Mavie Hörbiger (born November 14, 1979 in Munich

Munich

Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...

) is a German-Austrian actress. She has both German and Austrian citizenship

Multiple citizenship

Multiple citizenship is a status in which a person is concurrently regarded as a citizen under the laws of more than one state. Multiple citizenships exist because different countries use different, and not necessarily mutually exclusive, citizenship requirements...

. Actress Christiane Hörbiger

Christiane Hörbiger

Christiane Hörbiger is an Austrian television and film actress.-Life and work:Christiane Hörbiger is one of the three actress daughters of Austrian actors Attila Hörbiger and Paula Wessely . Her sisters are Elisabeth Orth and Maresa Hörbiger.She has played roles in various German and Austrian TV...

 is her aunt, comedian Christian Tramitz

Christian Tramitz

Christian Tramitz is a German actor, comedian, voice actor and author.- Life :Christian Tramitz is the grandson of Austrian actor Paul Hörbiger and nephew of actress Christiane Hörbiger. His parents are film producer Rudolf Tramitz and Monica, née Hörbiger...

 is a first cousin.

She did not complete college but visited the acting school of Christa Willschrei in Munich

Munich

Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...

. In 1996, she made her on-camera debut in Michael Gutmann's television feature "Nur für eine Nacht".

Mavie had theatre engagements in Hanover

Hanover

Hanover or Hannover, on the river Leine, is the capital of the federal state of Lower Saxony , Germany and was once by personal union the family seat of the Hanoverian Kings of Great Britain, under their title as the dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg...

 and Bochum

Bochum

Bochum is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, western Germany. It is located in the Ruhr area and is surrounded by the cities of Essen, Gelsenkirchen, Herne, Castrop-Rauxel, Dortmund, Witten and Hattingen.-History:...

 (Rachel in Sanft und grausam, 2006; Jeannie in Fettes Schwein, 2005; title role in Lulu, 2004; Gilda in Komödie der Verführung, 2002; Santuzza in Freunde II, 2001). From 2006 to 2008 she performs at the Theater Basel

Basel

Basel or Basle In the national languages of Switzerland the city is also known as Bâle , Basilea and Basilea is Switzerland's third most populous city with about 166,000 inhabitants. Located where the Swiss, French and German borders meet, Basel also has suburbs in France and Germany...

, her first role there being "Roxane" in the play Cyrano de Bergerac

Cyrano de Bergerac (play)

Cyrano de Bergerac is a play written in 1897 by Edmond Rostand. Although there was a real Cyrano de Bergerac, the play bears very scant resemblance to his life....

, followed by "Stella" in A Streetcar Named Desire

A Streetcar Named Desire (play)

A Streetcar Named Desire is a 1947 play written by American playwright Tennessee Williams for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948. The play opened on Broadway on December 3, 1947, and closed on December 17, 1949, in the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. The Broadway production was...

.

She worked as an interviewer for VIVA and recorded several audiobooks.

In 2004, she ranked third in the voting for the 100 Sexiest Women In The World held by the German edition of FHM

FHM

FHM, originally published as For Him Magazine, is an international monthly men's lifestyle magazine.- History :The magazine began publication in 1985 in the United Kingdom under the name For Him and changed its title to FHM in 1994 when Emap Consumer Media bought the magazine, although the full For...

magazine, just behind Britney Spears

Britney Spears

Britney Jean Spears is an American recording artist and entertainer. Born in McComb, Mississippi, and raised in Kentwood, Louisiana, Spears began performing as a child, landing acting roles in stage productions and television shows. She signed with Jive Records in 1997 and released her debut album...

 and Heidi Klum

Heidi Klum

Heidi Samuel , better known by her birth name Heidi Klum, is a German model, actress, television host, businesswoman, fashion designer, television producer, and occasional singer. In 2008 she became an American citizen while maintaining her native German citizenship...

. Although Mavie has already ranked in the top 100 five times (in 2002, 2004, 2005. 2006 and 2008) and is widely believed to be one of the most attractive German women, she has turned down offers to pose nude for the German edition of Playboy

Playboy

Playboy is an American men's magazine that features photographs of nude women as well as journalism and fiction. It was founded in Chicago in 1953 by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan from Hefner's mother. The magazine has grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc., with...

magazine.

