Franca Potente is a German film actress, screenwriter and director. She began her film career in 1995 with the movie "After Five in the Jungle." Potente fame brought the main role in the film "Run, Lola, Run."
In the creative biography of Potente more than sixty roles in television and film projects. Franca also tried herself as a screenwriter and director, shooting a short comedy-sci-fi movie "Digging Up Belladonna."
Facts from the biography
The girl was born in the summer of 1974 in the German city of Dulmen. Her father was a teacher, and her mother was a paramedic. The ancestors of Franks were from Sicily. Great-great-grandfather moved to Germany in his youth, began to work as a tiler, then he married and stayed in the country forever.
Franca was the eldest child in the family. She has a younger brother who has been a very sick child since birth. All the parents' attention was directed to him, so the girl was very jealous and took offense at her mother, father and brother.
In order for her parents to pay attention to her, Franka constantly arranged different performances at home and acted like a clown, not realizing that the younger brother needed constant care. Only becoming older, Franca was able to forgive her relatives, because they loved her no less than her son.
Passion for creativity did not stop at the girl during the years of study at the gymnasium. She began to attend the theater studio, participated in various performances and performances. And soon I realized that she wanted to become a real actress.
Franka also graduated from music school in violin and flute classes. She speaks three languages perfectly: German, English and French. Another of her hobbies is fencing.
After completing her elementary education, Frank continued her studies at the Otto Falckenberg School, a theater school located in Munich. Then she went to New York, where she entered the Lee Strasberg Theater Institut.
Film career
Frank got her first film role as a student at the institute. The history that preceded this event was very unusual. Sitting at the bar, the girl noticed that one woman was constantly looking at her somehow strangely. When Franca was about to leave, the woman came up to her and asked if she could describe herself in just two or three words.
As a result, it turned out that this “strange” woman was an agent for selecting actors and was looking for a contender for the lead role in the movie “After Five in the Jungle”. The girl’s appearance and behavior attracted her attention. As a result, Frank got the opportunity to star in his first film.
The film received high marks from viewers and film critics. Franca won the film award for the best debut of the year in Germany. After that, the young actress began to be invited to new projects.
The most famous Potent brought the role of Lola in Tom Tykver’s film "Run, Lola, Run." After the release of the picture on the screens, Frank became practically a symbol of the new cinematic wave of the late 1990s.
The film was a huge success with the audience, received a prize of audience sympathy at the Sundance Film Festival. The film was also nominated for prizes: the British Academy, the European Film Academy and the Venice Film Festival. In total, the film received more than twenty different awards.
In the future career of the actress, there were many interesting roles. It is worth noting her work in the films: Cocaine, Bourne Identity, Bourne Supremacy, Anatomy 2, Street Eyes, Spell 2, Black Matter, Taboo, House Doctor, The Muse of Death.
