• Name: Alexandra Maria Lara
  • Date of Birth: November 12, 1978
  • Place of Birth: Bucharest, Romania
Mini-bio: With delicately chiseled Eastern European features and a lithe, graceful presence, Romanian-born actress Alexandra Maria Lara evinced professional qualities that promised to set her apart from her con... read moretemporaries. She launched her career rather nonchalantly, with roles that confined her to her native continent -- films such as the 2001 satire Südsee, eigene Insel and the 2002 psychological drama Fisimatenten that generally failed to traverse the Atlantic. Lara expanded her scope, however, via two key crossover roles, both portrayals of historic figures that played largely off of the thespian's classical look: that of Countess Maria Walewska in Yves Simoneau's 2002 epic telemovie Napoleon (about the titular French ruler) and that of Traudl Junge, a young housekeeper who bears witness to Adolf Hitler's decline, in the superior period drama Downfall (2004). International audiences next caught Lara via a small supporting role in Control (2007), director Anton Corbijn's much anticipated biopic of post-punk singer Ian Curtis. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
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Replace this image with an actor photoAlexandra Maria Lara mini-bio: Born Alexandra Maria Platareanu on 12 November 1978 in Bucharest, Romania, she fled to Germany with her parents when she was four and half years old. After graduating at the French High School, she studied acting at the Theaterwerkstatt Charlottenburg from 1997 and 2000, but had already played leading characters in several TV shows and movies such as Bubi Scholz Story, Die (1998) (TV). Due to her critically acclaimed performance in Tunnel, Der (2001), she has appeared in several successful national and international projects, most notably the Oscar nominated Untergang, Der (2004).

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