Barbara Sukowa

Q: Has Barbara Sukowa won any major awards?

Yes, Barbara Sukowa has received several awards, including the German Film Award for Best Actress and a nomination for the European Film Award.

Q: What was Barbara Sukowa's first film?

Barbara Sukowa made her film debut in the 1975 movie "The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum", which showcased her talent and led to further roles in cinema.

Q: What is Barbara Sukowa's acting style?

Barbara Sukowa is known for her intense and emotional performances, often portraying strong female characters with depth and complexity.

Q: What is Barbara Sukowa's estimated net worth?

Barbara Sukowa's estimated net worth is around $5 million, reflecting her successful career in film and theater.

Q: How many children does Barbara Sukowa have?

Barbara Sukowa has one daughter, whose name is not publicly disclosed.

Q: With whom did Barbara Sukowa collaborate frequently?

Barbara Sukowa frequently collaborated with director Wim Wenders, especially noted for her roles in his films such as "Wings of Desire".

Q: What is a defining characteristic of Barbara Sukowa's roles?

A defining characteristic of Barbara Sukowa's roles is her ability to portray complex emotional states, often in dramatic and thought-provoking narratives.

Known for

Atomic Blonde (2017)

IMDb 6.7 / 10

2017 / Action, Thriller / 115 min

An undercover MI6 agent is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and recover a missing...

Name

Barbara Sukowa

Height

5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)

Born

20 April 1950, Bremen, Germany

Spouses

Andreas Kleinert (1996–present)

