She was then spotted by a casting agent and appeared in the film Nach Fünf im Urwald ( After Five in the Forest Primeval), directed by her then-boyfriend, Hans Christian Schmid.

Potente took acting jobs outside school time and appeared in her first movie in the 1995 student film Aufbruch. Career 1990s Īfter finishing high school in Germany, Potente enrolled at the Otto Falckenberg School of Performing Arts in Munich. When she was 17 years old, Potente spent a few months as an exchange student in Humble, a suburb of Houston, Texas. Her Italian surname stems from her great-grandfather, a Sicilian slater who migrated to Germany during the 19th century. Her mother, Hildegard, is a medical assistant, and her father, Dieter Potente, is a teacher. The elder of two children, Potente was born in Münster, West Germany, and raised in nearby Dülmen. She also played recurring roles in the second seasons of American Horror Story (2012) and The Bridge (2014). Potente has starred in the television series Copper (2012–2013), Taboo (2017) and currently, Claws. Her other notable films include Anatomy (2000), The Princess and the Warrior (2000), Creep (2004), Romulus, My Father (2007), Eichmann (2007), and Muse (2017).

She portrayed communist revolutionary Tamara Bunke in Che (2008), and psychologist Anita Gregory in The Conjuring 2 (2016). She received further critical acclaim and a Bavarian Television Award nomination for her performance in the television film Opernball (also 1998).Īfter 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). Her breakthrough came in 1998, when she portrayed the titular role in the acclaimed action thriller Run Lola Run, for which she won a BAMBI Award for Best 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. Franka Potente ( German: ( listen) born 22 July 1974) is a German actress.

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