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German actress Franka Potente was launched as an international star after portraying the hot pink haired Lola in the small-budget German film Run Lola Run (1998) for director Tom Tykwer. In addition to earning worldwide recognition, she nabbed such awards as a Bambi Award, an International Biennal Award and a German Film Award. She continued to impress American viewers as Johnny Depp's drug-running lover in Blow (2001) and Matt Damon's love interest in the popular The Bourne Identity (2002) and its continuation The Bourne Supremacy (2004). Potente will soon play roles in the upcoming Elementarteilchen (2006) and Steven Soderbergh's epic Che (2006).
Before being recognized internationally, Potente, with her trade mark of ever-changing hair color, had built a solid career in her native speaking country. In 1996, she was handed a Bavarian Film Award for her bravura work in her debut film It's a Jungle Out There. A year later, Potente turned the heads of film critics after playing Gabrielle Becker in the made-for-TV film Opera Ball (1997), in which she took home a 1998 Bavarian TV Award. In the more recent film, she delivered well-received performances in the horror Anatomy (2000) and Tykwer's The Princess and the Warrior (2000), in which she nabbed a 2000 German Film Award.
Off screen, Potente, which means powerful in Italian and Spanish, was listed as one of European Film Promotion's 'Shooting Stars' in 1998. She was one of jury members at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2005. As for her private life, the Germany-born beauty, who speaks fluent French, English and German, is currently dating actor Elijah Wood. She also had a long-running relationship with filmmaker Tom Tykwer. (together from 1998-2002).
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