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Alexandra Maria Lara
Lara in 2020
BornAlexandra Maria Plătăreanu
(1978-11-12) 12 November 1978 (age 46)
Bucharest, Romania
OccupationActress
Years active1994–present
Spouse Sam Riley ​(m. 2009)​
Children1

Alexandra Maria Lara (née Plătăreanu; 12 November 1978) is a Romanian-German actress who has appeared in Downfall (2004), Control (2007), Youth Without Youth (2007), The Reader (2008), Rush (2013), and Geostorm (2017).

Early life

Born in Bucharest, Lara is the only child of Valentin Plătăreanu, an actor, and his wife, Doina. In 1983, her family fled to West Germany to escape Nicolae Ceaușescu's regime in Communist Romania. Although the family had planned to emigrate to Canada, they settled in Freiburg im Breisgau, before eventually moving to Berlin.

Career

By sixteen, she was playing lead roles in various television dramas; since then, she has appeared in films, including as Traudl Junge, Adolf Hitler's secretary, in the Academy Award-nominated 2004 film Downfall; following this, Francis Ford Coppola wrote her a letter and gave her a leading role in Youth Without Youth (2007).

In 2007 she also appeared as Belgian journalist Annik Honoré in the film Control, the Ian Curtis biopic. In 2008, she served as a member of the Cannes Film Festival jury. She has also appeared in several French productions, including Napoléon and L'Affaire Farewell. She appeared in The Reader and Der Baader Meinhof Komplex which were both nominated for the 81st Academy Awards, for best picture and best foreign language film, respectively.

In 2018 she starred with her real life husband Sam Riley in Happy New Year, Colin Burstead by Ben Wheatley, playing his German girlfriend.

Personal life

Lara with husband Sam Riley at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival on 20 February 2020

In August 2009, Lara married English actor Sam Riley, with whom she acted in the films Control and Suite Française. In January 2014, she gave birth to their first child, a boy.

Filmography

References

  1. "Alexandra Maria Lara BIO". imaginethefilm.org. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
  2. Alexandra Maria Lara at IMDb
  3. "Happy New Year, Colin Burstead (2018) - IMDb".
  4. "Sam Riley is married to Alexandra Maria Lara". Zimbio. Archived from the original on 11 October 2012. Retrieved 20 April 2011.
  5. "Sam Riley's wife pregnant | Showbiz | News | Daily Express". Express.co.uk. 8 September 2013. Retrieved 16 June 2014.
  6. "Alexandra Maria Lara: Baby-Geschlecht bekannt!". Promiflash.de. 6 January 2014. Retrieved 16 June 2014.

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