Katharina Thalbach
Carrying on the artistic ambitions of her family--her father was a Swiss film director and her mother an actress--Katharina Thalbach also took up acting, and to date has appeared opposite the likes of Meryl Streep, Stellan Skarsgård, and other renowned performers. She started out in German television during the '60s, which led to film roles throughout the subsequent decade, including Volker Schlöndorff's international success "The Tin Drum." For the 1979 film about a stunted youth living in 1930s Germany, she landed the part of Maria Matzerath, the main character's first mistress; unfortunately, some of the attention paid to her was likely related to simulated love scenes with actor David Bennent, then 11 years old. Although the movie was banned as obscene in certain places, this did not hurt Thalbach's career long-term. Indeed, one of her subsequent appearances was in the 1982 American film "Sophie's Choice" as Wanda, a Nazi Resistance fighter who befriends the protagonist, played by Streep. Plenty of German movie roles followed over the next few decades, including the lead female role in the drama "Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg," about real-life Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who helped save thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Nazis. In 2006, she re-teamed with Schlöndorff for "Strike," in which she played a Polish labor worker who took part in various important events across three decades. Thalbach also did voice work for the German translation of Disney's 2002 animated feature "Lilo and Stitch."
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Filmography
Movies
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School of Magical Animals | Schildkröte Henrietta (Voice) | - | 2021 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I've Never Been to New York | Maria Wartberg (Character) | - | 2019 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ice Princess Lily | Nessaja (Voice) | - | 2018 |
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100 Things | Oma Konaske (Character) | - | 2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hanni & Nanni: Mehr als beste Freunde | Lehrerin (Character) | - | 2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bibi & Tina: Girls Versus Boys | Köchin (Character) | - | 2016 |
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Emerald Green | Großtante Maddy (Character) | - | 2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Night Ride | Taxifunkerin (Character) | - | 2015 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The pasta detectives 2 | Ellie Wandbeck (Character) | - | 2015 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I'm Off Then | Omma Bertha (Character) | - | 2015 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Raven the Little Rascal: The Big Race | Frau Dachs (Voice) | - | 2015 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Head Full of Honey | Vivian (Character) | - | 2014 |
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Ruby Red | Großtante Maddy (Character) | - | 2013 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Der Minister | Angela Murkel (Character) | - | 2013 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hanni & Nanni III | Mademoiselle Bertoux (Character) | - | 2013 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Raven the Little Rascal | Frau Dachs (Voice) | - | 2012 |
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Moon Man | Moon Man (Voice) | - | 2012 |
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Measuring the World | Mutter Gauß (Character) | - | 2012 |
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Forgotten | Gabriela (Character) | - | 2012 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hanni and Nanni 2 | Mademoiselle Bertoux (Character) | - | 2012 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hanni and Nanni | Mademoiselle Bertoux (Character) | - | 2010 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Moon and Other Lovers | Hanna Lottner (Character) | - | 2008 |
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The Three Robbers | Wunderliche Tante (Voice) | - | 2007 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rumpelstiltskin | Rumpelstilzchen (Character) | - | 2007 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hands off Mississippi | Unknown (Character) | - | 2007 |
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Strike | Agnieszka Kowalska (Character) | $8.9K | 2006 |
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Offset | Frau Fischer (Character) | - | 2006 |
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Nicht alle waren Mörder | Oma Teuber (Character) | - | 2006 |
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Sun Alley | Mutter Ehrenreich (Character) | - | 2000 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Volcano | Mutter Schwalbe (Character) | - | 1999 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Solo for Clarinet | Louise Bethmann (Character) | - | 1998 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Back in Trouble | Frau Stankowski (Character) | - | 1997 |
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The Fearless Four | Die böse Erbin (Voice) | - | 1997 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Die furchtlosen Vier | Die böse Erbin (Voice) | - | 1997 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Love, Life & Death | Unknown (Character) | - | 1995 |
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Kaspar Hauser | Comtesse Hochberg (Character) | - | 1994 |
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Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg | Marja (Character) | - | 1990 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Welcome to Germany | Sofie (Character) | - | 1988 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Flight North | Unknown (Character) | - | 1986 |
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The Tin Drum | Maria Matzerath (Character) | $5.5K | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Winterspelt | Läthe Lenk (Character) | - | 1978 |
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The Second Awakening of Christa Klages | Lena Seidlhofer (Character) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lotte in Weimar | Unknown (Character) | - | 1975 |
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Miss Merkel | Angela Merkel (Character) | 2023-2024 |
86% | 37% | The Signal | Die Moonwatcherin (Character) | 2024 |