Johanna Wokalek

Johanna Wokalek

Born: March 3, 1975
in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Johanna Wokalek (born March 3, 1975) is a German stage and film actress. A student of Klaus Maria Brandauer, she received critical recognition and three newcomer awards for her performance in the play Rose Bernd. Wokalek is best known for her award-winning appearances in the German films Hierankl, Barfuss, and The Baader Meinhof Complex. She received the Bambi award for her portrayal of the Red Army Faction member Gudrun Ensslin in 2008. She played the lead role in the film Pope Joan in 2009.

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Sisi & I
Title: Sisi & I
Character: Countess Marie Festetics
Released: March 30, 2023
Type: Movie
After an elaborate application process, Empress Elisabeth of Austria hires Countess Irma as her new lady-in-waiting and takes her to her summer residence on Corfu. As the two women become closer there, this soon leads to tensions back in Vienna.
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Title: Liberame - Nach dem Sturm
Character: Caro Garbe
Released: July 30, 2022
Type: TV
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Beckenrand Sheriff
Title: Beckenrand Sheriff
Character: Trainerin der Wasserballmannschaft
Released: September 9, 2021
Type: Movie
A lifeguard tries by all means to keep his home, an open-air swimming pool, from being closed.
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Title: Spy City
Character: Ulrike Faber
Released: December 3, 2020
Type: TV
After a defector is murdered, British agent Fielding Scott is assigned to track down a mole in his own ranks in 1961 Berlin. His investigation leads him into a deadly web of crime, betrayal and paranoia. Who can Scott trust in the city of spies?
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Exit Plan
Title: Exit Plan
Character: Linda
Released: November 21, 2019
Type: Movie
Insurance broker Max's life is about one thing - keeping his walnut brain tumour in check. He eats properly, exercises and lives properly, but all of this self-consciousness makes him more and more depressed. When he realises that his beloved wife plans to leave him, he decides to take his own life.
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The German Lesson
Title: The German Lesson
Character: Ditte Nansen
Released: October 3, 2019
Type: Movie
In a small North German village a drama played out during and shortly after the Second World War about duty versus individual conscience and morality.
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Wuff
Title: Wuff
Character: Cécile
Released: October 25, 2018
Type: Movie
Romantic comedy about the love confusion of four girlfriends, whose lives are properly turned upside down by their four-legged friends. After being abandoned by her boyfriend, Ella adopts a half-breed called Bozer, who jumbled up her everyday life, but also makes her happy again. Cecile, on the other hand, is about to divorce, but the meek four-legged Simpson averts the worst and is also there for the children. Silke works as a dog trainer and knows very well about the animals, but she has her problems with her fellow human beings. She meets former footballer Olli. And also Lulu has met someone, but her acquaintance is a dog lover, while she has a preference for cats.
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Freedom
Title: Freedom
Character: Nora
Released: August 20, 2017
Type: Movie
Nora walks out on her husband Philip and their two children without a word of explanation. She’s driven by an irresistible force. She wants to be free.
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Title: Redemption Road
Character: Claire Kornitzer
Released: January 30, 2017
Type: TV
In the fall of 1938, two Jewish children from Berlin are sent to England by their parents to escape Nazi persecution.
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In Your Arms
Title: In Your Arms
Character: Julia
Released: January 25, 2015
Type: Movie
When Maria meets Niels for the first time, he comes across as an angry and unsympathetic young man. His chronic illness has been concentrated into a single wish—to go to a Swiss nursing home for euthanasia. But in order to get there, he needs a volunteer escort.
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The Pursuit of Unhappiness
Title: The Pursuit of Unhappiness
Character: Tiffany Blechschmid
Released: November 29, 2012
Type: Movie
Based on the best-selling psychology book by Paul Watzlawick, the film tells the story of Tiffany Blechschmid, a neurotic, moony, superstitious, contradictory and, no surprises here, single young woman in her late-twenties.
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The Coming Days
Title: The Coming Days
Character: Cecilia Kuper
Released: November 4, 2010
Type: Movie
Welcome to 2020: The European Union has collapsed following the fourth Gulf War and massive barricades keep illegal immigrants out of cities that are barely functioning. In the middle of this highly volatile environment is the family of Walter Kuper, an energy conglomerate executive. Walter’s daughter, Cecilia, has joined the Black Storm terrorist group. Her sister Laura must choose between motherhood and the man she loves; their brother Philip has been called into fight for Germany in a hopeless war to secure the last remaining oil fields. Starring leading actors Daniel Brühl, Johanna Wokalek and Jürgen Vogel, "The Days to Come" asks provocative questions about the current state of things as it depicts personal and political realities in a scarily believable near–future.
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Pope Joan
Title: Pope Joan
Character: Johanna von Ingelheim
Released: October 22, 2009
Type: Movie
A 9th century woman of English extraction born in the German city of Ingelheim disguises herself as a man and rises through the Vatican ranks.
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North Face
Title: North Face
Character: Luise Fellner
Released: October 23, 2008
Type: Movie
North Face tells the story of two German climbers Toni Kurz and Andreas Hinterstoisser and their attempt to scale the deadly North Face of the Eiger.
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The Baader Meinhof Complex
Title: The Baader Meinhof Complex
Character: Gudrun Ensslin
Released: September 25, 2008
Type: Movie
