Heike Makatsch
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.
Acting
Movie
Love Actually
as Mia
2003
Movie
Resident Evil
as Lisa
2002
Movie
The Book Thief
as Liesel's mother
2013
Movie
A Sound of Thunder
as Alicia Wallenbeck
2005
Movie
Hui Buh: The Castle Ghost
as Leonora Gräfin zu Etepetete
2006
Movie
The Door
as Gia
2009
Movie
The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
as Frau Reimann
2018
TV
Scene of the Crime
as Ellen Berlinger
1970
Movie
Anatomy 2
as Viktoria
2003
Movie
Aimée & Jaguar
as Klärchen
1999
Movie
Back on Track
as Birgit Averhoff
2013
Movie
Tom Sawyer
as Tante Polly
2011
Movie
God, You’re Such a Prick
as Eva Pape
2020
Movie
Late Night Shopping
as Madeline
2001
Movie
About a Girl
as Sabine
2015
Movie
Teenosaurus Rex
as Sara Wenger
2017
Movie
Naked
as Emilia
2002
Movie
Tara Road
as Bernadette
2005
Movie
Longitude
as Queen Charlotte
2000
Movie
I've Never Been to New York
as Lisa Wartberg
2019
TV
Where's Wanda?
as Carlotta Klatt
2024
Movie
Kroos
as Self
2019
Movie
Everything is Love
as Clara
2014
Movie
Männerpension
as Maren Krummsieg
1996
