- Before starting her acting career, she worked as a nurse in East Germany.
- Her first husband Nabil was from Syria.
- Although she and Michael Gwisdek got divorced in 2007, they had separated in the late '90s.
- (1990-) Belongs to the core actors at the Deutsche Theater, Berlin, Germany
- (1999-2004) Liaison with Bernd Eichinger.
- Mother of Robert Gwisdek and Johannes Gwisdek.
- Has a daughter with ex-husband Nabil Harfouch. She grew up with her father and lives in Toronto.
- The father of her second child, a son, was musician Stefan Maaß.
- FilmFest Potsdam '99: festival hommage (1999)
- Member of the 'Official Competition' jury at the 44th Berlin International Film Festival in 1994.
- Was chosen "Actress of the Year" in 1997 by German theater critics.
- Studied acting at the Hochschule für Schauspielkunst "Ernst Busch" in Berlin from 1978 to 1981.
- Has played many important roles on stage such as "Lady Mcbeth" at the Berliner Volksbühne and "Martha" in "Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolfe?" at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin.
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