Heike Makatsch
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Makatsch was born in Düsseldorf, Germany, the daughter of former German national ice hockey team goaltender Rainer Makatsch. She spent several months in New Mexico in 1988 in an effort to improve her English, and later studied politics and sociology at the University of Düsseldorf for four semesters, which was followed by an apprenticeship as a dressmaker until 1994. Her television career started in 1993, when she was hired by music channel VIVA, hosting shows such as Interaktiv and Heikes Hausbesuche; two years later, on August 13 1995, she became the host of the German chart show BRAVO TV, aired by RTL II, a position she kept until summer 1996. In 1997 she started hosting her own weekly, late night show titled Heike Makatsch Show. However, due to bad ratings, it was cancelled after only eight episodes. Makatsch first appeared in a movie in 1996, when she starred in Detlev Buck's Männerpension (English: "Jailbirds"); she received the Bavarian Film Award as most talented young actor for her performance. Since then, she has appeared in several German and English language productions.
Known for
Credits
Love Actually (2003)
as Mia
Resident Evil (2002)
as Lisa
The Book Thief (2013)
as Liesel's mother
A Sound of Thunder (2005)
as Alicia Wallenbeck
Schade um das schöne Geld (2008)
as Mirabel Blinker
Love Your Female Neighbor! (1998)
as Isolde
Naked (2002)
as Emilia
Kroos (2019)
as Self
Komplizinnen - Vernunft ist keine Lösung (2027)
Actor
Hui Buh: The Castle Ghost (2006)
as Leonora Gräfin zu Etepetete
Männer und andere Katastrophen (1999)
as Judith Kern
Wir machen durch bis morgen früh (2014)
as Melanie Struttmann
The Door (2009)
as Gia
Tom Sawyer (2011)
as Tante Polly
Longitude (2000)
as Queen Charlotte
Bibi Blocksberg - Das große Hexentreffen (2025)
as Servera
No Songs of Love (2005)
as Ellen
Anatomy 2 (2003)
as Viktoria
Slava der Hund (2024)
as Laura
Late Night Shopping (2001)
as Madeline
Familie auf Bestellung (2004)
as Eva
Schwesterherz (2007)
as Anna
About a Girl (2015)
as Sabine
Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution (2007)
as Frau Unger
Das Wunder von Lengede (2003)
as Renate Reger
Obsession (1997)
as Miriam Auerbach
Tails You Win, Heads You Lose (1999)
as Maja
Aimée & Jaguar (1999)
as Klärchen
God, You’re Such a Prick (2020)
as Eva Pape
Am I Beautiful? (1998)
as Vera
Akiko, the Flying Monkey (2025)
as Police Chief
The Adventures of Huck Finn (2012)
as Tante Polly
Back on Track (2013)
as Birgit Averhoff
Benjamin the Elephant (2019)
as Zora Zack
Tara Road (2005)
as Bernadette
Hilde (2009)
as Hildegard Knef
Nachts im Park (2002)
as Katharina Lumis
Everything is Love (2014)
as Clara
Sechzehneichen (2012)
as Laura Eichhorn
Das Gelbe vom Ei (1999)
as Floris Blinker
A Goddamn Job (2001)
as Katinka Sirena
The Announcement (2000)
as Rumour
The Most Beautiful Girl in the World (2018)
as Frau Reimann
Homecoming (2012)
as Katarina Endriss
Margarete Steiff (2005)
as Margarete Steiff
Teenosaurus Rex (2017)
as Sara Wenger
Dr. Hope (2009)
as Hope Bridges Adams
I've Never Been to New York (2019)
as Lisa Wartberg
Zero (2021)
as Cynthia Bonsant
9 Days Awake (2020)
as Liane Stehfest
Strange Daughter (2017)
as Hannah
The Pasta Detectives 3 (2016)
as Kellnerin
Manhunt: Bloody Tango (2019)
as Gisela Tezloff
Twice New Life (2016)
as Ännie Borchert
Speechless (2016)
as mother
Männerpension (1996)
as Maren Krummsieg
Gripsholm (2000)
as Prinzessin
Almost Heaven - Ein Cowgirl auf Jamaika (2005)
as Helen Schuster