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Barbara Sukowa has enjoyed a distinguished career on the stage in Europe, but is best known in the United States for her powerful performances in latter-day masterpieces of the New German Cinema. Sukowa played the victimized Mieze in Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Berlin Alexanderplatz, for which she won the German Best Actors’ Award and she received the German Gold Medal for best actress for her title role in Fassninder’s Lola.
Equally memorable were her portrayals of fiercely independent radicals in two films directed by Margarethe von Trotta… Marianne and Julianne, which earned her the Golden Phoenix at the Venice Film Festival, and Rosa Luxemburg, for which she won the Palme d’Or for best actress at the Cannes Film Festival.
Other credits include Zentropa (Lars von Trier), M. Butterfly (David Cronenberg), The Sicilian (Michael Cimino), Voyager (Volker Schlondorff), The Third Miracle (Agnieszka Holland) and Tim Robbins’ The Cradle Will Rock, which was shown at the Cannes Film Festival and opens December 10th.
Barbara Sukowa stars with Gene Wilder, Cherry Jones and Claire Bloom in the Arts & Entertainment movie, "The Lady in Question," directed by Joyce Chopra. It airs on December 12, 1999. Two other pictures are in post-production: Urban Folk Tales, directed by Jon Matthews and Star! Star! directed by Jette Mueller.
Apart from her career as an actress, Barbara Sukowa is an internationally renowned concert artist. She has been critically acclaimed as a leading interpreter of Schoenberg’s "Pierrot Lunaire," which she has performed in Paris, London, Berlin, St. Petersburg, Barcelona, Los Angeles and New York.
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