Born in Zurich. She studied at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna and was engaged at the Bavarian State Theater in Munich from 1994 to 1999, at the Burgtheater Vienna from 1999 to 2001, at the Thalia Theater Hamburg from 2001 to 2009 and at the Deutsches Theater Berlin from 2009 to 2022. In 2010, she was awarded the Tilla Durieux Jewelry, which remains in the possession of an "outstanding representative of German acting" for ten years at a time. In 2019, she won the Swiss Film Award for Best Actress for the role of Ruth in Simon Jaquemet's film The Innocent, with which she was nominated for the German Acting Award in the same year. She moved back to Switzerland in 2022 and works freelance.
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