Heike Makatsch
Biography
Makatsch was born in Düsseldorf, Germany, the daughter of former German national ice hockey team goaltender Rainer Makatsch. She spent several months in New Mexico in 1988 in an effort to improve her English, and later studied politics and sociology at the University of Düsseldorf for four semesters, which was followed by an apprenticeship as a dressmaker until 1994. Her television career started in 1993, when she was hired by music channel VIVA, hosting shows such as Interaktiv and Heikes Hausbesuche; two years later, on August 13 1995, she became the host of the German chart show BRAVO TV, aired by RTL II, a position she kept until summer 1996. In 1997 she started hosting her own weekly, late night show titled Heike Makatsch Show. However, due to bad ratings, it was cancelled after only eight episodes. Makatsch first appeared in a movie in 1996, when she starred in Detlev Buck's Männerpension (English: "Jailbirds"); she received the Bavarian Film Award as most talented young actor for her performance. Since then, she has appeared in several German and English language productions.
Acting (56 movies)
Love Actually
2003
No Songs of Love
2005
Resident Evil
2002
Aimée & Jaguar
1999
Anatomy 2
2003
Naked
2002
Gripsholm
2000
Kroos
2019
A Sound of Thunder
2005
A Goddamn Job
2001
Tara Road
2005
Schwesterherz
2007
Hilde
2009
Hui Buh: The Castle Ghost
2006
Das Wunder von Lengede
2003
Love Your Female Neighbor!
1998
Zero
2021
Margarete Steiff
2005
Männerpension
1996
Nachts im Park
2002
Akiko, the Flying Monkey
2025
Late Night Shopping
2001
The Door
2009
Das Gelbe vom Ei
1999
Dr. Hope
2009
Tails You Win, Heads You Lose
1999
Obsession
1997
Schade um das schöne Geld
2008
Tom Sawyer
2011
Homecoming
2012
Sechzehneichen
2012
The Book Thief
2013
Back on Track
2013
Longitude
2000
The Adventures of Huck Finn
2012
Männer und andere Katastrophen
1999
About a Girl
2015
Wir machen durch bis morgen früh
2014
Everything is Love
2014
Almost Heaven - Ein Cowgirl auf Jamaika
2005
Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution
2007
Twice New Life
2016
Familie auf Bestellung
2004
The Pasta Detectives 3
2016
Bibi Blocksberg - Das große Hexentreffen
2025
Benjamin the Elephant
2019
Strange Daughter
2017
Teenosaurus Rex
2017
Speechless
2016
Am I Beautiful?
1998
The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
2018
I've Never Been to New York
2019
Zielfahnder: Blutiger Tango
2019
9 Days Awake
2020
God, You’re Such a Prick
2020
Slava der Hund
2024
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Schwesterherz | 2007 | Screenplay |