Gerit Kling

German actress

Stefan Henning
(div. 2016)
Wolfram Becker
(m. 2016)
RelativesAnja Kling (sister)Websitegeritkling.com
Tobias Schulze (left), Astrid Rashed (center) and Gerit Kling (right)on the stage of the Kudammtheater (2009)

Gerit Kling (born 21 April 1965) is a German film, television and voice actress.

Life and work

Kling grew up in Michendorf-Wilhelmshorst near Potsdam with her younger sister, actress Anja Kling. Her first acting role was in Konrad Wolf's Goya at the age of five. From 1982 she studied acting at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin. After a string of engagements at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, at the Theater Brandenburg and at the Mecklenburg State Theatre, she fled with her sister to West Germany shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall. After German reunification, she was on stage at the Staatstheater Nürnberg and the Theater am Kurfüstendamm in Berlin. She also starred in multiple TV shows, where she was often cast as a doctor. At the Störtebeker Festival she played the Duchess van Dooren in 2006.

In March 2008 she was on the cover of the German edition of Playboy.[1][2]

Personal life

Gerit Kling lives with her sister Anja Kling in Michendorf-Wilhelmshorst.

She separated from her husband Stefan Henning at the end of 2015 and got divorced from him in March 2016. In June 2016, she got engaged to Wolfram Becker whom she married on 9 November 2016.[citation needed]

Partial filmography

Movies

  • 1972: Hund über Bord
  • 1988: Ich liebe dich – April! April!
  • 1989: The Break [de]
  • 1989: Grüne Hochzeit [de]
  • 1989: Zwei schräge Vögel
  • 1990: Der Streit um des Esels Schatten
  • 1991: Go Trabi Go
  • 1992: Go Trabi Go 2 – Das war der wilde Osten
  • 2000: The Sea Wolf
  • 2000: Return to Go! [de]
  • 2006: Wo ist Fred?
  • 2013: Kaiserschmarrn

Television

German-language Dubbing

  • Natalie Brown (Kelly Goodweather), in The Strain (since 2014, TV series)

Other works

  • 2004: Unser großes Haus (children's book with CD)

References

  1. ^ Gerit Kling - Vermischtes - Berliner Morgenpost
  2. ^ Gerit Kling - Playboy, Ausgabe 03/2008

External links

  • Gerit Kling at IMDb
  • Official homepage Archived 18 April 2017 at the Wayback Machine
  • Gerit Kling at the German Dubbing Card Index
  • Gerit Kling at the Agentur Wendel
  • Gerit Kling bei In aller Freundschaft at http://www.pressrelations.de/
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  • VIAF
National
  • Germany
People
  • Deutsche Synchronkartei
  • Deutsche Biographie