Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1971-08-13 (Age: 55)
Place of Birth
Düsseldorf, Germany
Heike Makatsch
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 Hausbesuche; two years later, on August 13 1995, she became the host of the German chart show BRAVO TV, aired by RTL II, a position she kept until summer 1996. In 1997 she started hosting her own weekly, late night show titled Heike Makatsch Show. However, due to bad ratings, it was cancelled after only eight episodes. Makatsch first appeared in a movie in 1996, when she starred in Detlev Buck's Männerpension (English: "Jailbirds"); she received the Bavarian Film Award as most talented young actor for her performance. Since then, she has appeared in several German and English language productions.
Filmography (57)
Bibi Blocksberg - Das große Hexentreffen
2025
Akiko, the Flying Monkey
2025
Slava der Hund
2024
Zero
2021
God, You’re Such a Prick
2020
9 Days Awake
2020
Manhunt: Bloody Tango
2019
I've Never Been to New York
2019
Benjamin the Elephant
2019
Kroos
2019
The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
2018
Teenosaurus Rex
2017
Strange Daughter
2017
Speechless
2016
