Bernadette Heerwagen

Bernadette Heerwagen

Bernadette Heerwagen (born 22 June 1977) is a German actress. She began acting at the age of 16, and has since co-starred in the 1999 production Der Schandfleck, for which she was awarded the Bayerischer Fernsehpreis Sonderpreis in 2000. Heerwagen has gone on to star in a variety of leading and supporting roles in German and Austrian television, films, dramas and European cinema. In 2004 her leading performance in Grüße Aus Kaschmir took her to greater prominence within Germany and France. She has twice won Best Actress award at the Adolf-Grimme-Preis, in 2005 and 2008, and has won Best Actress at the Bayerischer Fernsehpreis (aka Bavarian TV Awards) in 2000. In 2010 she starred in Die Kommenden Tage alongside Daniel Brühl and earned the nomination for Best Leading Actress at the German Film Awards in 2011. Heerwagen has one brother, Philipp Heerwagen, born in 1983, who is a professional soccer player for the German football team FC Ingolstadt.

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