Actress Heike Makatch: roles, films, biography, photos

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Heike Makatsch is a German actress, screenwriter and novelist. Filmed mostly in his home country. The track record of a native of the city of Dusseldorf includes 70 cinematic works. She played her first film role in 1996, when she starred in the film "Men's Boarding House". In 2017, she introduced the audience to her character Sarah in the feature film "Puberty".

Genres and motion pictures

Heike Makatsch starred in such well-known full-length projects as "Love Actually", "Longitude", "The Book Thief". In the blockbuster "Resident Evil" in 2002, she played Lisa.

Films with Heike Makatch represent the following movie genres:

• Biography: "Hilda", "Margarethe Steiff".
• Military: "Aimee and the Jaguar", "The Book Thief".
• Documentary: "On the Night of…".
• History: "Longitude".
• Short: "Weekend with Eve".
• Melodrama:"Gripsholm", "It's all love".
• Cartoon: Ghost in Law.
• Adventure: "Tom Sawyer", "The Thunder Came"
• Action: "At night in the park".
• Detective: "Door", "Road to Santiago".
• Drama: "About a Girl", "Nudes", "Obsession", "Am I Beautiful?"
• Comedy: "The Man's Boarding House", "His Last Run", "God's Work", "The Neighbor".
• Crime: "Crime Scene".
• Music: "Almost heaven", "Don't sing love to me".

Connections

Heike Makatch worked alongside such popular actors as Hugh Grant, Geoffrey Rush, Juliana Koehler, Milla Jovovich, Mudd Mikkelsen, Michelle Rodriguez, Edward Burns, Til Schweiger and others.

In the films "Hilda", "About a Girl", "Nude", "Obsession", "Margereta Steiff" played the main characters.

Biography

Photo by Heike Macatch can be seen in the article. She was born on August 13, 1971 in the German city of Düsseldorf. Her father is a professional athlete, the goalkeeper of the German hockey team. After school, she entered the University of Düsseldorf at the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology. However, she studied here for only a few semesters, after which she decided to become a dressmaker.

In 1993, Heike Makatsch accepted an offer to leadTV show on the popular music channel VIVA. Then she worked on the television channel MTV.

In 1996 she became a partner of actor Til Schweiger in the film "Men's Boarding House". For her work in this project, she was named the best young actress at the Bavarian Film Awards.

Facts

Did you know that:

1. The actress had a romantic relationship with British movie star Daniel Craig. Daniel and Heike met in 1997 while filming the movie Obsession together. Their relationship ended in 2005.
2. Heike Makatsch's first book is based on memories of working in the film project Don't Sing Me About Love.
3. German actress because of pregnancy at first refused to act in the film "Hilda". However, due to circumstances, the shooting of this picture was postponed, which contributed to the fact that Heike Makatsch still played the main character in it.
4. In 2007, the actress gave birth to a girl from Max Martin Schroeder, whom she met in 2005. In 2009, the couple had another daughter. In 2015, the third daughter, Heike Macatch, was born. By that time, she had already broken up with her chosen one.

Firsthand

Here is information about Heike Makatch that she decided to share with reporters.

The actress believes that Hildegard Knef, whom she portrayed in the biographical drama "Hilda", was a very strong woman with ambivalent qualities. To play this legendary artist, she had to take singing lessons for quite a long time.

Heike Makatsch believes that women in director's chairs often make complex and rich films that "take the viewer on a difficult journey."

According to the actress, even in the 21st century, women are still under the dictates of the strong half of humanity. She does not know who is to blame for this: the men who impose their conditions on them, or the women themselves, accustomed to living according to the old canons.