---
name: "Heike Makatsch"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/heike-makatsch"
fi1m_id: "heike-makatsch"
imdb_id: "nm0538443"
tmdb_id: 7059
wikidata_id: "Q62510"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "13 August 1971"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 57
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-22T21:21:43.648902+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."
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# Heike Makatsch

## Identity

Heike Makatsch

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/heike-makatsch
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** heike-makatsch
- **IMDb ID:** nm0538443
- **TMDB ID:** 7059
- **Wikidata ID:** Q62510
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heike_Makatsch, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q62510, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0538443/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/7059

Actor. Born 13 August 1971 in Düsseldorf, Germany.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 13 August 1971, Düsseldorf, Germany
- **Active:** 2002–2003
- **Berlin International Film Festival:** 1 Berlin prize (1 won)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 57, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heike_Makatsch, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q62510, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0538443/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/7059

## Coming up

- *Komplizinnen - Vernunft ist keine Lösung* (2027-01-21)

## Biography

Heike Makatsch is a German actress born in Düsseldorf in 1971. She began her career in television, hosting music shows on VIVA from 1993 and later BRAVO TV on RTL II until 1996.

Makatsch made her film debut in 1996 in Detlev Buck's *Männerpension*, receiving the Bavarian Film Award for most talented young actor. She is known for her roles as Lisa Addison in *Resident Evil* (2002), Mia in *Love Actually* (2003), Liesel's mother in *The Book Thief* (2013), and appearances in *A Sound of Thunder* (2005) and *Anatomy 2* (2003).

She has worked in both German and English-language productions and received further recognition including Bambi awards and a Goldene Kamera.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Love Actually* (2003), Fi1m 58, as Mia — [page](https://film.one/film/love-actually.md)
- *Resident Evil* (2002), Fi1m 56, as Lisa — [page](https://film.one/film/resident-evil-2002.md)

## Complete filmography (69)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Komplizinnen - Vernunft ist keine Lösung* (2027), Actor
- *Bibi Blocksberg - Das große Hexentreffen* (2025), as Servera
- *Akiko, the Flying Monkey* (2025), as Police Chief
- *Where's Wanda?* (2024), series, as Carlotta Klatt
- *Slava der Hund* (2024), as Laura
- *Slava, der Hund* (2023), series, as Laura
- *German Genius* (2023), series, as Heike Makatsch
- *Tender Hearts* (2023), series, as Anja
- *INTIMATE.* (2023), series, as Alice
- *Herzogpark* (2022), series, as Maria Schreiber
- *Der König von Palma* (2022), series, as Sylie Alder
- *Zero* (2021), as Cynthia Bonsant
- *God, You’re Such a Prick* (2020), as Eva Pape
- *9 Days Awake* (2020), as Liane Stehfest
- *Manhunt: Bloody Tango* (2019), as Gisela Tezloff
- *I've Never Been to New York* (2019), as Lisa Wartberg
- *Benjamin the Elephant* (2019), as Zora Zack
- *The Most Beautiful Girl in the World* (2018), as Frau Reimann
- *Teenosaurus Rex* (2017), as Sara Wenger
- *Strange Daughter* (2017), as Hannah
- *Speechless* (2016), as mother
- *The Pasta Detectives 3* (2016), as Kellnerin
- *Twice New Life* (2016), as Ännie Borchert
- *About a Girl* (2015), as Sabine
- *Paare* (2015), series, as Patientin
- *Everything is Love* (2014), as Clara
- *Wir machen durch bis morgen früh* (2014), as Melanie Struttmann
- *The Book Thief* (2013), as Liesel's Mother
- *Back on Track* (2013), as Birgit Averhoff
- *The Adventures of Huck Finn* (2012), as Tante Polly
- *Sechzehneichen* (2012), as Laura Eichhorn
- *Homecoming* (2012), as Katarina Endriss
- *Tom Sawyer* (2011), as Tante Polly
- *The Door* (2009), as Gia
- *Dr. Hope* (2009), as Hope Bridges Adams
- *Hilde* (2009), as Hildegard Knef
- *Schade um das schöne Geld* (2008), as Mirabel Blinker
- *Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution* (2007), as Frau Unger
- *Schwesterherz* (2007), as Anna · Screenplay
- *Hui Buh: The Castle Ghost* (2006), as Leonora Gräfin zu Etepetete
- *Margarete Steiff* (2005), as Margarete Steiff
- *No Songs of Love* (2005), as Ellen
- *Almost Heaven - Ein Cowgirl auf Jamaika* (2005), as Helen Schuster
- *A Sound of Thunder* (2005), as Alicia Wallenbeck
- *Tara Road* (2005), as Bernadette
- *Familie auf Bestellung* (2004), as Eva
- *Anatomy 2* (2003), as Viktoria
- *Das Wunder von Lengede* (2003), as Renate Reger
- *The Miracle of Lengede* (2003), series, as Renate Reger
- *Love Actually* (2003), as Mia — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/love-actually.md)
- *Naked* (2002), as Emilia
- *Resident Evil* (2002), as Lisa — Fi1m 56, [page](https://film.one/film/resident-evil-2002.md)
- *Nachts im Park* (2002), as Katharina Lumis
- *Die Affäre Semmeling* (2002), series, as Silke Semmeling
- *Late Night Shopping* (2001), as Madeline
- *A Goddamn Job* (2001), as Katinka Sirena
- *Gripsholm* (2000), as Prinzessin
- *The Announcement* (2000), as Rumour
- *Longitude* (2000), as Queen Charlotte
- *Longitude* (2000), series, as Queen Charlotte
- *Tails You Win, Heads You Lose* (1999), as Maja
- *Männer und andere Katastrophen* (1999), as Judith Kern
- *Aimée & Jaguar* (1999), as Klärchen
- *Das Gelbe vom Ei* (1999), as Floris Blinker
- *Love Your Female Neighbor!* (1998), as Isolde
- *Am I Beautiful?* (1998), as Vera
- *Obsession* (1997), as Miriam Auerbach
- *Männerpension* (1996), as Maren Krummsieg
- *Scene of the Crime* (1970), series, as Ellen Berlinger

