Barbara Sukowa

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1950-02-02 (75 years old)

Place of Birth

Bremen, Germany

Barbara Sukowa

Biography

Barbara Sukowa (born 2 February 1950) is a German theatre and film actress. She is known for her work with directors Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Margarethe von Trotta. She won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for the film Rosa Luxemburg (1986). Her other film appearances include Lola (1981), Europa (1990), M. Butterfly (1993), and Hannah Arendt (2012). Description above from the Wikipedia article Barbara Sukowa, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting

1993

M. Butterfly

as Jeanne Gallimard

1991

Voyager

as Hannah

1981

Lola

as Lola

2014

Salomea's Nose

as Salomea (voice)

1987

The Sicilian

as Camilla, Duchess of Crotone

1991

Europa

as Katharina Hartmann

2003

1995

Johnny Mnemonic

as Anna Kalmann

2023

Air

as Kathy Dassler

1981

2020

Granny Nanny

as Philippa

1986

Rosa Luxemburg

as Rosa Luxemburg

2022

White Noise

as Sister Hermann Marie

2011

Nacht ohne Morgen

as Katharina

2012

Hannah Arendt

as Hannah Arendt

1998

The Port of Last Resort

as Annie Witting (voice)

1997

Office Killer

as Virginia Wingate

2014

The Sky is Blue

as Marquez

1978

Heinrich Heine

as Amalie Friedländer

1977

Women in New York

as Crystal Allen

2008

1990

1999

Nightworld: Lost Souls

as Sheila Robinson

2004

The Other Woman

as Vera Glaubitz

2015

The Misplaced World

as Caterina Fabiani / Evelyn Kromberger

1987

Days to Remember

as Katharina

1997

1983

2000

Urbania

as Clara - The Married Woman

1983

Equator

as Adele

2016

1999

The Lady in Question

as Rachel Singer

1999

The Third Miracle

as Helen O’Regan

1982

Deadly Game

as Daniela Mathiesen

2017

Atomic Blonde

as Coroner

1999

Cradle Will Rock

as Sophie Silvano

2016

2019

Gloria Bell

as Melinda

2019

Native Son

as Peggy

2020

Two of Us

as Nina Dorn

2022

Dalíland

as Gala

2025

Leibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting

as Kurfürstin Sophie von Hannover

2024

Production

2005

Transamerica

as Thanks

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