Short bio

Martina Gedeck is one of Germany's most distinguished and popular actresses. She completed her acting training at the Universität der Künste (University of the Arts) in Berlin. She made her theater debut 1985 at the Frankfurt Theater am Turm, followed by engagements in Hamburg, Basel and Berlin. At the same time, she started her career as a film actress.

The film industry celebrated her with almost all major film awards from the Grimme Award to the star on the Boulevard der Stars. Above all, her performance in “Bella Martha”, the Oscarwinning film “Das Leben der anderen” and the Oscar-nominated “Der Baader Meinhof Komplex” catapulted her into the league of large-scale international productions, where she appeared alongside Matt Damon, Jeremy Irons or Helen Mirren.

Martina Gedeck excelled in the Austrian film adaptation “Die Wand”, with Klaus Maria Brandauer in “Die Auslöschung”, in the “Night Train to Lisbon” with Jeremy Irons, in “Am Hang”, in the multi-award-winning television game “Das Ende der Geduld” and 2015 in the feature films “Anne Frank” and “Gleissendes Glück”.

Currently you can see Martina Gedeck as the strict island boss Beatrice in the sky original series “Helgoland 513” and in “Woodwalkers”.

Martina Gedeck is a member of the Motion Picture Academy AMPAS, the European Film Academy, the German Film & TV Academy Berlin, the Academy of Performing Arts Baden-Wuerttemberg as well as the recipient of the Bavarian Order of Merit and the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres.