and attended

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. She also received

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instruction in

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. Since her first appearance at

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's Lower Saxon State Theatre in 1988, she has regularly appeared in German theatre productions. She performed in an ensemble cast of the

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n State Theatre during 1993–1997. She left the company because her filming of '' Aimée & Jaguar'' interfered with rehearsals for a production of '' Das Käthchen von Heilbronn''. She later returned to Munich to participate with the

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. She has starred in the 1999 film '' Aimée & Jaguar'' (as Lilly Wust, or Aimée); the 2001 film '' Nowhere in Africa'' (as Jettel Redlich); the 2004 film '' Downfall'' (as Eva Braun); the 2008 film '' Haber'' as Clara, the wife of Fritz Shimon Haber; Christina in '' Eden Is West'' (2009) and starred in '' Two Lives'' (2012) as Katrine Evensen Myrdal.

Selected filmography

Awards

*1998 Bavarian Film Award for Best Actress, '' Aimée & Jaguar'

*1999 49th Berlin International Film Festival - Silver Bear for Best Actress *2014 '' Two Lives'' was Germany's official submission to the Best Foreign Language Film category of the 86th Academy Awards in 2014.

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* * 1965 births Living people German film actresses Actors from Göttingen Waldorf school alumni Best Actress German Film Award winners Silver Bear for Best Actress winners German television actresses 20th-century German actresses 21st-century German actresses German stage actresses Actresses from Lower Saxony {{Germany-screen-actor-stub