Biography
Makatsch was born in Düsseldorf, Germany, the daughter of former German national ice hockey team goaltender Rainer Makatsch. She spent several months in New Mexico in 1988 in an effort to improve her English, and later studied politics and sociology at the University of Düsseldorf for four semesters, which was followed by an apprenticeship as a dressmaker until 1994. Her television career started in 1993, when she was hired by music channel VIVA, hosting shows such as Interaktiv and Heikes Hausb...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Bibi Blocksberg - Das große Hexentreffen
2025
as Servera
Bibi, the young witch from Neustadt, is excited: the big international witches' convention is taking place on the Blocksberg and she and her friends S...

Akiko, the Flying Monkey
2025
The monkey child Akiko lives in the zoo, but his family sends him on a big mission: he is supposed to go out into the world and get his relatives out ...

Slava der Hund
2024
as Laura

Zero
2021
as Cynthia Bonsant
Berlin in the near future: A secret meeting takes place between a board member of the dominant internet company "Freemee" and members of the governmen...

God, You’re Such a Prick
2020
as Eva Pape
16-year old Steffi just graduated from high school and is very much looking forward to her class trip to Paris where she has promised her boyfriend Fa...

9 Days Awake
2020
as Liane Stehfest
“9 Days Awake”, the film adaptation of the eponymous novel by Eric Stehfest. Jannik Schümann plays Eric, a junkie who lives to party. He is addicted t...

Zielfahnder: Blutiger Tango
2019
as Gisela Tezloff
LKA-Zielfahnderin Hanna Landauer and her new colleague Röwer travel to Montevideo to provide the couple Tezlaff. It once kidnapped an industrialist an...

I've Never Been to New York
2019
as Lisa Wartberg
In the life of TV presenter Lisa, everything revolves around her talk show, celebrities and the ratings. There is just as little room for love as ther...

Benjamin the Elephant
2019
as Zora Zack
Benjamin and his best friend Otto have to deal with the shrewd Zora Zack and to reach deep into their bag of tricks to save the Newtown Zoo.

Kroos
2019
as Self
Documentary about German football player Toni Kroos. Features a review of his recent career including his time at FC Bayern Munich and Real Madrid as ...

The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
2018
as Frau Reimann
17-year-old Cyril is funny, smart and an all-round good guy. Just his somewhat overlarge nose spoils the picture. On a school trip to Berlin with Roxy...

Teenosaurus Rex
2017
as Sara Wenger
She was sweet, she was cute. But just before her 14th birthday, Daddy’s little princess mutates into a petulant pubescent nightmare. Journalist Hannes...

Strange Daughter
2017
as Hannah
Seventeen-year-old Lena meets 19-year-old Farid, a young Muslim. She has a clear-cut attitude towards his culture and religion: utter rejection. Despi...

Speechless
2016
as mother
A little boy walks alone through a toy store, past people who speak a strange and, for him, incomprehensible language. A young mother finds a way to c...

The Pasta Detectives 3
2016
as Kellnerin
The friends and amateur detectives Rico and Oskar experiencing their last adventure together. Here everything is really only one well, because now the...

Twice New Life
2016
as Ännie Borchert
A husband has to cope with his wife being comatose after an accident.

About a Girl
2015
as Sabine
Charleen is 15, melodramatic, mega depressed, and Kurt Cobain’s biggest fan. Her best friend Isa is getting really boring, her dad is out of the pictu...

Everything is Love
2014
as Clara
Follows the lives of different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic few days before...

Wir machen durch bis morgen früh
2014
as Melanie Struttmann
Ali misses the lavish party nights in Hamburg's Kiez: Ms. Melanie, Baby Bobby and the family's tile company have been his everyday life since he becam...

The Book Thief
2013
as Liesel's mother
While subjected to the horrors of WWII Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. Under the stairs in her home...

Back on Track
2013
as Birgit Averhoff
A former Olympic champion wants to compete in the Berlin Marathon one last time.

The Adventures of Huck Finn
2012
as Tante Polly
Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by...

Sechzehneichen
2012
as Laura Eichhorn
A young couple moves to a gated community (named Sechzehneichen), where soon the creative wife (a photographer) gets bored and the husband joins a sec...

Homecoming
2012
as Katarina Endriss
August Staudenmeyer returns after thirty years absence as a wealthy man in his hometown Gerbersau. First, the successful businessman is received with ...

Tom Sawyer
2011
as Tante Polly
Tom Sawyer has a head full of pranks and drives when he invents is not just a new adventure, preferably around with his best buddy Huck Finn - much to...

The Door
2009
as Gia
A successful artist loses control of his life after his young daughter's death. A chance for a new start appears, but all is not what it seems.

Dr. Hope
2009
as Hope Bridges Adams
Historical Bio-Pic, based on the life of Hope Bridges Adams-Lehmann, being the first female physician and member of womens-lib movement in Germany at ...

