Franka Potente is a German film actress, screenwriter and director. She began her film career in 1995 with the film After Five in the Jungle. Potente became famous for the main role in the film "Run Lola Run".
In the creative biography of Potente, there are more than sixty roles in television and film projects. Franca also dabbled in the role of screenwriter and director, filming the short comedy-fiction film "Dig the Belladonna".
Biography facts
The girl was born in the summer of 1974 in the German city of Dulmen. Her father was a teacher and her mother was a paramedic. Franca's ancestors were from Sicily. Great-great-grandfather moved to Germany in his youth, started working as a tiler, then got married and stayed in the country forever.
Franca was the eldest child in the family. She has a younger brother who was a very sick child from birth. All the parents' attention was directed to him, so the girl was very jealous and offended by her mother, father and brother himself.
In order for her parents to pay attention to her, Franka constantly arranged various performances at home and behaved like a clown, not realizing that her younger brother needed constant care. Only as she got older, Franka was able to forgive her relatives, because they loved her no less than their son.
Her passion for creativity did not stop with the girl during her years of study at the gymnasium. She began attending a theater studio, participated in various performances and performances. And she soon realized that she wanted to become a real actress.
Franca also graduated from a music school with a degree in violin and flute. She perfectly speaks three languages: German, English and French. Another of her hobbies is fencing.
After completing her primary education, Franka continued her studies at the Otto Falckenberg School, a theater school located in Munich. She then went to New York, where she enrolled at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institut.
Film career
Frank got her first film role while still studying at the institute. The history leading up to this event was very unusual. Sitting in the bar, the girl noticed that one woman constantly looks at her in a strange way. As Franca was about to leave, the woman approached her and asked if she could describe herself in literally two or three words.
In the end, it turned out that this "strange" woman was a casting agent and was looking for a candidate for the lead role in the movie "After Five in the Jungle." The girl's appearance and demeanor attracted her attention. As a result, Franca got the opportunity to star in her first film.
The film received high marks from viewers and film critics. Franka won a film award for the best debut of the year in Germany. After that, the young actress began to be invited to new projects.
Potente is best known for her role as Lola in Tom Tykwer's film Run Lola Run. After the release of the picture on the screens, Frank became practically a symbol of the new cinematic wave of the late 1990s.
The film was a huge success with the audience and won the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival. The film was also nominated for awards: British Academy, European Film Academy and Venice Film Festival. In total, the film has received more than twenty different awards.
In the further career of the actress, there were many interesting roles. It is worth noting her work in the films: "Cocaine", "The Bourne Identity", "The Bourne Supremacy", "Anatomy 2", "Eyes of the Street", "The Conjuring 2", "Black Matter", "Taboo", "House Doctor", "Muse of Death".
Personal life
On the set of the House Doctor project, Franca met actor Derek Richardson. Young people met for a long time. But only in 2012, after the birth of their first daughter Polly, they formalized their relationship and became husband and wife.
Today the couple lives in Berlin and has two children. The second daughter, Georgie, was born in 2013.
