--- name: "Antje Traue" canonical: "https://film.one/person/antje-traue" fi1m_id: "antje-traue" imdb_id: "nm1662644" tmdb_id: 43202 wikidata_id: "Q62648" roles: ["Actor"] born: "18 January 1981" reviewed_on_fi1m: 3 average_fi1m_score: 48 average_as: "actor" average_over: 3 updated: "2026-10-05T13:27:28.809840+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Antje Traue ## Identity Antje Traue - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/antje-traue - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** antje-traue - **IMDb ID:** nm1662644 - **TMDB ID:** 43202 - **Wikidata ID:** Q62648 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antje_Traue, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q62648, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1662644/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/43202 Actor. Born 18 January 1981 in Mittweida, Germany. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 18 January 1981, Mittweida, Germany - **Active:** 2013–present - **Frequently works with:** [Michael Shannon](https://film.one/person/michael-shannon.md) - **Average Fi1m score:** 48, as actor, over 3 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 48 (2), 2020s 50 (1) - **Fi1m against the critics:** 48 to 47 across 3 titles - **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 2 under 60 - **Lead roles:** 0 of 3 acting credits billed first or second - **Genres:** Adventure 3, Action 2, Science Fiction 2, Fantasy 1 - **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films - **Box office:** $1,054m across 3 films with figures - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antje_Traue, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q62648, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1662644/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/43202 ## Streaming the US now - **HBO Max:** [*Man of Steel*](https://film.one/film/man-of-steel.md) (60), [*The Flash*](https://film.one/film/the-flash.md) (50) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Antje Traue > In *Man of Steel* Antje Traue's Faora-Ul fights with economy and seems to enjoy it, and she is the better enemy on screen. *The Flash* brought her back ten years later and gave her less. The thing to watch in *Man of Steel* (2013) is how little Antje Traue does. Michael Shannon's Zod shouts, and the city falls down around him, and Faora-Ul stands slightly behind, waits, and then moves only as far as the job requires. We wrote at the time that she fights with economy and seems to enjoy it, and that is still the right description: she is a soldier who finds the work pleasant. In a film that mistakes volume for seriousness she is the one performer who understood that the frightening thing is calm. We liked her more than anything in the last hour, and we liked the last hour very little. The stillness is trained. She was an artistic gymnast from six, and at sixteen she was on stage in a touring hip-hop musical that took her across Europe and to New York. Her first screen part came in a German television film in 2000, and German film and television kept her for most of the decade. The turn was *Pandorum* (2009), Christian Alvart's science fiction thriller, in which she played Nadia opposite Ben Foster and was seen, for the first time, by people who did not speak German. Zack Snyder's Faora followed four years later, and after it came *Seventh Son* (2014) as Bony Lizzie, *Woman in Gold* (2015) as Adele Bloch-Bauer, and the German time-travel series *Dark* (2017–2020), in which she played Agnes Nielsen. She was still working in 2025, with *Fall for Me*. What she does well is the contained woman: the engineered soldier, the witch, the person who has decided and will not be talked out of it. She has said of Faora that she had to empty her mind of doubts in order to become fearless, because the character has a one-track mind and is trained to attack, and the four months of training and dieting she put in are visible in how the part moves. What she is rarely given is a second thing to play once the first is established. *The Flash* (2023) is the plain example. Zod lands in a flat desert under a grey sky, Shannon gives a slower and sadder version of the earlier performance, and Traue, as we said, gets less than that: she is there to be recognised and then to be in the fight. That is a complaint about the films rather than the actor. The English-language pictures tend to keep her in the second row and let the costume do the acting; the lead parts have mostly been at home, in German. Someone should write her a part in which the stillness has to break. Until then, *Man of Steel* is the one to watch, and watch her rather than the buildings. ## Biography Antje Traue is a German actress. She was born on 18 January 1981 in Mittweida, Germany. She began performing on stage at sixteen and toured for four years in the hip hop musical *West End Opera*. Her first English-language film role was in *Pandorum* (2009). Traue is known internationally for playing Faora-Ul in *Man of Steel* (2013) and *The Flash* (2023), and Agnes Nielsen in the series *Dark* (2017). Other credits include *Seventh Son* (2014), *Woman in Gold* (2015) and *Criminal* (2016). *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, dc.fandom.com.