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Karoline Herfurth
German actress (born 1984) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Karoline Herfurth (German: [kaʁoˈliːnə ˈhɛʁfʊʁt] ⓘ; born 22 May 1984) is a German actress.
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Life and career
Herfurth was born in East Berlin, East Germany, the daughter of a psychologist mother and a geriatric nurse practitioner father. Her parents divorced when she was two years old. She grew up in Berlin with a brother and five half-brothers and -sisters.[1] She went to a Waldorf school in Berlin and graduated from Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts.[2] She learned to play the recorder and studied sociology and political sciences.[3]
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Career
Herfurth had her first role in a TV-series at age ten, and her first part in a movie in 2000, when she was fifteen. She has held several parts as a teenager in German movies such as Mädchen, Mädchen (2001) and Big Girls don't cry (2002), and leading-parts both in TV productions and independent German films. For her part as Lilli Richter in Caroline Link's film A Year ago in Winter, she received the Bavarian Film-Award for best young actress in 2009.[4]
Herfurth gave her international debut in 2006 in Perfume: The Story of a Murderer. In this adaptation of Patrick Süskind's best-selling novel Das Parfum she played the "Plum Girl", the first victim of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille. In 2008, she co-starred with Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes in the Academy-Award-Best-Picture-nominee The Reader.[5]
She directed her first feature-length film SMS für Dich in 2016.
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Personal life
Herfurth has spoken out opposing the right-wing Pegida movement in Germany.[6]
Filmography
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