About Franka Potente
Franka Potente (German: [fʁaŋka poˈtɛn.tə]; born 22 July 1974) is a German actress. She first appeared in the comedy film After Five in the Forest Primeval (1995), for which she won a Bavarian Film Award for Best Young Actress. Her breakthrough came in 1998, when she starred in the acclaimed action thriller Run Lola Run, for which she won a BAMBI Award for Best Actress. She received further critical acclaim and a Bavarian Television Award nomination for her performance in the television film Opernball (also 1998). After half a decade of well-received roles in German productions, Potente made the transition into Hollywood with her role in the biographical crime film Blow (2001), and achieved wider recognition for her appearances in The Bourne Identity (2002) and The Bourne Supremacy (2004). She portrayed communist revolutionary Tamara Bunke in Che (2008), and psychologist Anita Gregory in The Conjuring 2 (2016). Her other notable films include Anatomy (2000), The Princess and the Warrior (2000), Creep (2004), Romulus, My Father (2007), Eichmann (2007), and Muse (2017). Potente has starred in the television series Copper (2012–2014), Taboo (2017), Claws, Titans and Echo 3. She played recurring roles in the second seasons of American Horror Story (2012) and The Bridge (2014). She is currently starring in season 4 of Dark Winds, an AMC adaptation of the novels of Tony Hillerman produced by Robert Redford and George R.R. Martin. The film, first screened at the Cannes Film Festival, garnered a positive critical response while it made US$40.9 million worldwide. Potente took acting jobs outside school time and appeared in her first movie in the 1995 student film Aufbruch (Departure).
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