German screen actress whose breakthrough came in 1998 when she portrayed the titular role in the acclaimed arthouse action thriller Run Lola Run, for which she won a BAMBI Award for Best Actress. (Specifically written for her persona, her role was that of a woman who needs to obtain 100,000 Deutsche Mark in twenty minutes to save her boyfriend’s life). She received further critical acclaim and a Bavarian Television Award nomination for her performance in the television film Opernball (also 1998). She had made her screen debut in the comedy film After Five in the Forest Primeval (1995), for which she won a Bavarian Film Award for Best Young Actress.
After half a decade of well-received roles in German productions, Potente made the transition into Hollywood with her role in the biographical crime film Blow (2001), and achieved wider recognition for her appearances in The Bourne Identity (2002) and The Bourne Supremacy (2004). She portrayed communist revolutionary Tamara Bunke in Che (2008), and psychologist Anita Gregory in The Conjuring 2 (2016). Her other notable films include Anatomy (2000), The Princess and the Warrior (2000), Creep (2004), Romulus, My Father (2007), Eichmann (2007), and Muse (2017).
Potente has starred in the television series Copper (2012–2013), Taboo (2017) and currently, Claws. She also played recurring roles in the second seasons of American Horror Story (2012) and The Bridge (2014).
In April 2011, Potente and her partner, American actor Derek Richardson, had a daughter named Polly. In mid-2012, the couple married in a private ceremony. In 2013, they had their second daughter, Georgie.
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