Franka Potente
Franka Potente played roles in several German films before she gained worldwide recognition for her title role in
Tom Tykwer's Run Lola Run, which won an Audience Award at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival and the Best Foreign Film award at the Independent Spirit Awards in 2000. She took on the role of Marie Helena Kreutz opposite
Matt Damon in Universal's The Bourne Identity in 2002. During that year, Potente starred with
Elijah Wood and
Mandy Moore in Try Seventeen. Potente was seen in
Ted Demme's Blow, opposite
Johnny Depp and
Penelope Cruz, and she also starred in the romantic thriller The Princess and the Warrior, which re-teamed her with writer/director Tykwer in the story of two outlaw lovers. In addition, Potente recently finished shooting Christopher Smith's Creep and has signed on to play a revolutionary in Che, a biopic about Che Guevara, which will team her up with Benicio Del Toro,
Benjamin Bratt and
Ryan Gosling.
Potente, who was born in Münster, Germany, moved to Munich in 1974 to study drama at the Otto Falkenberg School and also studied at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in New York.
Note: This profile was written in or before
2004.
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Franka Potente Facts
Selected Filmography
| The Conjuring 2 |
| The Bourne Identity |
| The Bourne Supremacy |
| The Bourne Ultimatum |
| Blow |
| The Bourne Classified Collection |
| Shanghai |
| Run Lola Run |
| Conjuring 2 |
| The Bourne Ultimate Collection |
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