Biography
Alexandra Maria Lara (born 12 November 1978) is a Romanian-German actress who has appeared in Downfall (2004), Control (2007), Youth Without Youth (2007), The Reader (2008), Rush (2013), and Geostorm (2017).
Known For
Complete Filmography
Bulk
2025
When an over zealous scientist pushes his experiments with string theory too far - his brane explodes. That's "brane" not "brain" - but that means som...

La Syndicaliste
2023
as Julie Depret
The true story of Maureen Kearney, the head union representative of a French multinational nuclear powerhouse. She became a whistleblower, denouncing ...

Alfons Jitterbit – Class Trip Chaos!
2022
as Alfons Mutter
After oversleeping yet again, Alfons manages to catch the bus to his class trip to the Baltic Sea at the last minute. In his luggage: lots of adventur...

Love Thing
2022
as Bettina Bamberger
Red carpet, spotlights, screaming fans, photo- graphers chasing for the best photo, camera teams waiting for interviews - a premiere is about to take ...

The King's Man
2021
as Emily Oxford
As a collection of history's worst tyrants and criminal masterminds gather to plot a war to wipe out millions, one man must race against time to stop ...

Daughters
2021
Martha and Betty have known each other for twenty years and they have decided to breakthrough. But while Martha realizes that her father has only fake...

Asphalt Burning
2020
as Robyn
The third and final instalment in the Burnout trilogy. This time, the road leads through Norway, to Sweden, Denmark and finally Germany to race on the...

The Perfect Secret
2019
as Katja (voice)
Seven friends - three women and four men - meet for dinner. Everyone should put their cell phone on the table. No matter what message comes in - anyon...

The Collini Case
2019
as Johanna
A young lawyer stumbles upon a vast conspiracy while investigating a brutal murder case.

Alfons Zitterbacke
2019
as Louise Zitterbacke
Clumsy peculiar pupil Alfons Zitterbacke dreams of being an astronaut and wreaks havoc anywhere he goes but against all odds wants to proof everyone w...

Sealed Lips
2018
as Antonia
A German communist wrongly accused and sent to a labour camp has to keep her past life hidden for the sake of her and her family’s freedom.

25 km/h
2018
as Ingrid
A road movie about two very different brothers who have not seen each other for 20 years: city manager Christian and cabinetmaker Georg, who never le...

Happy New Year, Colin Burstead
2018
as Hannah
Colin has rented a stately country home for his extended family’s New Year celebrations. He’s the centre of attention until his estranged brother Davi...

Only God Can Judge Me
2018
as Valerie
Ricky spent years behind bars after taking the rap for his brother Rafael and his buddy Latif after a failed robbery. Now, Latif wants to express grat...

Geostorm
2017
as Ute Fassbinder
After an unprecedented series of natural disasters threatened the planet, the world's leaders came together to create an intricate network of satellit...

Four Against the Bank
2016
as Freddie
After losing their respective nest eggs thanks to a bumbling bank employee, three men use him to plot a bold and batty heist to get their money back.

Robby and Toby's Fantastic Voyager
2016
as Sharon Schalldämpfer
One day, robot Robby enters into a life of the most creative little boy, Toby. Robby had been separated from his robot parents when his spaceship cras...

The Most Beautiful Day
2016
as Mona
The overambitious pianist Andi and the more laid back Benno have one thing in common: They will both die soon. So the two of them decide to have the m...

Suite Française
2015
as Leah
France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a stifled existence with her controlling mother-in-law as they...

Rush
2013
as Marlene Lauda
In the 1970s, a rivalry propels race car drivers Niki Lauda and James Hunt to fame and glory — until a horrible accident threatens to end it all.

Move On
2012
as Lena
Move On is a road movie like no other, because it is inspired by film fans from all over Europe! This breath-taking movie directed by Asger Leth featu...

Lullaby Ride
2012
as Livia
Life could be wonderful for Livia and Marco: good-looking, young, and Tim's parents. Tim is nine months old. His screaming every night drives his pare...

Imagine
2012
as Eva
A blind teacher breaks the rules to help a female student rediscover the pleasures of life.

Woman in Love
2011
as Sarah Voss
An actor's career takes a "Tootsie"-like turn when he lets himself be cast as a woman in a movie.

Small World
2010
as Simone Senn
Conrad Lang, a handyman in a rich family - he has been raised like a brother with Thomas, who has the same age -, accidentally puts fire to the big ho...

A Distant Neighborhood
2010
as Anna Verniaz née Zorn
Thomas, a father in his fifties, returns by chance to the town where he grew up. He collapses and wakes up forty years earlier in the body of his teen...

City of Life
2009
as Natalia Moldovan
A privileged young male Arab at odds with his cultural identity and his less fortunate street smart friend; a disillusioned Indian taxi driver who bea...

Farewell
2009
as Jessica Froment
An intricate thriller about an ordinary man thrust into the biggest theft of Soviet information of the Cold War. Right after the Soviet invasion of Af...

The City of Your Final Destination
2009
as Deirdre Rothemund
28-year-old Kansas University doctoral student Omar Razaghi wins a grant to write a biography of Latin American writer Jules Gund. Omar must get throu...

