Lena Amende
Biography
Lena Amende (born April 15, 1982, in Dinslaken) is a German actress. Lena Amende completed her acting training at institutions including the Filmacting School Cologne and the International Film School Cologne, and also pursued further training in Method Acting. Parallel to her acting career, she studied psychology at the International Psychoanalytic University Berlin and later began training to become a psychodynamic and analytic psychotherapist. Amende made her film debut in 2004 in the comedy *7 Zwerge – Männer allein im Wald* (7 Dwarves – Men Alone in the Woods), playing the role of Rapunzel. Additional film roles followed in productions such as *FC Venus – Angriff ist die beste Verteidigung*, *Keinohrhasen*, *Lamento*, and *Die Lügen der Sieger*. On television, she appeared primarily in guest and episodic roles in numerous series, including *Lotta in Love*, *Lindenstraße*, *Ein Fall für zwei*, *Alarm für Cobra 11*, *Großstadtrevier*, *Der Landarzt*, and *Verbotene Liebe*. She played recurring roles in series such as *Sturm der Liebe* and the final season of *Forsthaus Falkenau*. Furthermore, Amende appeared in various television films, including several productions within the ZDF series centered on the character Franziska Luginsland, as well as the Sat.1 production *Der Prinz von nebenan*. In addition to her work in front of the camera, she also performed on theater stages in Cologne and Berlin and made occasional appearances in commercials.
Known For & Full Filmography12 Titles
Drama Series - 1996, 16 episodes • as Anna Stern
A long-running German television series about a two-man team of highway police, originally set in Berlin and later in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Drama Series - 1981, 16 episodes • as Regina
Ein Fall für zwei is a German television series, which premiered on September 11, 1981 on ZDF. The series, located in Frankfurt am Main, features two main characters who solve crimes: a defense attorney and a private investigator. Josef Matula, a former German police officer, has gone into private business. His method of investigation is very effective and direct, and he sometimes even resorts to dirty tricks. Claus Theo Gärtner has portrayed the role since the start of the series.
Drama Series - 2013, 16 episodes • as Regina Lemcke
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Drama Series - 1999, 16 episodes • as Birgit
Hausmeister Krause – Ordnung muss sein is a German sitcom with Tom Gerhardt in the title role, shown from 1999 through 2010 on Sat.1. The series parodies typical German "squareness". Half-day janitor Dieter Krause is the embodiment of the German "square"; he is pernickety, blindly follows order, denounces others, is nosy, consistently puts his own interests above all else, acts subservient to his superiors and is brutish and unjust to those he deemes below him. Many plot elements — mishaps, misunderstandings, and frequent cases of mistaken identity — originate from Boulevard theatre. The characters in the series borrow heavily from those in Tom Gerhardt's film Voll normaaal, in many cases sharing names. In Voll normaaal, Tom Gerhardt played the roles of both Dieter and Tommie Krause; in Hausmeister Krause, Tommie was played by Axel Stein. Daughter Carmen is played by Janine Kunze. Other characters from Voll normaaal, such as Tommie's friend Mario, are relegated to the status of background characters. The scope of action also changed.
Drama Series - 2009, 16 episodes • as Mona
Electrical specialist salesman Ruediger Bunz knows famous people only from television. Simple knitted and satisfied with his life. For his wife, he cooks the best goulash and older ladies he repairs the vacuum cleaner. However, with the rest, it is almost overnight when he cast off the street for a commercial.
Movie - 2004, 2h 15m • as Speedy's Freundin
The Seven Dwarves live deep within a female-free-zone of the Enchanted Forest, but they cannot resist the innocent charms of Snow White when she enters their world. So when the evil queen abducts her, it is up to the dwarves to save her life.
Drama Series - 2012, 16 episodes • as Mandy
MEK 8 works behind the scenes and always comes into play when conventional police units are overwhelmed.
Drama Series - 2015, 16 episodes • as Sigrid
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 2010, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Juvenile detention or retirement home: That's the choice 17-year-old Malu is faced with after she's been caught stealing again. In order to save the girl from imprisonment, her aunt Johanna agrees to take Malu in with her until she has completed her social service in a retirement home. The rebellious half-orphan, whose single father Paul has hardly any time for her as a pilot, initially finds being placed with her aunt just as restrictive as a stay in prison.
Movie - 2008, 2h 15m • as Chantal Kruse
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 2019, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 2012, 2h 15m • as Steffi
Barbara Köster is suddenly alone: her baby daughter Leonie moved out when she was eighteen, as did her husband Walter years ago, who left the family for a younger woman. At 58, Barbara is left alone - alone in a house that is too big for her, alone in a job that doesn't fulfill her and alone with the stale feeling that she has missed out on something in life.