Dr. House is Franky Potente's favorite show. The actress is proud to have starred in the first two seasons of this cult series. However, fame brought her a key role in the film "Run, Lola, Run." Other successful films with her participation are Bourne Identity and Bourne Supremacy.
Franca Potente: family, childhood
The German actress was born in Dulmen on July 22, 1974. Franca Potente is the eldest of two children, a doctor and a teacher. The actress has a younger brother. The Italian surname went to Franca from her great-grandfather. The roofer from Sicily in the 19th century moved to Germany in search of a better life, managed not to disappear in a foreign country.
Frank came to thoughts about the acting profession in a very unusual way. Her younger brother was a sickly child. The girl suffered due to the fact that mom and dad pay him more attention. She wanted them to be proud of her successes, admired her. It was in childhood that Frank decided that she should become famous. She played her first roles in performances, which she herself arranged for family and friends.
First successes
By the time she graduated from school, Frank Potente had already coped with the resentment of her parents and brother. But the girl’s desire to become an actress only strengthened. She went to Munich in order to receive an appropriate education. Frank learned the secrets of the profession in the drama school of Otto Falkenberg.
Potente got her first role before graduating from the studio. In one of the Munich bars, the aspiring actress met a strange woman. An unknown lady asked her to describe herself in one sentence. It turned out that the woman is a casting manager. She was looking for the lead singer for the comedy "After Five in the Jungle" by Hans-Christian Schmid. Franka managed to interest her, so she received an invitation to the casting. She played the 17-year-old girl Anna, who escaped from home and plunged headlong into the nightlife of Munich.
From obscurity to fame
The painting “After Five in the Jungle” became for Franck Potent a kind of springboard in a big movie. After that, the actress played several passing roles, for example, embodied the image of Lena in the comedy “Three Girls at a Gas Station”. The fame “Run, Lola, Run” brought her fame.
In the story, Lola and Manny are madly in love. Manny enters the curve path, becomes the courier of a big bandit. One day he loses a bag full of money that belongs to his boss. Lola has to save his beloved from the death threatening him. The girl is given only 20 minutes to find somewhere a hundred thousand brands. She is waiting for a dangerous and dizzying run. The image of Lola and embodied Frank.
Film career
After the triumph of the film “Run, Lola, Run”, films with Frank Potente began to be released one after another. The newly made star played in Cocaine with Penelope Cruz and Johnny Depp, and in The Seventeen Years with Elijah Wood. Blockbusters about the adventures of the super agent “Bourne Supremacy” and “Bourne Identity” helped her to increase her popularity and the number of fans.
Franka was pleased to star in popular TV shows. Most of all, she is pleased with her role in the first two seasons of Doctor House. It is known that the actress did not stop watching this show even after she stopped acting in it.
Filmography
There are other interesting film and television projects with the participation of the star. Filmography Franky Potente:
- "Ball at the Opera."
- "Am I beautiful?"
- "City in the valley."
- "South Seas, own island."
- "Night invasion."
- "Anatomy".
- "The Princess and the Warrior."
- "Storyteller".
- "The Two Lives of Gray Evans."
- "Life in the Suitcases."
- "Elementary particles".
- "Clairvoyant".
- "Forgotten desires."
- "A raid on the executioner."
- "Che: Part Two."
- "Shanghai".
- Valerie.
- The Crash of Laconia.
- "American Horror Story".
- "Pointing."
- "Bridge".
- "Black matter."
- "Spell-2."
- "Claws."
- The Muse of Death.
- "Taboo".
- "Between the worlds."
Franka has been a sought-after actress for many years. The proof is the fact that soon there will be a few more new paintings with her, including “Princess Emmy” and “Blanco”.
Behind the scenes
Potente does not refuse to talk about his personal life. While working on the series “House,” she met actor Derek Richardson. Love at first sight did not happen, the artists looked closely at each other for a long time. Colleagues got married in 2012. Now they are raising two daughters. Polly was born in 2011, and Georgie in 2013. The actress easily combines the role of wife and mother with work. In the photo - Franky Potente with his spouse.