- Born
- Nickname
- Marina Gedeckt
- Height1.75 m
- Martina Gedeck was born in Munich. After spending a year in the US, she studied drama at the Berlin University of the Arts. Martina's film career began while she was still at drama school. Her filmography covers practically all genres of film.
Gedeck has won a total of 23 major cinema and TV awards. She was nominated as Europe's best actress on her role in "Mostly Martha". The film was later remade with Catherine Zeta-Jones playing her role.
Her films were twice selected as Germany's entry to the Oscars. In 2007, "The Lives of Others" with her in the lead role won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. In 2009 she again had the title role in Germany's Oscar contender "The Baader Meinhof Complex", also nominated for the Golden Globes.
Martina Gedeck resides in Berlin, Germany.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Bieblo
- SpouseMarkus Imboden(? - present)
- Lived together with the actor Ulrich Wildgruber until his suicide in 1999.
- Longtime companion of Markus Imboden.
- Ranked #1 in a list of "Gala" magazine searching "the most important German actress of today" 2006.
- Born to businessman Karl-Heinz Gedeck and his wife Helga, an artist, she is the eldest of three daughters.
- Member of jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2003.
- My audience doesn't want to know how many eggs I fry in the morning. I speak through my characters.
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