Alexandra Maria Lara Image Collection
by Abbey on Sep.06, 2010, under Actress, Gallery, updates
Alexandra Maria Lara (born November 12, 1978) is a Romanian-born German actress. She performs predominantly in leading roles in a variety of historical and crime films. She is best known for her roles in Control (2007), Youth Without Youth (2007), Nackt (2002), Downfall (2004), About the Looking for and the Finding of Love (2005), and The Reader (2008).
By age sixteen she was already playing lead roles in various television dramas. Since then her career has developed and she has become a respected film actress. Alexandra’s most famous role to date, which has resulted in international recognition, is as Traudl Junge, Adolf Hitler’s secretary, in the Oscar-nominated 2004 film Der Untergang (Downfall). Due to her convincing performance in Der Untergang, Francis Ford Coppola wrote her a letter and gave her a leading role in Youth Without Youth (2007).
In 2007 Alexandra also appeared as journalist Annik Honoré in the film Control, the Ian Curtis biopic. In 2008, she served as a member of the Cannes Film Festival jury. She played a lead role in Greek director Theo Angelopoulos’s 2008 film The Dust of Time, opposite Irène Jacob and Bruno Ganz. More recently, she appeared in The Reader and Der Baader Meinhof Komplex which were both nominated for the 81st Academy Awards (best picture and best foreign language film, respectively).
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