Hinter Kaifeck
2009
as Juliana Lukas

The Reader
2008
as Young Ilana Mather
The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only t...

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

Miracle at St. Anna
2008
as Axis Sally
Miracle at St. Anna chronicles the story of four American soldiers who are members of the all-black 92nd "Buffalo Soldier" Division stationed in Tusca...
Coda: Thirty Years Later
2007
as Self
A behind-the-scenes look at the trials and tribulations of filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola directing his first film in ten years, Youth Without Youth (...

Youth Without Youth
2007
as Veronica / Laura
Professor of language and philosophy Dominic Matei is struck by lightning and ages backwards from 70 to 40 in a week, attracting the world and the Na...

I Really Hate My Job
2007
as Suzie
While anticipating the arrival of a famous Hollywood star, five employees at a mediocre restaurant in London's Soho must deal with rats, arguments and...

Control
2007
as Annik Honoré
The story of Joy Division’s lead singer Ian Curtis, from his schoolboy days in 1973 to his suicide on the eve of the band's first American tour in 198...

Where Is Fred?
2006
as Denise
In order to catch a basketball from the favorite team of his girlfriend's spoiled son, Fred poses as a numb, wheelchair-bound fan. But when he catches...

Offset
2006
as Brîndușa Herghelegiu
The plot focuses on the lives of the soon to be married Stefan, a German working in Romania for a wealthy and eccentric printing company owner, Nicu I...

The Fisherman and His Wife
2005
as Ida
A shared love of fish leads to a variety of romantic predicaments in this offbeat comedy from writer and director Doris Dörrie. Otto (Christian Ulmen)...
Hitlers letzte Tage - Der Film "Der Untergang"
2005
as Self
Documentary about the 2004 movie 'Der Untergang' aka. 'Downfall'

About the Looking for and the Finding of Love
2005
as Venus Morgenstern
Director helmut Dietls and Patric Susskinds illustrate a legendary story of two lovers who cant keep themselves away from death.

Cowgirl
2004
as Johanna 'Paula' Jakobi
Dreamy Paula and her husband Edgar, an insurance salesman, lead a dull, middle-class life in Struvensiel, a fictitious suburb of Hamburg. Paula runs i...

Downfall
2004
as Traudl Junge
In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking fr...

Leise Krieger
2004
It takes time for Lukas to understand who the little boy in his room is. When Lukas listens to him one day, a journey into his inner world of memories...

Trenck - Zwei Herzen gegen die Krone
2003
as Prinzessin Amelie
Prussian general's son Friedrich, Freiherr (German baron) von der Trenck, is an unruly student whose countless affairs make him enemies, but he wins e...

Naked
2002
as Annette
Nackt is the story of three couples, one of which just broke up, one that seems to be about to and one perfectly okay. They are all friends and from t...
Schleudertrauma
2002
as Doreen
Ben detests the visits to his in-laws. His wife Karen suffers as a result. On the drive home, their car skids during an argument and crashes into a br...

Leo & Claire
2002
as Käthe Katzenberger
In 1933 Nuremberg, successful Jewish businessman Leo Katzenberger owns an apartment building and runs a shoe store. A devoted family man, he has a goo...

If It Don't Fit, Use a Bigger Hammer
2002
as Astrid
Frustrated with their lazy new intern, a trio of offbeat builders decide to teach him a lesson with a series of escalating pranks.
Liebe und Verrat
2002
as Marie Irimia
Benno Deukert, a talented young boxer, gets to know Marie. The two fall in love and dream of a future together.

99€ Films
2001
Anyone can hold a mini-DV camera. Anyone can get 99 euros in credit. And everyone has already written a five-minute story in school. So everyone is ac...

Honolulu
2001
as Cleonise
Produced and directed by seven Munich Film School students, Honolulu takes place not in Hawaii, but inside of a rural town just outside of Munich, Ger...

The Tunnel
2001
as Lotte Lohmann
Inspired by true events, Olympic swimmer Harry Melchior defects from East Germany in the 1960s and hatches a daring plot to help his sister and others...
Luftpiraten - 113 Passagiere in Todesangst
2000
as Nicolette

Crazy
2000
as Melanie
Benjamin, a 16-year-old with lousy grades, switches to a boarding school in order to eventually reach grammar school. Adjusting to his new environment...

Vertrauen ist alles
2000
as Jennifer Blankenburg
Jennifer is the capricious daughter of hotel manager Dr. Karl Blankenburg. After all sorts of escapades by the prima donna in Berlin, her father gives...

Just Messing About
2000
as Hanna
A painter learns that leaving the creative life behind is much more complicated than he expected.

Südsee, eigene Insel
1999
as Sandra

Die Bubi Scholz Story
1998
as Renate - jung
Dramatic life of Gustav "Bubi" Scholz, who rose from post-war obscurity and a background in black market dealings to become a celebrated European boxi...

Girl's Trap – Death Comes Online
1998
as Silke Hartmann
17-year-old schoolgirl Silke Hartmann meets a nice young man online. In reality, however, her virtual counterpart, who calls himself Jan, is a serial ...
Das Vorsprechen
1998
as Junge Schauspielerin
German short film from 1998.
Ich begehre dich
1995
as Mädchen am Bahnhof