Heike Makatsch
Acting • Born 1971-08-13
Biography
Makatsch was born in Düsseldorf, Germany, the daughter of former German national ice hockey team goaltender Rainer Makatsch. She spent several months in New Mexico in 1988 in an effort to improve her English, and later studied politics and sociology at the University of Düsseldorf for four semesters, which was followed by an apprenticeship as a dressmaker until 1994. Her television career started in 1993, when she was hired by music channel VIVA, hosting shows such as Interaktiv and Heikes Hausbesuche; two years later, on August 13 1995, she became the host of the German chart show BRAVO TV, aired by RTL II, a position she kept until summer 1996. In 1997 she started hosting her own weekly, late night show titled Heike Makatsch Show. However, due to bad ratings, it was cancelled after only eight episodes. Makatsch first appeared in a movie in 1996, when she starred in Detlev Buck's Männerpension (English: "Jailbirds"); she received the Bavarian Film Award as most talented young actor for her performance. Since then, she has appeared in several German and English language productions.
Filmography
109 credits
Love Actually
Movie • 2003
Mia
No Songs of Love
Movie • 2005
Ellen
Resident Evil
Movie • 2002
Dr. Lisa Addison
Aimée & Jaguar
Movie • 1999
Klärchen
Anatomy 2
Movie • 2003
Viktoria
Naked
Movie • 2002
Emilia
Gripsholm
Movie • 2000
Prinzessin
A Sound of Thunder
Movie • 2005
Alicia Wallenbeck
Kroos
Movie • 2019
Self
A Goddamn Job
Movie • 2001
Katinka Sirena
Tara Road
Movie • 2005
Bernadette
Schwesterherz
Movie • 2007
Anna
Hilde
Movie • 2009
Hildegard Knef
Hui Buh: The Castle Ghost
Movie • 2006
Leonora Gräfin zu Etepetete
Das Wunder von Lengede
Movie • 2003
Renate Reger
Zero
Movie • 2021
Cynthia Bonsant
Love Your Female Neighbor!
Movie • 1998
Isolde
Margarete Steiff
Movie • 2005
Margarete Steiff
Männerpension
Movie • 1996
Maren Krummsieg
Nachts im Park
Movie • 2002
Katharina Lumis
Akiko, the Flying Monkey
Movie • 2025
Police Chief
Late Night Shopping
Movie • 2001
Madeline
The Door
Movie • 2009
Gia
Das Gelbe vom Ei
Movie • 1999
Floris Blinker
Dr. Hope
Movie • 2009
Hope Bridges Adams
Tails You Win, Heads You Lose
Movie • 1999
Maja
Obsession
Movie • 1997
Miriam Auerbach
Schade um das schöne Geld
Movie • 2008
Mirabel Blinker
Tom Sawyer
Movie • 2011
Tante Polly
Homecoming
Movie • 2012
Katarina Endriss
Sechzehneichen
Movie • 2012
Laura Eichhorn
The Book Thief
Movie • 2013
Liesel's mother
Back on Track
Movie • 2013
Birgit Averhoff
Longitude
Movie • 2000
Queen Charlotte
The Adventures of Huck Finn
Movie • 2012
Tante Polly
Männer und andere Katastrophen
Movie • 1999
Judith Kern
About a Girl
Movie • 2015
Sabine
Wir machen durch bis morgen früh
Movie • 2014
Melanie Struttmann
Everything is Love
Movie • 2014
Clara
Almost Heaven - Ein Cowgirl auf Jamaika
Movie • 2005
Helen Schuster
Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution
Movie • 2007
Frau Unger
Twice New Life
Movie • 2016
Ännie Borchert
Familie auf Bestellung
Movie • 2004
Eva
The Announcement
Movie • 2000
Rumour
The Pasta Detectives 3
Movie • 2016
Kellnerin
Bibi Blocksberg - Das große Hexentreffen
Movie • 2025
Servera
Benjamin the Elephant
Movie • 2019
Zora Zack
Strange Daughter
Movie • 2017
Hannah
Teenosaurus Rex
Movie • 2017
Sara Wenger
Speechless
Movie • 2016
mother
Am I Beautiful?
Movie • 1998
Vera
The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
Movie • 2018
Frau Reimann
I've Never Been to New York
Movie • 2019
Lisa Wartberg
Zielfahnder: Blutiger Tango
Movie • 2019
Gisela Tezloff
9 Days Awake
Movie • 2020
Liane Stehfest
God, You’re Such a Prick
Movie • 2020
Eva Pape
Slava der Hund
Movie • 2024
Laura
Wer weiß denn sowas?
TV • 2015
Self
Herzogpark
TV • 2022
Maria Schreiber
INTIMATE.
TV • 2023
Alice
Hätten Sie’s gewusst
TV • 2019
Self
Inas Nacht
TV • 2007
Self
Die Affäre Semmeling
TV • 2002
Silke Semmeling
Wer weiß denn sowas?
TV • 2015
Die Harald Schmidt Show
TV • 1995
Self
Beckmann
TV • 1999
Self
Wetten, dass..?
TV • 1981
Self
Paare
TV • 2015
Paare
TV • 2015
Patientin
Der König von Palma
TV • 2022
Sylie Alder
Scene of the Crime
TV • 1970
Ellen Berlinger
Through the Night with...
TV • 2002
Self
Where's Wanda?
TV • 2024
Carlotta Klatt
Late Night Berlin
TV • 2018
Self
Leute heute
TV • 1997
Self
Kurzstrecke mit Pierre M. Krause
TV • 2020
German Film Award
TV • 1951
Self
Blauer Panther
TV • 1989
Self
Goldene Kamera
TV • 1984
Self
Bambi
TV • 1948
Self
Telestar
TV • 1983
Self
Bavarian Film Awards
TV • 1979
Self
Zimmer frei!
TV • 1996
Self
Neo Magazin Royale
TV • 2013
Guest
Neo Magazin Royale
TV • 2013
Slava, der Hund
TV • 2023
Laura
The Johannes B. Kerner Show
TV • 1998
Self
alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio
TV • 1994
Self
Tietjen und Bommes
TV • 1997
Self
TV total
TV • 1999
Self
V.I.P.
TV • 2000
Self
Boulevard Bio
TV • 1991
Self
Tender Hearts
TV • 2023
Anja
DAS!
TV • 1991
Self
NDR Talk Show
TV • 1979
Self
3 nach 9
TV • 1974
Self
Gero von Boehm begegnet...
TV • 2002
Self
Menschen
TV • 1982
Self
Klein gegen Groß - Das unglaubliche Duell
TV • 2011
Self
Interaktiv
TV • 1996
Host
Thadeusz
TV • 2005
self
Kulturzeit
TV • 1995
self
Taff
TV • 1997
self
German Genius
TV • 2023
Heike Makatsch
Abendshow
TV • 2017
Self
Wer stiehlt mir die Show?
TV • 2021
Self
Kölner Treff
TV • 1976
Self
Longitude
TV • 2000
Queen Charlotte
Bravo Super Show – Die Gold-Otto-Verleihung
TV • 1994
Self - Host