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Alexandra Maria Lara

Alexandra Maria Lara ( née Plătăreanu ; 12 November 1978) [ 1 ] is a Romanian-German actress, best known internationally for her roles in the films Downfall (2004), Control (200...

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Alexandra Maria Lara (néePlătăreanu; 12 November 1978)[1] is a Romanian-German actress, best known internationally for her roles in the films Downfall (2004), Control (2007), Youth Without Youth (2007), The Reader (2008), Rush (2013), and Geostorm (2017).[2] From 2022 to 2025, she served as co-president of the Deutsche Filmakademie.[3]

Early life

Born in Bucharest, Lara is the only child of actor Valentin Plătăreanu and his wife, Doina. Her father was a successful actor and director in Romania, directing many plays such as Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare and Hernani by Victor Hugo.

In 1983, her family emigrated to West Germany from their home in Bucharest, Romania. Although the family had originally planned to emigrate to Canada, they settled in Freiburg im Breisgau, before eventually moving to West Berlin. She became fluent in German.

Career

By sixteen Lara was playing lead roles in various television dramas; since then she has appeared in films, including as Traudl Junge, Adolf Hitler's secretary, in the Academy Award-nominated 2004 film Downfall; following this Francis Ford Coppola wrote her a letter and gave her a leading role in Youth Without Youth (2007).

In 2007 Lara appeared as Belgian journalist Annik Honoré in the biopic Control. In 2008 she served as a member of the Cannes Film Festival jury. She has also appeared in several French productions, including Napoléon and L'Affaire Farewell. She appeared in The Reader and Der Baader Meinhof Komplex, which were both nominated for the 81st Academy Awards for best picture and best foreign language film respectively.

In 2018 Lara starred with her husband, Sam Riley, in Happy New Year, Colin Burstead by Ben Wheatley, playing his German girlfriend.[4]

Alongside Florian Gallenberger, Lara served as president of the Deutsche Filmakademie from 2022 to 2025.[3][5]

Personal life

Lara with husband Sam Riley at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival on 20 February 2020

In August 2009 Lara married English actor Sam Riley, with whom she had acted in the films Control and Suite Française.[6] In January 2014 she gave birth to their first child, a boy.[7][8] They played a couple on screen in Ben Wheatley's drama Happy New Year, Colin Burstead.

Filmography

Television

Referencias

  1. ↑ "Alexandra Maria Lara BIO" . imaginethefilm.org . Consultado el 29 de septiembre de 2013 .
  2. ↑ Alexandra Maria Lara en IMDb
  3. ^ Bert Rebhandl (21 de junio de 2022), Deutsche Filmakademie: Es ist schlimmer, als man sieht Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung .
  4. ↑ "Feliz Año Nuevo, Colin Burstead (2018) - IMDb" .
  5. ↑ Wolfgang Höbel (24 de abril de 2025), Neue Leitung der Deutschen Filmakademie: »Den Franzosen fällt es leichter als den Deutschen, die eigene Kultur zu hypen« Der Spiegel .
  6. ↑ "Sam Riley está casado con Alexandra Maria Lara" . Zimbio. Archivado del original el 11 de octubre de 2012. Consultado el 20 de abril de 2011 .
  7. ↑ "La esposa de Sam Riley está embarazada | Espectáculos | Noticias | Daily Express" . Express.co.uk. 8 de septiembre de 2013. Consultado el 16 de junio de 2014 .
  8. ↑ "Alexandra María Lara: ¡Baby-Geschlecht bekannt!" . Promiflash.de. 6 de enero de 2014 . Consultado el 16 de junio de 2014 .
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