Barbara Sukowa

Personal Info

Birthday

February 2, 1950

(75 years old)

Place of Birth

Bremen, Germany

Also Known As

Barbara Sukova

Barbara Sukowa

Biography

Barbara Sukowa (born 2 February 1950) is a German theatre and film actress. She is known for her work with directors Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Margarethe von Trotta. She won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for the film Rosa Luxemburg (1986). Her other film appearances include Lola (1981), Europa (1990), M. Butterfly (1993), and Hannah Arendt (2012). Description above from the Wikipedia article Barbara Sukowa, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Scene of the Crime

Servant

12 Monkeys

The Night Agent

Constellation

Atomic Blonde

The Swarm

Air

Filmography

2025
Leibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting
as Kurfürstin Sophie von Hannover
2024
We're Not Done Yet
as Bettina
François Truffaut: My Life, a Screenplay
as Helen Hessel (voice)
2023
Enkel für Fortgeschrittene
as Philippa
Air
as Kathy Dassler
2022
White Noise
as Sister Hermann Marie
Dalíland
as Gala
2021
Out of Exile: The Photography of Fred Stein
as Voice of Lilo Stein
2020
Two of Us
as Nina Dorn
Granny Nanny
as Philippa
2019
Rocca Changes the World
as Dodo
Gloria Bell
as Melinda
Native Son
as Peggy
2017
Atomic Blonde
as Coroner
2016
Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe
as Friderike Zweig
2015
The Misplaced World
as Caterina Fabiani / Evelyn Kromberger
2014
Salomea's Nose
as Salomea (voice)
The Sky is Blue
as Marquez
2012
Hannah Arendt
as Hannah Arendt
2011
Nacht ohne Morgen
as Katharina
2009
Vision – From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen
as Hildegard von Bingen
Veronika Decides to Die
as Mom
2008
Die Entdeckung der Currywurst
as Lena Brücker
2007
Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz: A Mega Movie and Its Story
as Self
2005
Romance & Cigarettes
as Gracie
2004
The Other Woman
as Vera Glaubitz
2003
A Birthday to Remember
as Rosemarie
Barbara Sukowa on Lola
as Self
2001
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
as Helen
2000
Urbania
as Clara - The Married Woman
1999
The Lady in Question
as Rachel Singer
Cradle Will Rock
as Sophie Silvano
The Third Miracle
as Helen O’Regan
Nightworld: Lost Souls
as Sheila Robinson
1998
The Port of Last Resort
as Annie Witting (voice)
1997
Office Killer
as Virginia Wingate
In the Name of Innocence
as Anna Loeser
1995
Johnny Mnemonic
as Anna Kalmann
1993
M. Butterfly
as Jeanne Gallimard
1991
Europa
as Katharina Hartmann
Voyager
as Hannah
1990
The African Woman
as Martha
1987
The Sicilian
as Camilla, Duchess of Crotone
Days to Remember
as Katharina
1986
Rosa Luxemburg
as Rosa Luxemburg
1983
Un dimanche de flics
as Patricia
Equator
as Adele
1982
Deadly Game
as Daniela Mathiesen
1981
Marianne and Juliane
as Marianne
Lola
as Lola
1978
Heinrich Heine
as Amalie Friedländer
1977
Women in New York
as Crystal Allen