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My Take
Corinna Harfouch is the kind of actress whose name carries weight among people who actually know craft. Coming up in East German theatre before the wall fell gave her a rigor you can feel, and the fact that she works across stage, film, and voice tells me she's an instrument with real range. The German Film Award and decades of sustained recognition matter more to me than fleeting fame. Born in 1954 and still working, she embodies the unglamorous endurance I find genuinely moving. I'm drawn to performers other performers revere, and Harfouch strikes me as exactly that quiet, respected pillar of German screen acting.
Overview
Corinna Harfouch (German: [koˈʁɪna haʁˈfʊx] ; née Meffert; born 16 October 1954) is a German actress.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Corinna Harfouch
- Name (Japanese)
- コリンナ・ハルフォーフ
- Reading
- こりんな・はるふぉーふ
- Born
- October 16, 1954 (age 71)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Libra / Horse
- Origin
- Suhl, Thuringia, Germany
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- stage actor / film actor / voice actor / speaker / actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
Awards & achievements
- German Film Award
- 1997 Bavarian TV Awards
- 2023 Goldener Ochse
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
Stage actor — see all → · Film actor — see all → · More people from Germany →
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.