In December 2006 she married the German Burgtheater

Burgtheater

The Burgtheater , originally known as K.K. Theater an der Burg, then until 1918 as the K.K. Hofburgtheater, is the Austrian National Theatre in Vienna and one of the most important German language theatres in the world.The Burgtheater was created in 1741 and has become known as "die Burg" by the...

 actor Michael Maertens.

1998

• Love Scenes from Planet Earth as 'Nina'

Director: Marc Rothemund

Marc Rothemund

Marc Rothemund is a German film director. He is the son of the film director Sigi Rothemund and the brother of the actress Nina Rothemund. He began his career as an assistant for his father and then began to direct episodes for TV series. His first feature film was the 1998 production Das...

 Cast: Cosma Shiva Hagen

Cosma Shiva Hagen

Cosma Shiva Hagen is a German actress and the daughter of New Wave/punk singer Nina Hagen and the late musician Ferdinand Karmelk. Her grandmother is actress Eva-Maria Hagen, and her step-grandfather is the East German dissident writer Wolf Biermann. Eva-Maria Hagen was allowed to emigrate to West...

, Gudrun Landgrebe

Gudrun Landgrebe

Gudrun Landgrebe is a German actress.Landgrebe was born in Göttingen, grew up in Bochum, and attended theatre school in Cologne from 1968 until 1971. In 1971 she made her debut at Stadttheater Bielefeld. She also appeared in Heimat as the character Klärchen Sisse...

• Solo for Clarinet as 'Emmie Weller'

Cast: Götz George

Götz George

Götz George is a German actor, son of actor couple Berta Drews and Heinrich George. His arguably best-known role is that of Duisburg commissar Horst Schimanski in the TV crime series Tatort.-Early years:...

, Corinna Harfouch, Barbara Rudnik

Barbara Rudnik

Barbara Rudnik was a German actress.-Selected filmography:-External links:...

, Nikolaus Paryla, Katharina Thalbach

Katharina Thalbach

Katharina Thalbach is a German actress and film director.- Life and work :Katharina Thalbach comes from a particularly artistic-oriented family. Her father Benno Besson was a director, her mother Sabine Thalbach was an actress. Her late husband Thomas Brasch was an author. Her daughter Anna and...

2000

• Bundle of Joy as 'Ina'

Cast: Pierre Besson, Anke Engelke

Anke Engelke

Anke Christina Fischer is a German comedian, actress and voice-over actress born in Montréal, Quebec, Canada.Engelke moved to Cologne in 1971 with her parents...

• Fandango as 'Tina'

Cast: Moritz Bleibtreu

Moritz Bleibtreu

Moritz Bleibtreu is a German actor.Bleibtreu was born in Munich, the son of actors Monica Bleibtreu and Hans Brenner, and the great-grand-nephew of the actress Hedwig Bleibtreu.Bleibtreu grew up in Hamburg...

, Corinna Harfouch

2001

• Jeans as herself

Cast: Jasmin Tabatabai

Jasmin Tabatabai

Jasmin Tabatabai is a German-Iranian singer, songwriter and actress.- Life and work :...

, Benno Fürmann

Benno Fürmann

Benjamin "Benno" Fürmann is a German film and television actor.-Life and work:Fürmann was born in Berlin-Kreuzberg. By the age of 15 he had lost both his parents. At 17, he had a serious accident while train surfing, and had to spend six weeks in the hospital as a result...

• Vera Brühne (TV) as 'Stephanie Virno'

Cast: Corinna Harfouch, Uwe Ochsenknecht

Uwe Ochsenknecht

Uwe Adam Ochsenknecht is a German actor and singer.-Work:Films Uwe Ochsenknecht has starred in include Schtonk!, Das Boot and the TV miniseries Frank Herbert's Dune.-Personal life:...

, Michael Degen, Ulrich Noethen

Ulrich Noethen

Ulrich Noethen is a German actor who has appeared in many movies and TV films.He starred in Comedian Harmonists. He also played Heinrich Himmler twice, in Der Untergang and Mein Führer – Die wirklich wahrste Wahrheit über Adolf Hitler.Noethen has won various awards for his acting, including the...

, Hans Werner Meyer

Hans Werner Meyer

Hans Werner Meyer is a German film and television actor.-Selected filmography:* Marlene * Safe Conduct * The Baader Meinhof Complex * Albert Schweitzer -External links:...

