Monica Bleibtreu | German actress, 65
Monica Bleibtreu, 65, an actress well-known in the German-speaking world for a prolific range of cinema, television and theater roles, died Thursday in Hamburg, Germany, after a long battle with cancer.
Monica Bleibtreu, 65, an actress well-known in the German-speaking world for a prolific range of cinema, television and theater roles, died Thursday in Hamburg, Germany, after a long battle with cancer.
Ms. Bleibtreu was born in the Austrian capital, Vienna, and made her cinema debut in Ludwig - Requiem for a Virgin King in 1972.
Later roles included appearances in Tom Tykwer's Run Lola Run, which also starred her son, German actor Moritz Bleibtreu; German TV biodrama The Manns - Novel of a Century; and in this year's Knef, a biography of actress and singer Hildegard Knef.
- AP