Children

1 daughter, name not publicly known

Parents

Hans Sukowa, Maria Sukowa

Estimated Net Worth

$5 million

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2027	Movie ZOMA A grieving mother seeks answers over her son’s death, which she believes may be linked to AI therapy app ZOMA....	Unknown character	Not rated
2025	Movie Leibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting Out of her love for the great thinker Leibniz, Queen Charlotte commissions a portrait of him. During the portrait sessions,...	Kurfürstin Sophie von Hannover	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2025	Movie Klandestin WT Richard, an artist, now lives in Tangier. With his help, the young Moroccan Malik manages to reach Europe, the destination...	Mathilda	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2024	Movie Iris Berben - Ein persönliches Porträt She is the grande dame of German and international cinema, always a bit of a rocker chick, freedom-loving, adventurous and...	Unknown character	Not rated
2024	Movie Sukowa - Playful Like A Child “Acting is something anyone can do,” says Barbara Sukowa. “It’s completely intuitive and instinctual, much like a child dressing up.”...	Unknown character	Not rated
2024	Movie We're Not Done Yet Bettina and her son Alex face unexpected challenges during a weekend trip to Bettina’s beach house.	Bettina	Not rated
2024	Movie François Truffaut: My Life, a Screenplay At the end of his life, gravely ill, François Truffaut took refuge with his ex-wife Madeleine Morgenstern. She tried to...	Helen Hessel (voice)	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2024	TV Constellation When a fatal accident occurs on board the International Space Station, a lone astronaut makes the heroic journey back to...	Irena Lysenko	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2023	Movie Enkel für Fortgeschrittene	Philippa	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2023	Movie Air Discover the game-changing partnership between a then undiscovered Michael Jordan and Nike's fledgling basketball division which revolutionized the world of...	Kathy Dassler	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2023	TV The Night Agent Brought together by a midnight phone call, an FBI agent and a cybersecurity expert must unravel an ever-growing web of...	Jacqueline Laurent	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2023	TV The Swarm Across the globe, strange happenings, borne out of the oceans, are mystifying and imperiling the world’s population. A group of...	Prof. Katherina Lehmann	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2022	Movie White Noise Jack Gladney, professor of Hitler studies at The-College-on-the-Hill, husband to Babette, and father to four children/stepchildren, is torn asunder by...	Sister Hermann Marie	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2022	Movie Dalíland In 1973, a young gallery assistant goes on a wild adventure behind the scenes as he helps aging genius Salvador...	Gala	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2021	Movie Out of Exile: The Photography of Fred Stein The life of German photographer Fred Stein, whose street scenes from 1930s Paris and 1940s New York are well known....	Voice of Lilo Stein	Not rated
2020	Movie Two of Us Nina and Madeleine have been sharing their lives and the landing between their two apartments for decades. After more than...	Nina Dorn	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2020	Movie Granny Nanny Retirees Karin, Gerhard and Philippa are not in the mood for Nordic walking and seniors' courses at the university. When...	Philippa	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2019	TV Servant A Philadelphia couple are in mourning after an unspeakable tragedy creates a rift in their marriage and opens the door...	Aunt Josephine (voice)	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2019	TV Servant A Philadelphia couple are in mourning after an unspeakable tragedy creates a rift in their marriage and opens the door...	Aunt Josephine	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2019	Movie Rocca Changes the World 11-year-old Rocca, a clever, creative and brave girl who lives all by herself in defiance of her teachers and the...	Dodo	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2019	Movie Gloria Bell Gloria is a free-spirited divorcée who spends her days at a straight-laced office job and her nights on the dance...	Melinda	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2019	Movie Native Son A young black man named Bigger Thomas takes a job working for a highly influential Chicago family, a decision that...	Peggy	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2017	Movie Atomic Blonde An undercover MI6 agent is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent...	Coroner	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2016	Movie My Art A 65-year-old single artist living in New York City has a good life: a stable teaching job, successful friends, and...	Unknown character	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2016	Movie Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe Before Dawn charts the years of exile in the life of famous Jewish Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, his inner struggle...	Friderike Zweig	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2015	Movie The Misplaced World By chance Paul Kromberger discovers on the internet a photograph of the US opera diva Caterina Fabiani who is the...	Caterina Fabiani / Evelyn Kromberger	TMDB 5.4 / 10
2015	TV 12 Monkeys The provocative story of Cole, a time traveler from a decimated future in a high-stakes race against the clock. Utilizing...	Katarina Jones	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2014	Movie Salomea's Nose Salomea remembers the day her beloved brothers, Max and Karl, disfigured her and themselves for life. The Day of Tragedy,...	Salomea (voice)	Not rated
2014	Movie The Sky is Blue On vacation from Mexico, wealthy man-children Oscar and Arturo are causing havoc in New York City, partying like there’s no...	Marquez	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2012	Movie Hannah Arendt A portrait of the genius that shook the world with her discovery of “the banality of evil.” After she attends...	Hannah Arendt	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2011	Movie Nacht ohne Morgen At some point, a dead fox lies in the star lawyer's empty swimming pool. Later, much later, the former Attorney...	Katharina	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2009	Movie Vision - From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen Hildegard von Bingen was truly a woman ahead of her time. A visionary in every sense of the word, this...	Hildegard von Bingen	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2009	Movie Veronika Decides to Die After a frantic suicide attempt, Veronika awakens inside a mysterious mental asylum. Under the supervision of an unorthodox psychiatrist who...	Mom	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2008	Movie Die Entdeckung der Currywurst Spring 1945: the Allies are outside Hamburg. In front of a movie theater, Lena Brücker meets Hermann Bremer, a marine...	Lena Brücker	TMDB 3.6 / 10
2007	Movie Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz: A Mega Movie and Its Story A documentary about the making of the television mini-series by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, including interviewees with the principal actors.	Self	Not rated
