Best Known As: Film Actor

Gist:  Johanna Wokalek (born March 3, 1975) is a German stage and film actress. A student of Klaus Maria Brandauer, she received critical recognition and three newcomer awards for her performance in the play Rose Bernd. She received the Bambi award for her portayal of the Red Army Faction terrorist Gudrun Ensslin in 2008.

Life Facts:  Wokalek was born in Freiburg, Germany, daughter of a professor of dermatology from Media?, Romania. She attended the Friedrich-Gymnasium in Freiburg where she first tried acting in the school's drama group in 1991.

Wokalek is fluent in English and can speak a little French as well as her native German.

After her final exams in 1994 Wokalek intended to allow herself up to three applications at drama schools before choosing a different career. Brandauer, well known for his parts in Mephisto, Out of Africa and Never Say Never Again, started teaching at the seminar at the same time.