, Hans-Peter Korff, Fritz Wepper

Fritz Wepper

Fritz Wepper is a German television actor.- Life and work :He has been married to Angela Prinzessin von Hohenzollern since 1979, and they have one daughter, Sophie...

• Vier Meerjungfrauen (TV) as 'Merle'

Cast: Hannelore Hoger

Hannelore Hoger

Hannelore Hoger is a German actress and director.- External links :...

, Jürgen Schornagel, August Zirner

August Zirner

August Zirner is an American-Austrian actor, who starred in over 60 film productions. He is one of the most popular actors in Germany.-Biography:...

• 100 Pro as 'Vicky'

Director: Simon Verhoeven

Simon Verhoeven

Simon Verhoeven is a German actor, screenwriter and film director. He is the son of the actor Senta Berger and the director Michael Verhoeven. His filmography as an actor includes Bride of the Wind and The Sinking of the Laconia .-Sources:*http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0894207/...

 Cast: Ken Duken

Ken Duken

Ken Duken is a German actor.Ken Duken is the third child of film and stage actress Christina Loeb; his father is a doctor. Duken never attended a drama school but took courses in drama, including under James Reynold...

, Max von Thun, Luca Verhoeven

• Zsa Zsa

Cast: Max Tidof

Max Tidof

-Selected filmography:* Vergeßt Mozart * Ludwig 1881 * Abgeschminkt! * Bergkristall -External links:...

2002

• Nogo as 'Rosa'

Cast: Meret Becker

Meret Becker

- Life and career :Becker was born in Bremen, the daughter of the actors Monika Hansen and Rolf Becker. She is the sister of Ben Becker, stepdaughter of Otto Sander and granddaughter of Claire Schlichting....

, Giora Seeliger, Jasmin Tabatabai

Jasmin Tabatabai

Jasmin Tabatabai is a German-Iranian singer, songwriter and actress.- Life and work :...

• Schweigen ist Gold (TV) as 'Jenny'

Cast: Roman Knizka, Horst Krause, Peter Sattmann, Julia Richter, Leslie Malton

• Auf Herz und Nieren as 'Nicole'

Cast: Steffen Wink, Udo Kier

Udo Kier

Udo Kier is a German actor, known primarily for his work in horror and exploitation movies.-Early life:...

, Burt Reynolds

Burt Reynolds

Burton Leon "Burt" Reynolds, Jr. is an American actor. Some of his memorable roles include Bo 'Bandit' Darville in Smokey and the Bandit, Lewis Medlock in Deliverance, Bobby "Gator" McCluskey in White Lightning and sequel Gator, Paul Crewe and Coach Nate Scarborough in The Longest Yard and its...

, Xavier Naidoo

Xavier Naidoo

Xavier Kurt Naidoo is a German singer-songwriter, record producer and occasional actor. Born and raised in Mannheim, Naidoo worked in several jobs in the gastronomy and the musical industry before relocating to the United States in the early 1990s, where he released his first full-length English...

, Axel Schulz

Axel Schulz

Axel Schulz is a retired German heavyweight boxer.-Amateur career:From 1982 Schulz boxed for the army sports club Vorwärts in Frankfurt , later becoming the East German youth champion...

• Tatort - Zartbitterschokolade (TV)

Director: Erhard Riedlsperger Cast: August Schmölzer

August Schmölzer

August Schmölzer is an Austrian actor and writer.-Sources:*http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0773590/...

, Dominic Raacke

2003

• Napoleon (TV) as 'Marie Louise of Austria'

Cast: Christian Clavier

Christian Clavier

Christian Clavier is a French actor. He is the brother of French film director Stéphane Clavier.-Biography:After his high class studies at the Neuilly Lycée Pasteur—though asserted here and there, he never studied at Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris —he started his acting career with the...

, John Malkovich

John Malkovich

John Gavin Malkovich is an American actor, producer, director and fashion designer with his label Technobohemian. Over the last 25 years of his career, Malkovich has appeared in more than 70 motion pictures. For his roles in Places in the Heart and In the Line of Fire, he received Academy Award...

, Isabella Rossellini

Isabella Rossellini

Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna Rossellini is an Italian actress, filmmaker, author, philanthropist, and model. Rossellini is noted for her 14-year tenure as a Lancôme model, and for her roles in films such as Blue Velvet and Death Becomes Her.-Background and early life:Rossellini is a...