2005	TV Thadeusz	self	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2005	Movie Romance & Cigarettes Ironworker Nick lives with his wife, Kitty, and three daughters. When he meets a significantly younger woman, Tula, he starts...	Gracie	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2004	Movie The Other Woman A German couple travels, shortly after reunification, to the Netherlands. Happiness does not last long. The wife receives a letter...	Vera Glaubitz	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2003	Movie A Birthday to Remember Lene Thurner is standing on a train platform in Munich. She has to decide: back to Berlin where she lives,...	Rosemarie	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2003	Movie Barbara Sukowa on Lola Actress Barbara Sukowa began her career in the German theater. In this 2003 interview she discusses her move into film...	Self	Not rated
2002	TV Gero von Boehm begegnet...	Self	Not rated
2002	TV Liebe, Lügen, Leidenschaften The renowned Viennese fashion designer Franz Steiniger learns that he has a fatal illness and then retires to Italy with...	Barbara Landau	TMDB 3.8 / 10
2001	Movie Thirteen Conversations About One Thing In New York City, the lives of a lawyer, an actuary, a house-cleaner, a professor, and the people around them...	Helen	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2000	Movie Urbania A series of urban legends take place around the life of a troubled man who is searching New York City...	Clara - The Married Woman	TMDB 5.6 / 10
1999	Movie The Lady in Question In 1938, Jewish-rights activist Emma Sachs is targeted by the Nazis. When she dies, foul play is suspected. But was...	Rachel Singer	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1999	Movie Cradle Will Rock A true story of politics and art in the 1930s USA, centered around a leftist musical drama and attempts to...	Sophie Silvano	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1999	Movie The Third Miracle The Vatican sends a priest to verify some miracles, performed by a woman who has been nominated for sainthood...	Helen O’Regan	TMDB 5.9 / 10
1999	Movie Nightworld: Lost Souls As a family moves into their new country home, strange events occur, making them believe that their autistic daughter is...	Sheila Robinson	TMDB 5.0 / 10
1999	TV Beckmann Reinhold Beckmann hosts a weekly talk show.	Self	TMDB 4.3 / 10
1998	Movie The Port of Last Resort Documentary that follows the lives of several Jewish refugees who fled to Shanghai during WWII.	Annie Witting (voice)	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1997	Movie Office Killer When Dorine Douglas' job as proofreader for Constant Consumer magazine is turned into an at-home position during a downsizing, she...	Virginia Wingate	TMDB 5.2 / 10
1997	Movie In the Name of Innocence The mother of a murdered hitchhiker meets the offender.	Anna Loeser	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1995	Movie Johnny Mnemonic In a dystopian 2021, Johnny is a data trafficker who has an implant that allows him to securely store data...	Anna Kalmann	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1993	Movie M. Butterfly In 1960s China, French diplomat Rene Gallimard falls in love with opera singer Song Liling – but Song is not...	Jeanne Gallimard	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1993	TV Colpo di coda	Regina	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1991	Movie Europa Just after World War II, an American takes a railway job in Germany, but finds his position politically sensitive with...	Katharina Hartmann	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1991	Movie Voyager April 1957: Rational engineer Faber's plane crashes in Mexico, where he learns that he became a father in 1938. He...	Hannah	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1991	TV DAS! Every evening at 6:45 p.m. sharp, a prominent guest takes a seat on the red sofa—and DAS! provides daily updates...	Self	TMDB 4.7 / 10
1990	Movie The African Woman A dying woman, who stole her best friend's lover, is convinced that a spell has been cast on her, so...	Martha	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1987	Movie The Sicilian Egocentric bandit Salvatore Giuliano fights the Church, the Mafia, and the landed gentry while leading a populist movement for Sicilian...	Camilla, Duchess of Crotone	TMDB 5.2 / 10
1987	Movie Days to Remember They meet in Yugoslavia. Katharina, daughter of a Yugoslavian immigrant worker, has grown up in the Federal Republic of Germany....	Katharina	TMDB 5.3 / 10
1986	Movie Rosa Luxemburg Polish socialist and Marxist Rosa Luxemburg works tirelessly in the service of revolution in early 20th century Poland and Germany....	Rosa Luxemburg	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1985	TV Space A 13-hour miniseries detailing James A. Michner's fictional account of the American space program from the years after World War...	Liesl Kolff	TMDB 7.7 / 10
1983	Movie Un dimanche de flics Two policemen, Franck and Rupert, intervene in a Parisian heliport where drugs are exchanged for a large sum of money....	Patricia	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1983	Movie Equator Although based on a novel by Georges Simenon, director (and songwriter) Serge Gainsbourg has superimposed several dark emotions and a...	Adele	TMDB 4.1 / 10
1982	Movie Deadly Game A hunting party arrives at a lodge in the Tatra mountains in Slovakia, where one woman in the party had...	Daniela Mathiesen	TMDB 3.5 / 10
1981	Movie Marianne and Juliane Germany, 1968: The priest's daughters Marianna and Juliane both fight for changes in society, like making abortion legal. However their...	Marianne	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1981	Movie Lola Germany in the autumn of 1957: Lola, a seductive cabaret singer-prostitute exults in her power as a temptress of men,...	Lola	TMDB 6.9 / 10
1980	TV Berlin Alexanderplatz In late 1920s Berlin, Franz Biberkopf is released from prison and vows to go straight. However, he soon finds himself...	Mieze	TMDB 7.4 / 10
1980	TV Berlin Alexanderplatz In late 1920s Berlin, Franz Biberkopf is released from prison and vows to go straight. However, he soon finds himself...	Emilie "Mieze" Karsunke	TMDB 7.4 / 10
1979	TV Bavarian Film Awards	Self	Not rated
1979	TV St. Pauli-Landungsbrücken	Anka	TMDB 4.5 / 10
1979	TV NDR Talk Show	Self	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1978	Movie Heinrich Heine	Amalie Friedländer	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1977	Movie Women in New York In 1930s New York, a group of bored wealthy women convene in social situations and converse about their husbands and/or...	Crystal Allen	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1976	TV Kölner Treff	Self	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1974	TV Spécial cinéma Marcello Mastroianni, Isabelle Adjani, Alain Delon, Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen... the biggest stars in cinema were welcomed by Christian Defaye...	Self	TMDB 9.5 / 10
1974	TV Unter Ausschluß der Öffentlichkeit	Viktoria Herbst	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1970	TV Scene of the Crime Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on...	Babsi Meyer	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1964	TV Grimme Award Annual awarding of the Grimme Awards.	Self	Not rated
1951	TV German Film Award	Self	TMDB 6.0 / 10
TBA	Movie Unknownia Little Rory must save her father who disappeared on a treasure quest after an unfortunate encounter with a dragon. With...	Unknown character	Not rated

