Jeanette Arndt

Though most of German actress Jeanette Arndt's screen work has been for television, she has also appeared in feature films, as well as in several high-profile theater productions over the years, frequently working with her former husband, actor/director Volker Lechtenbrink. She made her professional debut in the 1988 family television drama "Barfu? ins Bett" and appeared in the seven-part drama "Spreewald Stories" a year later. But it was her role in the 1992 feature film "Silent Country," co-starring Thorsten Merten as a small town theater director trying to keep his floundering production of "Waiting for Godot" going while East and West Germany head toward reunification, in which Arndt made a genuine impact. Two years later she co-starred as the female lead in the television movie "My Unknown Husband," a romantic comedy, and startled audiences in the 1996 thriller "Forever and Ever," playing a woman who gives up her baby for adoption, but years later intrudes on the foster family to take her daughter back. Arndt has also appeared as continuing character Carol Francke in several episodes of the popular crime series "Abschnitt 40," an ensemble cop drama set in Berlin. She made appearances on the show between 2003 and 2005, and turned up again briefly in 2006.