, Gérard Depardieu

Gérard Depardieu

Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu is a French actor and filmmaker. He is a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur, Chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite and has twice won the César Award for Best Actor...

, Heino Ferch

Heino Ferch

Heino Ferch is an award-winning German film and television actor.-Life:The son of a cargo vessel skipper, he was on stage for the first time in his life at the age of 15, while he was still attending grammar school...

, Alexandra Maria Lara

Alexandra Maria Lara

Alexandra Maria Lara is a Romanian-born German actress. She performs predominantly in leading roles in a variety of historical and crime films...

, Sebastian Koch

Sebastian Koch

-Life and career:Koch was born in Karlsruhe and grew up in Stuttgart. His mother raised him alone, and he spent some time in the children's home where she worked...

, Marie Bäumer

• Feiertag

Cast: Dietmar Mössmer

• The Poet as 'Rita'

Cast: Dougray Scott

Dougray Scott

-Early life:The son of Elma, a nurse, and Alan Scott, an actor and salesperson, Stephen Dougray Scott was born in Glenrothes, Fife and attended Auchmuty High School...

, Jürgen Prochnow

Jürgen Prochnow

Jürgen Prochnow is a German actor. His most well-known roles internationally have been as the sympathetic submarine captain in Das Boot , Duke Leto Atreides I in Dune , the minor, but important role of Neo-Stalinist dictator General Ivan Radek in Air Force One and the villain Maxwell Dent in...

, Miguel Herz-Kestranek

• Fremder Freund as 'Nora'

Cast: Mina Tander, Antonio Wannek, Navíd Akhavan

Navíd Akhavan

Navíd Akhavan is an Iranian-German actor best known for his role as Hakan in the German comedy television series König von Kreuzberg....

• Shit Happens as 'Silea'

2004

• 7 Dwarves – Men Alone in the Wood as 'Little Red Riding Hood'

Cast: Cosma Shiva Hagen

Cosma Shiva Hagen

Cosma Shiva Hagen is a German actress and the daughter of New Wave/punk singer Nina Hagen and the late musician Ferdinand Karmelk. Her grandmother is actress Eva-Maria Hagen, and her step-grandfather is the East German dissident writer Wolf Biermann. Eva-Maria Hagen was allowed to emigrate to West...

, Nina Hagen

Nina Hagen

Nina Hagen is a German singer and actress.-Early years:Hagen was born as Catharina Hagen in the former East Berlin, East Germany, the daughter of Hans Hagen , a scriptwriter, and Eva-Maria Hagen, an actress and singer...

, Helge Schneider

Helge Schneider

Helge Schneider is a German comedian, jazz musician and multi-instrumentalist, author, film and theatre director, and actor....

, Christian Tramitz

Christian Tramitz

Christian Tramitz is a German actor, comedian, voice actor and author.- Life :Christian Tramitz is the grandson of Austrian actor Paul Hörbiger and nephew of actress Christiane Hörbiger. His parents are film producer Rudolf Tramitz and Monica, née Hörbiger...

, Otto Waalkes

Otto Waalkes

Otto Gerhard Waalkes is a Frisian comedian and actor. He became famous in the 1970s and 1980s in Germany with his shows, books and movies. His perhaps most famous trademark are the 'Ottifanten' , elephant-like comic characters of his own design...

• So fühlt sich Liebe an (TV) as 'Alexandra'

Cast: Maria Furtwängler

Maria Furtwängler

Maria Furtwängler-Burda is a German physician and television actress. She is the daughter of an architect and actress Kathrin Ackermann and at once grandniece and step-granddaughter of the conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler....

, Hannes Jaenicke

Hannes Jaenicke

Hannes Jaenicke is a German actor. He has played in various television shows and movies, including Lost Treasure.-Selected filmography:* Rosa Luxemburg * Allein unter Töchtern...

, Jan Gregor Kremp, Ute Willing

• Ring of the Nibelungs
  Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King
  Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King is a fantasy film and mini-series based on the Norse mythology story Völsungasaga and the German epic poem Nibelungenlied, which tells the mythological story of Siegfried the Dragon-Slayer...
  
  (TV) as 'Lena'

Cast: Benno Fürmann

Benno Fürmann

Benjamin "Benno" Fürmann is a German film and television actor.-Life and work:Fürmann was born in Berlin-Kreuzberg. By the age of 15 he had lost both his parents. At 17, he had a serious accident while train surfing, and had to spend six weeks in the hospital as a result...