Year	Title	Role	Rating
2005	Movie Transamerica A transgender woman takes an unexpected journey when she learns that she had a son, now a teenage runaway hustling...	Thanks Crew	TMDB 7.0 / 10

Leibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting

2025 / TMDB 6.8

Klandestin WT

2025 / TMDB 6.8

Iris Berben - Ein persönliches Porträt

2024

Sukowa - Playful Like A Child

2024

We're Not Done Yet

2024

François Truffaut: My Life, a Screenplay

2024 / TMDB 6.4

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Got a question about Barbara Sukowa?

What are Barbara Sukowa's most successful films?

Barbara Sukowa is best known for her performances in "Wings of Desire" and "Marlene", both of which have received critical acclaim and solidified her status in cinema.

Has Barbara Sukowa won any major awards?

What was Barbara Sukowa's first film?

What is Barbara Sukowa's acting style?

What is Barbara Sukowa's estimated net worth?

How many children does Barbara Sukowa have?

With whom did Barbara Sukowa collaborate frequently?

What is a defining characteristic of Barbara Sukowa's roles?

Known for

Atomic Blonde (2017)

Personal details

Credits

Latest Release

Leibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting

Klandestin WT

Iris Berben - Ein persönliches Porträt

Sukowa - Playful Like A Child

We're Not Done Yet

François Truffaut: My Life, a Screenplay

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