* ## On Fi1m (3) - *The Flash* (2023), Fi1m 50, as Faora-Ul — [page](https://film.one/film/the-flash.md) - *Seventh Son* (2014), Fi1m 35, as Bony Lizzie — [page](https://film.one/film/seventh-son.md) - *Man of Steel* (2013), Fi1m 60, as Faora-Ul — [page](https://film.one/film/man-of-steel.md) ## Complete filmography (45) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Fall for Me* (2025), as Bea - *Long Story Short* (2025), as Eva - *Im Rausch* (2024), as Dr. Brandt - *Helgoland 513* (2024), series, as Daniela - *The Flash* (2023), as Faora-Ul — Fi1m 50, [page](https://film.one/film/the-flash.md) - *Herzogpark* (2022), series, as Elisabeth von Lynden - *Die Bilderkriegerin - Anja Niedringhaus* (2022), as Anja Niedringhaus - *Breaking Point* (2021), series, as Eva - *An seiner Seite* (2021), as Viola Frankenberg - *The House* (2021), as Ellen - *King of Ravens* (2020), as Alina - *My Mother's Girlfriend* (2019), as Rosalie - *Dead End* (2019), series, as Emma Kugel - *Blame Game* (2019), as Aurice Köhler - *Balloon* (2018), as Kindergarten Teacher (Ulrike Piehl) - *Playmaker* (2018), as Vera - *Dark* (2017), series, as Agnes Nielsen — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/dark.md) - *Bye Bye Germany* (2017), as Sara Simon - *Oasis* (2017), series, as Sara Keller - *Oasis* (2017), as Sara Keller - *Old Agent Men* (2017), as Paula Kern - *Four Against the Bank* (2016), as Elisabeth Zollner - *Tempel* (2016), series, as Eva - *Close to the Enemy* (2016), series, as Bergit Mentz - *Criminal* (2016), as Elsa Mueller - *Fatal News* (2016), series, as Giselle Neumayer - *Despite the Falling Snow* (2016), as Marina Rinskaya - *Mordkommission Berlin 1* (2015), as Irma Berger - *The Valley* (2015), series, as Hanna Zepter - *Woman in Gold* (2015), as Adele Bloch-Bauer - *Seventh Son* (2014), as Bony Lizzie — Fi1m 35, [page](https://film.one/film/seventh-son.md) - *Outlier* (2014), Actor - *Journey of Discovery: Creating Man of Steel* (2013), Actor - *Man of Steel* (2013), as Faora-Ul — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/man-of-steel.md) - *Annika Bengtzon: Crime Reporter* (2012), series, as Kitten - *Nobel's Last Will* (2012), as Kitten - *5 Days of War* (2011), as Zoe - *Pandorum* (2009), as Nadia - *Berlin am Meer* (2007), as Estelle - *Goldjunge* (2006), as Manuela - *Der Staatsanwalt* (2005), series, as Sandra Thewes - *Kleinruppin Forever* (2004), as Ramona - *SOKO Köln* (2003), series, as Diana Wrobel - *Polizeiruf 110* (1971), series, as Anne Gerling - *Scene of the Crime* (1970), series, as Juliane Modica, Zoe ## Gallery - ![The cast of Man of Steel at Taormina Film Fest 2013, Italian premiere of the movie.In front: the director Zack Snayder (with white dress is coming) and the inte](https://film.one/media/person/589/gallery-b1544fd5d9c6.jpg) The cast of Man of Steel at Taormina Film Fest 2013, Italian premiere of the movie.In front: the director Zack Snayder (with white dress is coming) and the inte — Kasper2006, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/2013_Taormina_Film_Fest.jpg/1280px-2013_Taormina_Film_Fest.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Antje Traue at a Pandorum panel discussion at WonderCon 2009.](https://film.one/media/person/589/gallery-ae607328aa12.jpg) Antje Traue at a Pandorum panel discussion at WonderCon 2009. — BrokenSphere, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Antje_Traue_at_WonderCon_2009.JPG/1280px-Antje_Traue_at_WonderCon_2009.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Antje Traue at the 2013 San Diego Comic Con International in San Diego, California.](https://film.one/media/person/589/gallery-07683dd909d9.jpg) Antje Traue at the 2013 San Diego Comic Con International in San Diego, California. — Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Antje_Traue_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg/1280px-Antje_Traue_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Actress Antje Traue on the red carpet of the Berlinale 2017 opening film](https://film.one/media/person/589/gallery-d7f04f440869.jpg) Actress Antje Traue on the red carpet of the Berlinale 2017 opening film — Martin Kraft, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/MJK30855_Antje_Traue_%28Berlinale_2017%29.jpg/1280px-MJK30855_Antje_Traue_%28Berlinale_2017%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Antje Traue](https://film.one/media/person/589/gallery-7763455f608a.jpg) Antje Traue — Image via TMDB - 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