Alexandra Schalaudek

German actress Alexandra Schalaudek was born in 1975 in Munich but grew up in Hamburg. She made her acting debut at the tender age of 14 in 1990's "Land In Sight," in which she made a good impression as a teenage girl caught in a love triangle while on vacation. She harbored ambitions to become a cinematographer after leaving school, but instead decided to pursue acting as a career after being cast in the German soap opera "Forbidden Love" in 1995. It turned out to be a good decision as she has worked steadily ever since, becoming a familiar face on German TV in numerous long-running shows and TV movies, including several of the small-screen adaptations of Rosamunde Pilcher novels, which have long been extremely popular with German viewers. She also had a recurring role on the short-lived family drama "Aus Gutem Hause" in 2006. Although her film appearances have not been quite so frequent she did show up in the 2001 comedy "Lammbock," which also starred "Run Lola Run"'s Moritz Bleibtreu. Schalaudek's only English-language feature is "You're Dead," a 1999 crime thriller starring John Hurt and Rhys Ifans, in which she played the intriguingly titled "Hostage Peaches."