Heike Makatsch
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.
Known For
Credits
- 2025 · Bibi Blocksberg as Servera
- 2024 · Where's Wanda? as Carlotta Klatt
- 2024 · Akiko, the Flying Monkey as
- 2023 · Slava, der Hund as Laura
- 2023 · German Genius as Heike Makatsch
- 2023 · Tender Hearts as Anja
- 2023 · Intimate. as Alice
- 2022 · Herzogpark as Maria Schreiber
- 2022 · Der König von Palma as Sylie Alder
- 2021 · Zero as Cynthia Bonsant
- 2020 · God, You’re Such a Prick as Eva Pape
- 2020 · Kurzstrecke mit Pierre M. Krause as
- 2020 · 9 Days Awake as Liane Stehfest
- 2019 · Hätten Sie’s gewusst as Self
- 2019 · Zielfahnder: Blutiger Tango as Gisela Tezloff
- 2019 · I've Never Been to New York as Lisa Wartberg
- 2019 · Benjamin the Elephant as Zora Zack
- 2019 · Kroos as Self
- 2018 · The Most Beautiful Girl in the World as Frau Reimann
- 2018 · Late Night Berlin as Self
- 2017 · Abendshow as Self
- 2017 · Teenosaurus Rex as Sara Wenger
- 2017 · Strange Daughter as Hannah
- 2016 · Speechless as mother
- 2016 · The Pasta Detectives 3 as Kellnerin
- 2016 · Twice New Life as Ännie Borchert
- 2015 · About a Girl as Sabine
- 2015 · Wer weiß denn sowas? as Self
- 2015 · Wer weiß denn sowas? as
- 2015 · Wer weiß denn sowas? as Self - Guest
- 2015 · Paare as Patientin
- 2015 · Paare as
- 2014 · Everything is Love as Clara
- 2014 · Wir machen durch bis morgen früh as Melanie Struttmann
- 2013 · The Book Thief as Liesel's mother
- 2013 · Neo Magazin Royale as Guest
- 2013 · Neo Magazin Royale as
- 2013 · Back on Track as Birgit Averhoff
- 2012 · The Adventures of Huck Finn as Tante Polly
- 2012 · Sechzehneichen as Laura Eichhorn
- 2012 · Homecoming as Katarina Endriss
- 2011 · Tom Sawyer as Tante Polly
- 2011 · Klein gegen Groß - Das unglaubliche Duell as Self
- 2009 · The Door as Gia
- 2009 · Dr. Hope as Hope Bridges Adams
- 2009 · Hilde as Hildegard Knef
- 2008 · Schade um das schöne Geld as Mirabel Blinker
- 2007 · Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution as Frau Unger
- 2007 · Schwesterherz as Anna
- 2007 · Inas Nacht as Self
- 2006 · Hui Buh: The Castle Ghost as Leonora Gräfin zu Etepetete
- 2005 · Margarete Steiff as Margarete Steiff
- 2005 · Thadeusz as self
- 2005 · Keine Lieder über Liebe as Ellen
- 2005 · Almost Heaven - Ein Cowgirl auf Jamaika as Helen Schuster
- 2005 · A Sound of Thunder as Alicia Wallenbeck
- 2005 · Tara Road as Bernadette
- 2004 · Familie auf Bestellung as Eva
- 2003 · Anatomy 2 as Viktoria
- 2003 · Das Wunder von Lengede as Renate Reger
- 2003 · Love Actually as Mia
- 2002 · Naked as Emilia
- 2002 · Through the Night with... as Self
- 2002 · Gero von Boehm begegnet... as Self
- 2002 · Resident Evil as Dr. Lisa Addison
- 2002 · Nachts im Park as Katharina Lumis
- 2002 · Die Affäre Semmeling as Silke Semmeling
- 2001 · Late Night Shopping as Madeline
- 2001 · A Goddamn Job as Katinka Sirena
- 2000 · V.I.P. as Self
- 2000 · Gripsholm as Prinzessin
- 2000 · The Announcement as Rumour
- 2000 · Longitude as Queen Charlotte
- 1999 · Tails You Win, Heads You Lose as Maja
- 1999 · Männer und andere Katastrophen as Judith Kern
- 1999 · TV Total as Self
- 1999 · Aimée & Jaguar as Klärchen
- 1999 · Beckmann as Self
- 1999 · Das Gelbe vom Ei as Floris Blinker
- 1998 · Love Your Female Neighbor! as Isolde
- 1998 · Am I Beautiful? as Vera
- 1998 · Die Johannes B. Kerner Show as Self
- 1997 · Obsession as Miriam Auerbach
- 1997 · Leute heute as Self
- 1997 · Taff as self
- 1997 · Tietjen und Bommes as Self
- 1996 · Zimmer frei! as Self
- 1996 · Männerpension as Maren Krummsieg
- 1996 · Interaktiv as Host
- 1995 · Die Harald Schmidt Show as Self
- 1995 · Kulturzeit as self
- 1994 · alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio as Self
- 1991 · Boulevard Bio as Self
- 1991 · DAS! as Self
- 1989 · Blauer Panther as Self
- 1983 · Telestar as Self
- 1982 · Menschen as Self
- 1981 · Wetten, dass..? as Self
- 1979 · Bayerischer Filmpreis as Self
- 1979 · NDR Talk Show as Self
- 1974 · 3 nach 9 as Self
- 1970 · Scene of the Crime as Ellen Berlinger
- 1966 · Goldene Kamera Verleihung as Self
- 1951 · Deutscher Filmpreis as Self
- 1948 · Bambi Awards as Self