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Monica Bleibtreu

Highest Rated: 77% Four Minutes (2006)

Lowest Rated: 68% Tattoo (2002)

Birthday: May 4, 1944

Birthplace: Vienna, Austria

One of the leading lights of the German cinema, Monica Bleibtreu was destined for the stage from an early age. The granddaughter of actress Hedwig Bleibtreu, most famous for her role in "The Third Man," Monica's father was also a theater director, resulting in her starting performance at a very young age. She studied at Vienna's Max-Reinhardt-Seminar for acting, and began her professional career in 1966. She took a number of TV roles before coming to the big screen in 1979's "Ludwig: Requiem for a Virgin King," a filmed adaptation of the Wagner opera. She was incredibly prolific throughout the 80s and 90s, appearing in multiple projects every year. Later in her life, she began passing her skills along to the next generation of actors as a professor in residence at the Hamburg School of Music and Theater. Her best-known role was in Tom Twyker's "Run Lola Run," where she co-starred with her son Moritz Bleibtreu. The last years of her life were spent in a long battle with cancer, which eventually claimed her life in 2009. Here last released film was Fatih Akin's comedy "Soul Kitchen." She was so well-respected in Germany that the country's president Horst Koehler issued a memorial statement at her funeral.

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Highest rated movies

77% 86% Four Minutes
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73% 74% Soul Kitchen
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71% 40% The Farewell
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68% 60% Tattoo
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Marlene
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86% Max Minsky and Me
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Bibi Blocksberg & the Secret of the Blue Owls
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Hilde
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My Mother, My Bride and I
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Bibi Blocksberg and the Secret of the Blue Owls
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Filmography

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73% 74% Soul Kitchen Nadines Großmutter (Character) $274.4K 2009
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hilde Unknown (Character) - 2009
No Score Yet 86% Hilde Unknown (Character) - 2009
No Score Yet 32% The Murder Farm Traudl Krieger (Character) - 2009
No Score Yet No Score Yet My Mother, My Bride and I Frau Kobarek (Character) - 2008
No Score Yet 86% Max Minsky and Me Risa Ginsberg (Character) - 2007
No Score Yet 74% The Heart Is a Dark Forest Mietzi (Character) - 2007
77% 86% Four Minutes Traude Krüger (Character) - 2006
No Score Yet No Score Yet Bibi Blocksberg and the Secret of the Blue Owls Walpurgia (Character) - 2004
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Wish Tree Tante Lenka (Character) - 2004
No Score Yet No Score Yet Bibi Blocksberg & the Secret of the Blue Owls Walpurgia (Character) - 2002
68% 60% Tattoo Kommissarin Roth (Character) - 2002
71% 40% The Farewell Helene Weigel (Character) $11.0K 2000
No Score Yet No Score Yet Marlene Unknown (Character) - 2000
No Score Yet 9% Midnight Cop Self - 1989
No Score Yet No Score Yet Der Beginn aller Schrecken ist Liebe Gisela (Character) - 1984