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
Love Your Female Neighbor! (1998)
as Isolde
Hui Buh: The Castle Ghost (2006)
as Leonora Gräfin zu Etepetete
Longitude (2000)
as Queen Charlotte
Tom Sawyer (2011)
as Tante Polly
The Door (2009)
as Gia
Naked (2002)
as Emilia
Anatomy 2 (2003)
as Viktoria
Back on Track (2013)
as Birgit Averhoff
Tara Road (2005)
as Bernadette
Bibi Blocksberg - Das große Hexentreffen (2025)
as Servera
God, You’re Such a Prick (2020)
as Eva Pape
Kroos (2019)
as Self
Late Night Shopping (2001)
as Madeline
Am I Beautiful? (1998)
as Vera
Aimée & Jaguar (1999)
as Klärchen
Komplizinnen - Vernunft ist keine Lösung (2027)
Actor
Akiko, the Flying Monkey (2025)
as Police Chief
Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution (2007)
as Frau Unger
Homecoming (2012)
as Katarina Endriss
The Most Beautiful Girl in the World (2018)
as Frau Reimann
Wir machen durch bis morgen früh (2014)
as Melanie Struttmann
The Adventures of Huck Finn (2012)
as Tante Polly
Obsession (1997)
as Miriam Auerbach
The Pasta Detectives 3 (2016)
as Kellnerin
Schwesterherz (2007)
as Anna
The Announcement (2000)
as Rumour
Teenosaurus Rex (2017)
as Sara Wenger
Benjamin the Elephant (2019)
as Zora Zack
Hilde (2009)
as Hildegard Knef
Männer und andere Katastrophen (1999)
as Judith Kern
About a Girl (2015)
as Sabine
Schade um das schöne Geld (2008)
as Mirabel Blinker
9 Days Awake (2020)
as Liane Stehfest
Familie auf Bestellung (2004)
as Eva
I've Never Been to New York (2019)
as Lisa Wartberg
Speechless (2016)
as mother
No Songs of Love (2005)
as Ellen
Everything is Love (2014)
as Clara
Slava der Hund (2024)
as Laura
Nachts im Park (2002)
as Katharina Lumis
Das Wunder von Lengede (2003)
as Renate Reger
Tails You Win, Heads You Lose (1999)
as Maja
Sechzehneichen (2012)
as Laura Eichhorn
A Goddamn Job (2001)
as Katinka Sirena
Margarete Steiff (2005)
as Margarete Steiff
Gripsholm (2000)
as Prinzessin
Männerpension (1996)
as Maren Krummsieg
Dr. Hope (2009)
as Hope Bridges Adams
Das Gelbe vom Ei (1999)
as Floris Blinker
Zero (2021)
as Cynthia Bonsant
Almost Heaven - Ein Cowgirl auf Jamaika (2005)
as Helen Schuster
Manhunt: Bloody Tango (2019)
as Gisela Tezloff
Strange Daughter (2017)
as Hannah
Twice New Life (2016)
as Ännie Borchert