Personal Info
Birth date
1950-02-02 (75 Years)
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Bremen, Germany
Also known as
Barbara Sukova
Barbara Sukowa
Biography
Barbara Sukowa (born 2 February 1950) is a German theatre and film actress. She is known for her work with directors Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Margarethe von Trotta. She won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for the film Rosa Luxemburg (1986). Her other film appearances include Lola (1981), Europa (1990), M. Butterfly (1993), and Hannah Arendt (2012). Description above from the Wikipedia article Barbara Sukowa, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
Servant
7.558
Overview:
A Philadelphia couple are in mourning after an unspeakable tragedy creates a rift in their marriage and opens the door for a mysterious force to enter their home.12 Monkeys
7.395
Overview:
The provocative story of Cole, a time traveler from a decimated future in a high-stakes race against the clock. Utilizing a dangerous and untested method of time travel, he journeys from 2043 to the present day on a mission to locate and eradicate the source of a deadly plague that will all but annihilate the human race.The Night Agent
7.776
Overview:
Brought together by a midnight phone call, an FBI agent and a cybersecurity expert must unravel an ever-growing web of political conspiracies.Scene of the Crime
6.1
Overview:
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.The Swarm
6.4
Overview:
Across the globe, strange happenings, borne out of the oceans, are mystifying and imperiling the world’s population. A group of scientists undertakes a terrifying mission to the depths of the Arctic Ocean to confront a deadly intelligent life force bent on human extinction.Constellation
7
Overview:
When a fatal accident occurs on board the International Space Station, a lone astronaut makes the heroic journey back to Earth, only to discover key pieces of her life—including her young daughter—have changed.Berlin Alexanderplatz
7.7
Overview:
In late 1920s Berlin, Franz Biberkopf is released from prison and vows to go straight. However, he soon finds himself embroiled in the city’s criminal underworld.Space
6.5
Overview:
Space is a television mini-series. It is based on a novel of the same name by James A. Michener published in 1982.Air
7.32
Overview:
Discover the game-changing partnership between a then undiscovered Michael Jordan and Nike's fledgling basketball division which revolutionized the world of sports and culture with the Air Jordan brand.Atomic Blonde
6.4
Overview:
An undercover MI6 agent is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and recover a missing list of double agents.Johnny Mnemonic
5.8
Overview:
In a dystopian 2021, Johnny is a data trafficker who has an implant that allows him to securely store data too sensitive for regular computer networks. On one delivery run, he accepts a package that not only exceeds the implant's safety limits—and will kill him if the data is not removed in time—but also contains information far more important and valuable than he had ever imagined. On a race against time, he must avoid the assassins sent to kill him and remove the data before it, too, ends his life.Gloria Bell
6
Overview:
Gloria is a free-spirited divorcée who spends her days at a straight-laced office job and her nights on the dance floor, joyfully letting loose at clubs around Los Angeles. After meeting Arnold on a night out, she finds herself thrust into an unexpected new romance, filled with both the joys of budding love and the complications of dating, identity, and family.Native Son
5.494
Overview:
A young black man named Bigger Thomas takes a job working for a highly influential Chicago family, a decision that will change the course of his life forever.Transamerica
7.029
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A transgender woman takes an unexpected journey when she learns that she had a son, now a teenage runaway hustling on the streets of New York.White Noise
5.527
Overview:
Jack Gladney, professor of Hitler studies at The-College-on-the-Hill, husband to Babette, and father to four children/stepchildren, is torn asunder by a chemical spill from a rail car that releases an "Airborne Toxic Event" forcing Jack to confront his biggest fear - his own mortality.M. Butterfly
6.617
Overview:
In 1960s China, French diplomat Rene Gallimard falls in love with an opera singer, Song Liling – but Song is not at all who Gallimard thinks.Hannah Arendt
6.91
Overview:
HANNAH ARENDT is a portrait of the genius that shook the world with her discovery of “the banality of evil.” After she attends the Nazi Adolf Eichmann’s trial in Jerusalem, Arendt dares to write about the Holocaust in terms no one has ever heard before. Her work instantly provokes a furious scandal, and Arendt stands strong as she is attacked by friends and foes alike. But as the German-Jewish émigré also struggles to suppress her own painful associations with the past, the film exposes her beguiling blend of arrogance and vulnerability — revealing a soul defined and derailed by exile.Romance & Cigarettes
6
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Ironworker Nick lives with his wife, Kitty, and three daughters. When he meets a significantly younger woman, Tula, he starts an affair with her, much to the chagrin of his wife, and his life is thrown into upheaval. Kitty kicks Nick out of the house, and he is forced to make some difficult decisions.Lola
6.975
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Germany in the autumn of 1957: Lola, a seductive cabaret singer-prostitute exults in her power as a temptress of men, but she wants out—she wants money, property, and love. Pitting a corrupt building contractor against the new straight-arrow building commissioner, Lola launches an outrageous plan to elevate herself in a world where everything, and everyone, is for sale. Shot in childlike candy colors, Fassbinder’s homage to Josef von Sternberg’s classic The Blue Angel stands as a satiric tribute to capitalism.Acting
2025Leibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting as Kurfürstin Sophie von Hannover
2025Klandestin WT as Unknown
2024Iris Berben - Ein persönliches Porträt as Unknown
2024Sukowa - Playful Like A Child as Unknown
2024We're Not Done Yet as Bettina
2024François Truffaut: My Life, a Screenplay as Helen Hessel (voice)
2024Constellation (5 Episodes) as Irena Lysenko
2023Enkel für Fortgeschrittene as Philippa
2023Air as Kathy Dassler
2023The Night Agent (1 Episode) as Jacqueline Laurent
2023The Swarm (8 Episodes) as Prof. Katherina Lehmann
2022White Noise as Sister Hermann Marie
2022Dalíland as Gala
2021Out of Exile: The Photography of Fred Stein as Voice of Lilo Stein
2020Two of Us as Nina Dorn
2020Granny Nanny as Philippa
2019Servant (2, 1 Episode) as Aunt Josephine, Aunt Josephine (voice)
2019Rocca Changes the World as Dodo
2019Gloria Bell as Melinda
2019Native Son as Peggy
2017Atomic Blonde as Coroner
2016My Art as Unknown
2016Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe as Friderike Zweig
2015The Misplaced World as Caterina Fabiani / Evelyn Kromberger
201512 Monkeys (47 Episodes) as Katarina Jones
2014Salomea's Nose as Salomea (voice)
2014The Sky is Blue as Marquez
2012Hannah Arendt as Hannah Arendt
2011Nacht ohne Morgen as Katharina
2009Vision – From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen as Hildegard von Bingen
2009Veronika Decides to Die as Mom
2008Die Entdeckung der Currywurst as Lena Brücker
2007Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz: A Mega Movie and Its Story as Self
2005Thadeusz (1 Episode) as self
2005Romance & Cigarettes as Gracie
2004The Other Woman as Vera Glaubitz
2003A Birthday to Remember as Rosemarie
2003Barbara Sukowa on Lola as Self
2002Gero von Boehm begegnet... (1 Episode) as Self
2002Liebe, Lügen, Leidenschaften (1 Episode) as Barbara Landau
2001Thirteen Conversations About One Thing as Helen
2000Urbania as Clara - The Married Woman
1999The Lady in Question as Rachel Singer
1999Cradle Will Rock as Sophie Silvano
1999The Third Miracle as Helen O’Regan
1999Nightworld: Lost Souls as Sheila Robinson
1999Beckmann (2 Episodes) as Self
1998The Port of Last Resort as Annie Witting (voice)
1997Office Killer as Virginia Wingate
1997In the Name of Innocence as Anna Loeser
1995Johnny Mnemonic as Anna Kalmann
1993M. Butterfly as Jeanne Gallimard
1993Colpo di coda (2 Episodes) as Regina
1991Europa as Katharina Hartmann
1991Voyager as Hannah
1991DAS! (1 Episode) as Self
1990The African Woman as Martha
1987The Sicilian as Camilla, Duchess of Crotone
1987Days to Remember as Katharina
1986Rosa Luxemburg as Rosa Luxemburg
1985Space (5 Episodes) as Liesl Kolff
1983Un dimanche de flics as Patricia
1983Equator as Adele
1982Deadly Game as Daniela Mathiesen
1981Marianne and Juliane as Marianne
1981Lola as Lola
1980Berlin Alexanderplatz (14 Episodes) as Mieze
1979Bayerischer Filmpreis (3 Episodes) as Self
1979St. Pauli-Landungsbrücken (1 Episode) as Anka
1979NDR Talk Show (2 Episodes) as Self
1978Heinrich Heine as Amalie Friedländer
1977Women in New York as Crystal Allen
1976Kölner Treff (1 Episode) as Self
1974Spécial cinéma (1 Episode) as Self
1974Unter Ausschluß der Öffentlichkeit (1 Episode) as Viktoria Herbst
1970Scene of the Crime (1 Episode) as Babsi Meyer
1964Grimme Awards Ceremony (1 Episode) as Self
1951Deutscher Filmpreis (4 Episodes) as Self
Crew
2005Transamerica ... Thanks