Hilde
2009
as Hildegard Knef
A biography of Hildegard Knef, one of Germany's biggest post-war stars.

Schade um das schöne Geld
2008
as Mirabel Blinker
In einem kleinen Dorf an der Küste, wo sich Robbe und Hering Gute Nacht sagen, geht alles seinen friesischen Gang: Der Himmel hängt tief, die Träume h...

Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution
2007
as Frau Unger
Based on a true story, Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution is the tale of a family from Bingley in Yorkshire, who defect to East Germany. Here they find a nig...

Schwesterherz
2007
as Anna

Schwesterherz
2007
Screenplay

Hui Buh: The Castle Ghost
2006
as Leonora Gräfin zu Etepetete
After 500 years, castle ghost Hui Buh finally has some royal residents to haunt, but he soon loses his license to scare and must get recertified.

Margarete Steiff
2005
as Margarete Steiff
Based on the life of German toymaker Margarete Steiff, the movie shows her long way from a 10-year-old girl, confined to a wheelchair, to one of the f...

Keine Lieder über Liebe
2005
as Ellen
As Tobias, a young director, supposes that his girl-friend Ellen had an affair with his brother Markus, front man of "Hansen", one year ago, he decide...

Almost Heaven - Ein Cowgirl auf Jamaika
2005
as Helen Schuster
The young wannabe country singer Helen is terminally ill. Her biggest dream is to sing at the legendary Bluebird Café in Nashville, but through a chai...

A Sound of Thunder
2005
as Alicia Wallenbeck
When a hunter sent back to the prehistoric era runs off the path he must not leave, he causes a chain reaction that alters history in disastrous ways.

Tara Road
2005
as Bernadette
A grieving Connecticut mother temporarily switches houses with a woman in Dublin, Ireland.

Familie auf Bestellung
2004
as Eva
Alex can only accept his uncle's inheritance if he presents his wife and child.

Anatomy 2
2003
as Viktoria
The doctor and soccer player in the leisure time Jo Hauser decides to move to Berlin and be an intern in a famous clinic, expecting to increase his kn...

Das Wunder von Lengede
2003
as Renate Reger
The film is based on the events surrounding the Lengede mining accident in 1963.

Love Actually
2003
as Mia
Eight very different couples deal with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in Londo...

Naked
2002
as Emilia
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...

Resident Evil
2002
as Dr. Lisa Addison
When a virus leaks from a top-secret facility, turning all resident researchers into ravenous zombies and their lab animals into mutated hounds from h...

Nachts im Park
2002
as Katharina Lumis
After the sudden death of his wife, heart surgeon Dr. Steffen Hennings becomes increasingly withdrawn. He works a lot, but he doesn't sleep. A horrifi...

Late Night Shopping
2001
as Madeline
Four friends Sean, Vincent, Lenny and Jody find themselves at something of a deadend. Trapped in a twilight world of permanent night shift work, they ...

A Goddamn Job
2001
as Katinka Sirena
After 1000 years of being God, Jonathan finally wants to get rid of the arduous job and not only has to answer to the tough goddess of the universe fo...

Gripsholm
2000
as Prinzessin
Kurt and Lydia are planning a relaxed vacation at the Gripsholm castle in Sweden . What Lydia does not know is that for Kurt, a well-known publicist, ...
The Announcement
2000
as Rumour
A film about friendship and familiarity masking major secrets. When protagonists Beth and Ross gather all of their best friends together for an unruly...

Longitude
2000
as Queen Charlotte
Parallel stories: 18th century Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea; 20th century Gould is obsessed with restoring it.

Tails You Win, Heads You Lose
1999
as Maja
Two beautiful young women kill men in a villa in Tuscany: Maya and Cora have been friends since childhood. Maya has an alcoholic artist father who des...

Männer und andere Katastrophen
1999
as Judith Kern
The somewhat awkward student Judith is pursued by bankruptcies, bad luck and mishaps. The failed baby sitting with her sister Rebecca ends with a ruin...

Aimée & Jaguar
1999
as Klärchen
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 ...

Das Gelbe vom Ei
1999
as Floris Blinker
Dort, wo unsere Geschichte spielt, wissen nur die Hühner, was Stress bedeutet. Ansonsten geht es auf dem Lande ruhig zu, und so ist es kein Wunder, da...

Love Your Female Neighbor!
1998
as Isolde
Two young and attractive social workers/nuns bring fresh air into a city missionary station, but are also challenged by lust and money, offered by a m...

Am I Beautiful?
1998
as Vera
Between Munich and Seville, the destinies of sixteen characters intertwine and intersect, missing each other or colliding head-on. They are all, witho...

Obsession
1997
as Miriam Auerbach
Two men become entangled in a torrid love affair with the same woman. Pierre is Miriam's longtime lover. John is desperately searching for clues about...

Männerpension
1996
as Maren Krummsieg
A support program brings the two Kanckis Gerd and Steinbock into the care of women. There they are supposed to prove that they are capable of integrat...