## Gallery

- ![Heike Makatsch](https://film.one/media/person/433534/gallery-332d42ea58c8.jpg) Heike Makatsch — Martin Kraft, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/MJKr01619_Heike_Makatsch_%28NRW-Empfang%2C_Berlinale_2020%29.jpg/1280px-MJKr01619_Heike_Makatsch_%28NRW-Empfang%2C_Berlinale_2020%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Heike Makatsch at the opening 75th Berlin International Film Festival (2025)](https://film.one/media/person/433534/gallery-bc22df464305.jpg) Heike Makatsch at the opening 75th Berlin International Film Festival (2025) — Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Heike_Makatsch-2165.jpg/1280px-Heike_Makatsch-2165.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![German actress Heike Makatsch Opening of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival at the Berlinale Palast (2015)](https://film.one/media/person/433534/gallery-0faa3837feee.jpg) German actress Heike Makatsch Opening of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival at the Berlinale Palast (2015) — Siebbi, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Heike_Makatsch.jpg/1280px-Heike_Makatsch.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![German actress Heike Makatsch, Opening of the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival. (2012)](https://film.one/media/person/433534/gallery-01b918684619.jpg) German actress Heike Makatsch, Opening of the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival. (2012) — Siebbi, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d1/Heike_Makatsch_%28Berlinale_2012%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Heike Makatsch](https://film.one/media/person/433534/gallery-633a86edccbd.jpg) Heike Makatsch — Image via TMDB
- ![Heike Makatsch beim Hessischen Film- und Kinopreis 2012](https://film.one/media/person/433534/gallery-fe8d41a91c30.jpg) Heike Makatsch beim Hessischen Film- und Kinopreis 2012 — JCS, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Hessischer_Film-_und_Kinopreis_2012_-_Heike_Makatsch_1.jpg/1280px-Hessischer_Film-_und_Kinopreis_2012_-_Heike_Makatsch_1.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Heike Makatsch on the red carpet of the Berlinale 2017 opening film](https://film.one/media/person/433534/gallery-a36b0dd12d54.jpg) Heike Makatsch 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/e/e8/MJK3_Heike_Makatsch_%28Berlinale_2017%29-31.jpg/1280px-MJK3_Heike_Makatsch_%28Berlinale_2017%29-31.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Berlin International Film Festival — 1 won

- 1997: Berliner Bär (won)

### Other awards — 3 won, 1 nominated

- Romy 2020: Romy (won)
- Bavarian TV Awards 2006: Bavarian TV Awards (won), for *Margarete Steiff*
- Grimme-Preis 2004: Grimme-Preis (won), for *A Light in Dark Places*
- Jameson People's Choice Award for Best Actress 2001: Jameson People's Choice Award for Best Actress (nominated), for *Gripsholm*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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