About Karoline Herfurth
Karoline Herfurth (German: [kaʁoˈliːnə ˈhɛʁfʊʁt]; born 22 May 1984) is a German actress and filmmaker. == 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. She went to a Waldorf school in Berlin and graduated from Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts. She learned 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's film A Year ago in Winter, she received the Bavarian Film-Award for best young actress in 2009. Herfurth gave her international debut in 2006 in Perfume: The Story of a Murderer.
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