Biography
Johanna Wokalek (born March 3, 1975) is a German stage and film actress. A student of Klaus Maria Brandauer, she received critical recognition and three newcomer awards for her performance in the play Rose Bernd. Wokalek is best known for her award-winning appearances in the German films Hierankl, Barfuss, and The Baader Meinhof Complex. She received the Bambi award for her portrayal of the Red Army Faction member Gudrun Ensslin in 2008. She played the lead role in the film Pope Joan in 2009. D...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Smell of Burnt Milk
2025
as Marlies
Anna is pregnant and thinks about castrations. Katinka may not be able to become a farmer and wears her bikini in the milking parlor, but grandma's ...

The Exalted
2024
as Anna
Renowned German organist Anna discovers her Latvian husband's involvement in a corruption scandal, shaking the foundation of their life together. Can ...

Jenseits des Rechts
2024
as Cris Blohm
The case of a young man found dead leads Inspector Cris Blohm and her colleague Dennis Eden into the amateur porn scene and to Mia, the daughter of we...

Sisi & I
2023
as Countess Marie Festetics
After an elaborate application process, Empress Elisabeth of Austria hires Countess Irma as her new lady-in-waiting and takes her to her summer reside...

Beckenrand Sheriff
2021
as Trainerin der Wasserballmannschaft
A lifeguard tries by all means to keep his home, an open-air swimming pool, from being closed.

Exit Plan
2019
as Linda
Insurance broker Max's life is about one thing - keeping his walnut brain tumour in check. He eats properly, exercises and lives properly, but all of ...

The German Lesson
2019
as Ditte Nansen
In a small North German village a drama played out during and shortly after the Second World War about duty versus individual conscience and morality.

Wuff
2018
as Cécile
Romantic comedy about the love confusion of four girlfriends, whose lives are properly turned upside down by their four-legged friends. After being ab...

Freedom
2017
as Nora
Nora walks out on her husband Philip and their two children without a word of explanation. She’s driven by an irresistible force. She wants to be free...

In Your Arms
2015
as Julia
When Maria meets Niels for the first time, he comes across as an angry and unsympathetic young man. His chronic illness has been concentrated into a s...

Depeche Mode: Alive in Berlin
2014
as Berlin Girl
‘Alive in Berlin’ includes the full live show, inter-spliced with behind-the-scenes footage, multiple interviews with the band and their fans, and a 2...

The Pursuit of Unhappiness
2012
as Tiffany Blechschmid
Based on the best-selling psychology book by Paul Watzlawick, the film tells the story of Tiffany Blechschmid, a neurotic, moony, superstitious, contr...

The Coming Days
2010
as Cecilia Kuper
Welcome to 2020: The European Union has collapsed following the fourth Gulf War and massive barricades keep illegal immigrants out of cities that are ...

Pope Joan
2009
as Johanna von Ingelheim
A 9th century woman of English extraction born in the German city of Ingelheim disguises herself as a man and rises through the Vatican ranks.

North Face
2008
as Luise Fellner
North Face tells the story of two German climbers Toni Kurz and Andreas Hinterstoisser and their attempt to scale the deadly North Face of the Eiger.

The Baader Meinhof Complex
2008
as Gudrun Ensslin
'Der Baader Meinhof Komplex' depicts the political turmoil in the period from 1967 to the bloody "Deutschen Herbst" in 1977. The movie approaches the ...

Silent Resident
2008
as Anna
At some point in the not-so-distant future, an unnamed European city has evolved into a bizarre dystopian metropolis, whose residents inhabit towering...

Kurz & schwul
2006
Compilation of five shorts, including: The Stretch Marks (Der Schwangerschaftsstreifen), What Grown-Ups Know, Angesichts, Nacht in Wilhelmsburg, & Out...

Don Carlos, Infant von Spanien
2005
as Elisabeth von Valois, seine Gemahlin

Barefoot
2005
as Leila
A hedonistic bachelor - he is his rich family's black sheep - falls for a suicidal mental patient.
Die Kirschkönigin
2004
as Ruth von Roll

A Birthday to Remember
2003
as Lene
Lene Thurner is standing on a train platform in Munich. She has to decide: back to Berlin where she lives, or toward the south, where at the foot of t...

Emilia Galotti
2003
as Emilia Galotti
Das letzte Versteck
2002
as Eva

Aimée & Jaguar
1999
as Ilse
In 1943, while the Allies are bombing Berlin and the Gestapo is purging the capital of Jews, a dangerous love affair blossoms between two women – one ...
Rose Bernd
1998
as Rose
Object Permanence
N/A
as Frau Else
Set in the near future, Brooke Brooks is a former supermodel who becomes a successful lifestyle mogul and is the first person to IPO herself. Having c...
Liebhaberinnen
N/A
as Brigitte
Although hostess Brigitte and life-loving schoolgirl Paula only meet in person once, their fates and lives are closely intertwined.