'Der Baader Meinhof Komplex' depicts the political turmoil in the period from 1967 to the bloody "Deutschen Herbst" in 1977. The movie approaches the events based on Stefan Aust's standard work on the Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF). The story centers on the leadership of the self named anti-fascist resistance to state violence: Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof and Gudrun Ensslin.
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Silent Resident
Title: Silent Resident
Character: Anna
Released: September 11, 2008
Type: Movie
At some point in the not-so-distant future, an unnamed European city has evolved into a bizarre dystopian metropolis, whose residents inhabit towering utopian high-rises and work, collectively, in a single compound.
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Don Carlos, Infant von Spanien
Title: Don Carlos, Infant von Spanien
Character: Elisabeth von Valois, seine Gemahlin
Released: May 14, 2005
Type: Movie
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Barefoot
Title: Barefoot
Character: Leila
Released: March 30, 2005
Type: Movie
A hedonistic bachelor - he is his rich family's black sheep - falls for a suicidal mental patient.
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Die Kirschkönigin
Title: Die Kirschkönigin
Character: Ruth von Roll
Released: November 5, 2004
Type: Movie
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Title: Die Kirschenkönigin
Character: Ruth
Released: November 5, 2004
Type: TV
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A Birthday to Remember
Title: A Birthday to Remember
Character: Lene
Released: July 1, 2003
Type: Movie
Lene Thurner is standing on a train platform in Munich. She has to decide: back to Berlin where she lives, or toward the south, where at the foot of the Alps her family lives on the lonely farm “Hierankl”.
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Emilia Galotti
Title: Emilia Galotti
Character: Emilia Galotti
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
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Das letzte Versteck
Title: Das letzte Versteck
Character: Eva
Released: October 17, 2002
Type: Movie
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Title: Alma - A Show biz ans Ende
Character: Alma 1
Released: July 8, 1999
Type: TV
A journey in the footsteps of this century's most famous artist's muse, the last femme fatale. Alma Mahler -Werfel was worshipped by an entire generation of artists: Gustav Mahler, Walter Gropius, Oskar Kokoschka and Franz Werfel.
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Aimée & Jaguar
Title: Aimée & Jaguar
Character: Ilse
Released: February 11, 1999
Type: Movie
In 1943, while the Allies are bombing Berlin and the Gestapo is purging the capital of Jews, a dangerous love affair blossoms between two women – one a Jewish member of the underground, the other an exemplar of Nazi motherhood.
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Title: Die Johannes B. Kerner Show
Character: Self
Released: January 22, 1998
Type: TV
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Rose Bernd
Title: Rose Bernd
Character: Rose
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
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Title: Bella Block
Character: Tanja / Saskia
Released: March 26, 1994
Type: TV
Bella Block is a long-running German detective television series starring Hannelore Hoger, first broadcast in 1994 on ZDF. In 2010 the 30th series was produced.
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Title: DAS!
Character: Self
Released: January 2, 1991
Type: TV
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Title: Bayerischer Filmpreis
Character: Self
Released: December 1, 1979
Type: TV
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Title: NDR Talk Show
Character: Self
Released: February 9, 1979
Type: TV
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Title: Polizeiruf 110
Character: Cris Blohm
Released: June 27, 1971
Type: TV
Polizeiruf 110 is a long-running German language detective television series. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the German Democratic Republic, and after the dissolution of Fernsehen der DDR the series was picked up by ARD. It was originally created as a counterpart to the West German series Tatort, and quickly became a public favorite.
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Title: Scene of the Crime
Character: Stefanie Wang
Released: November 29, 1970
Type: TV
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.
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Title: Scene of the Crime
Character: Anouk
Released: November 29, 1970
Type: TV
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.
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Title: Grimme-Preis-Verleihung
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1964
Type: TV
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Title: Deutscher Filmpreis
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1951
Type: TV
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Title: Bambi Awards
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1948
Type: TV
The Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented annually by Hubert Burda Media to recognize excellence in international media and television to personalities in the media, arts, culture, sports, and other fields "with vision and creativity who affected and inspired the German public that year", both domestic and foreign. First held in 1948, it is the oldest media award in Germany. The trophy is named after Felix Salten's book Bambi, A Life in the Woods and its statuettes are in the shape of the novel's titular fawn character. They were originally made of porcelain until 1958, when the organizers switched to using gold, with the casting done by the art casting workshop of Ernst Strassacker in Süßen.
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Object Permanence
Title: Object Permanence
Character: Frau Else
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Set in the near future, Brooke Brooks is a former supermodel who becomes a successful lifestyle mogul and is the first person to IPO herself. Having commodified herself, she's forced to confront her sense of self and the identity she's created.
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Milch ins Feuer
Title: Milch ins Feuer
Character: Marlies
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie