Franka Potente

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Image:Franka Potente.jpg Franka Potente (born July 22, 1974 in Dülmen, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German actress. She lives in Berlin.

The older of two children, her father was a teacher and her mother was a medical assistant. She was a foreign exchange student at age 17 in Texas. Spotted by a casting agent at the age of 19, she studied at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in New York. After a notable debut in It's a Jungle Out There and two unconventional movies by Tom Tykwer including the international hit, Lola rennt (Run Lola Run), Potente has starred in several Hollywood movies, most prominently The Bourne Identity and The Bourne Supremacy, alongside Matt Damon. She dated US actor Elijah Wood.

Her family name derives from her great-great-grandfather, who was from Sicily.

Filmography

• Nach fünf im Urwald; English title (among others): It's a Jungle Out There (1996, Hans-Christian Schmid)
• Run Lola Run (original title: Lola rennt) (1998, Tom Tykwer)
• Anatomy, original title: Anatomie (2000, Stefan Ruzowitzky)
• The Princess and the Warrior; original title: Der Krieger und die Kaiserin (2000, Tom Tykwer)
• Blow (2001, Ted Demme)
• The Bourne Identity (2002, Doug Liman)
• Anatomy 2, original title: Anatomie 2 (2003, Stefan Ruzowitzky)
• Blueprint, (2003, Rolf Schübel)
• The Bourne Supremacy, (2004, Paul Greengrass)
• Creep, (2004, Christopher Smith)
• Guerrilla (2007)

External links

• {{{2|{{{name|Franka Potente}}}}}} at The Internet Movie Database

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