, Kristanna Loken

Kristanna Loken

Kristanna Sommer Loken is an American actress known for her work in both film and television, and as a fashion model.-Early life:Loken was born in Ghent, New York, the daughter of Rande , a model, and Merlin "Chris" Loken, a writer and apple farmer. All four of her grandparents were born in Norway...

, Alicia Witt

Alicia Witt

Alicia Roanne Witt is an American film, stage, television actress and singer.-Early life:Witt was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. Her mother, Diane , is a junior high school reading teacher, and her father, Robert Witt, is a science teacher and photographer. She has a brother, Ian...

• Giacomo Casanova (TV) as 'Bellino (Teresa)'

Cast: Robert Hunger-Bühler, Michael Brandner, Martina Gedeck

Martina Gedeck

Martina Gedeck is a German actress. She came to broader, international attention due to her roles in films such as Mostly Martha, The Lives of Others, and The Baader Meinhof Complex...

2005

• Blackout Journey as 'Stella'

Cast: Marek Harloff, Arno Frisch

Arno Frisch

Arno Frisch is an Austrian actor. He has had central roles in two films by Michael Haneke, namely, Benny's Video and Funny Games.-External links:...

• Arme Millionäre (TV) episodes 1 to 4 as 'Lilo Rafael'

Cast: Sky du Mont

Sky du Mont

Sky du Mont is a German actor. He is known for his role in Eyes Wide Shut, as "Santa Maria" in Der Schuh des Manitu and for narrating the German dub of Thomas & Friends...

, Andrea Sawatzki

Andrea Sawatzki

Andrea Sawatzki is a German actress. Since 2002 she has starred in the Hessischer Rundfunk version of the popular television crime series Tatort as police inspector Charlotte Sänger....

2006

• Three Sisters Made in Germany (TV) as 'Guddi'

Cast: Barbara Rudnik

Barbara Rudnik

Barbara Rudnik was a German actress.-Selected filmography:-External links:...

, Karoline Eichhorn, Stefan Kurt

• Esperanza as 'Natascha'

Cast: Anna Thalbach, Boris Aljinovic

• Die Ohrfeige (TV) as 'Elisabeth'

Cast: Herbert Knaup

Herbert Knaup

Herbert Knaup is a German film and television actor.-Selected filmography:* Run Lola Run * Marlene * Distant Lights * Jerry Cotton * In Darkness -External links:...

, Julia Stemberger

• Arme Millionäre (TV) episodes 5 to 12 as 'Lilo Rafael'
• Marmorera as 'Paula Cavegn'

Cast: Anatole Taubmann, Eva Dewaele

2006

• Sanft und grausam as 'Rachel' in Hanover
• Cyrano de Bergerac
  Cyrano de Bergerac (play)
  Cyrano de Bergerac is a play written in 1897 by Edmond Rostand. Although there was a real Cyrano de Bergerac, the play bears very scant resemblance to his life....
  
  as 'Roxane' in Basel

2007

• A Streetcar Named Desire
  A Streetcar Named Desire (play)
  A Streetcar Named Desire is a 1947 play written by American playwright Tennessee Williams for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948. The play opened on Broadway on December 3, 1947, and closed on December 17, 1949, in the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. The Broadway production was...
  
  as 'Stella' in Basel
• Vor Sonnenuntergang as 'Ottilie Klamroth' in Basel
• A Midsummer Night's Dream
  A Midsummer Night's Dream
  A Midsummer Night's Dream is a play that was written by William Shakespeare. It is believed to have been written between 1590 and 1596. It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and the Queen of the Amazons, Hippolyta...
  
  as 'Hermia' in Salzburg and Zürich
• The Brothers Lionheart
  The Brothers Lionheart
  The Brothers Lionheart is a children's fantasy novel written by Astrid Lindgren. It was published in the fall of 1973 and has been translated into 46 languages. Many of its themes are unusually dark and heavy for the children's book genre. Disease, death, tyranny, betrayal and rebellion are some...
  
  as 'Karl Lionheart' in Basel

2008

• Doubleface oder die Innenseite des Mantels as 'Sylvie' in Basel
• Liebe und Geld as 'Jess' in Basel
• Die Judith von Shimoda as 'Judith' in Vienna

External links

• www.mavie-hoerbiger.com
• Mavie Hörbiger fanpage