Bernadette Heerwagen
German actress (born 1977)
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- Bernadette Heerwagen (born 22 June 1977) is a German actress.
- She went on to appear in a variety of leading and supporting roles in German and Austrian television, films, dramas and European cinema.
- She has twice won Best Actress award at the Adolf-Grimme-Preis, in 2005 and 2008, and has won Best Actress at the Bayerischer Fernsehpreis (aka Bavarian TV Awards) in 2000.
- Heerwagen has one brother, Philipp Heerwagen, born in 1983, who is a professional soccer player for the German football team FC Ingolstadt.
- Alexandre approached Heerwagen, then aged sixteen, and asked her to play the lead role in his new film for German television.
Bernadette Heerwagen (born 22 June 1977) is a German actress. She began acting at the age of 16, and has since co-starred in the 1999 production Der Schandfleck, for which she was awarded the Bayerischer Fernsehpreis Sonderpreis in 2000.
She went on to appear in a variety of leading and supporting roles in German and Austrian television, films, dramas and European cinema. In 2004 her leading performance in Grüße aus Kaschmir took her to greater prominence within Germany and France.
She has twice won Best Actress award at the Adolf-Grimme-Preis, in 2005 and 2008, and has won Best Actress at the Bayerischer Fernsehpreis (aka Bavarian TV Awards) in 2000. In 2010, she starred in The Coming Days alongside Daniel Brühl and earned the nomination for Best Leading Actress at the German Film Awards in 2011.
Heerwagen has one brother, Philipp Heerwagen, born in 1983, who is a professional soccer player for the German football team FC Ingolstadt.
Career
Early work
After being cast in a short-film in 1992, Heerwagen was spotted by Portuguese film director Miguel Alexandre whilst at the Bavaria Film Studios. Alexandre approached Heerwagen, then aged sixteen, and asked her to play the lead role in his new film for German television. Heerwagen accepted and starred in the title role of her debut film Nana (1995) for ARD and HFF Munich. After several roles in television films she then went on to star in the TV film Die Aubergers (1997) and in its follow up television series. She also studied acting techniques and drama at Film Breakthrough in Munich.
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