Birgit Minichmayr (born 3 April 1977) is an Austrian actress born in
Linz, Austria. She studied drama at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in
Vienna. For her work in Maren Ade's film Everyone Else she won Silver
Bear for Best Actress at 59th Berlin International Film Festival. She
is the only Austrian actress to win this award in history of the
festival and the first Austrian actress to win best actress award at a
major European film festival (Cannes, Venice, Berlin) since 1956. She
worked with several major European directors including Michael Haneke,
Tom Tykwer and Jessica Hausner.Minichmayr had her first break with the
Burgtheater in Vienna, where she appeared in numerous plays, including
Der Reigen by Arthur Schnitzler (staged by Sven-Eric Bechtolf),
Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare (staging by Declan
Donnellan) and Der Färber und sein Zwillingsbruder by Johann Nestroy
(staged by Karlheinz Hackl). She made her cinema debut in 2000 as
Barbara Brecht in Jan Schütte's Abschied, playing alongside Josef
Bierbichler and Monica Bleibtreu. In 2000, Minichmayr appeared in
Peter Sämann's television thriller (in the Tatort series), "Böses
Blut". She was awarded the Austrian Nestroy Prize for "Best Young
Talent" in 2000. In 2006 she played Mizzi Kasper, one of the lovers
from Crownprince Rudolf in the movie Kronprinz Rudolfs letzte Liebe
[de]. A year later, Minichmayr played the fool in Luc Bondy's
acclaimed staging of Shakespeare's King Lear, always at the
Burgtheater.Minichmayr currently lives in Munich and Vienna. She
speaks English and has acted in several international and English
language productions. Among the directors she worked with were István
Szabó, Götz Spielmann, Tom Tykwer, Oliver Hirschbiegel, Robert
Dornhelm, and Doris Dörrie. She is also an accomplished vocalist, and
has been recorded several times, though she has always made acting her
primary focus.
Linz, Austria. She studied drama at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in
Vienna. For her work in Maren Ade's film Everyone Else she won Silver
Bear for Best Actress at 59th Berlin International Film Festival. She
is the only Austrian actress to win this award in history of the
festival and the first Austrian actress to win best actress award at a
major European film festival (Cannes, Venice, Berlin) since 1956. She
worked with several major European directors including Michael Haneke,
Tom Tykwer and Jessica Hausner.Minichmayr had her first break with the
Burgtheater in Vienna, where she appeared in numerous plays, including
Der Reigen by Arthur Schnitzler (staged by Sven-Eric Bechtolf),
Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare (staging by Declan
Donnellan) and Der Färber und sein Zwillingsbruder by Johann Nestroy
(staged by Karlheinz Hackl). She made her cinema debut in 2000 as
Barbara Brecht in Jan Schütte's Abschied, playing alongside Josef
Bierbichler and Monica Bleibtreu. In 2000, Minichmayr appeared in
Peter Sämann's television thriller (in the Tatort series), "Böses
Blut". She was awarded the Austrian Nestroy Prize for "Best Young
Talent" in 2000. In 2006 she played Mizzi Kasper, one of the lovers
from Crownprince Rudolf in the movie Kronprinz Rudolfs letzte Liebe
[de]. A year later, Minichmayr played the fool in Luc Bondy's
acclaimed staging of Shakespeare's King Lear, always at the
Burgtheater.Minichmayr currently lives in Munich and Vienna. She
speaks English and has acted in several international and English
language productions. Among the directors she worked with were István
Szabó, Götz Spielmann, Tom Tykwer, Oliver Hirschbiegel, Robert
Dornhelm, and Doris Dörrie. She is also an accomplished vocalist, and
has been recorded several times, though she has always made acting her
primary focus.
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