Heike Makatsch
Makatsch was born in Düsseldorf, Germany, the daughter of former German national ice hockey team goaltender Rainer Makatsch. She spent several months in New Mexico in 1988 in an effort to improve her English, and later studied politics and sociology at the University of Düsseldorf for four semesters, which was followed by an apprenticeship as a dressmaker until 1994. Her television career started in 1993, when she was hired by music channel VIVA, hosting shows such as Interaktiv and Heikes Hausbesuche; two years later, on August 13 1995, she became the host of the German chart show BRAVO TV, aired by RTL II, a position she kept until summer 1996. In 1997 she started hosting her own weekly, late night show titled Heike Makatsch Show. However, due to bad ratings, it was cancelled after only eight episodes. Makatsch first appeared in a movie in 1996, when she starred in Detlev Buck's Männerpension (English: "Jailbirds"); she received the Bavarian Film Award as most talented young actor for her performance. Since then, she has appeared in several German and English language productions.
106 acting credits
Acting · 106
Scene of the Crime
1970
DAS!
1991
Leute heute
1997
Die Harald Schmidt Show
1995
NDR Talk Show
1979
Kölner Treff
1976
The Johannes B. Kerner Show
1998
Wetten, dass..?
1981
Bambi
1948
Beckmann
1999
Zimmer frei!
1996
3 nach 9
1974
Wer weiß denn sowas?
2015
Taff
1997
Tietjen und Bommes
1997
German Film Award
1951
Goldene Kamera
1984
alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio
1994
Kulturzeit
1995
Inas Nacht
2007
Blauer Panther
1989
Bavarian Film Awards
1979
Klein gegen Groß - Das unglaubliche Duell
2011
Love Actually
2003
Boulevard Bio
1991
Thadeusz
2005
Through the Night with...
2002
Late Night Berlin
2018
Resident Evil
2002
Menschen
1982
Neo Magazin Royale
2013
Kurzstrecke mit Pierre M. Krause
2020
Abendshow
2017
Longitude
2000
Gero von Boehm begegnet...
2002
The Book Thief
2013
INTIMATE.
2023
Where's Wanda?
2024
German Genius
2023
Telestar
1983
Wer stiehlt mir die Show?
2021
Paare
2015
A Sound of Thunder
2005
The Door
2009
Herzogpark
2022
Bravo Super Show – Die Gold-Otto-Verleihung
1994
Longitude
2000
Die Affäre Semmeling
2002
TV total
1999
Interaktiv
1996
Bibi Blocksberg - Das große Hexentreffen
2025
Hui Buh: The Castle Ghost
2006
V.I.P.
2000
Tom Sawyer
2011
Obsession
1997
Tara Road
2005
Naked
2002
Anatomy 2
2003
Aimée & Jaguar
1999
Der König von Palma
2022
Late Night Shopping
2001
Hätten Sie’s gewusst
2019
Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution
2007
Benjamin the Elephant
2019
Slava, der Hund
2023
The Pasta Detectives 3
2016
The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
2018
Am I Beautiful?
1998
Tender Hearts
2023
Hilde
2009
About a Girl
2015
God, You’re Such a Prick
2020
Kroos
2019
Everything is Love
2014
The Announcement
2000
Gripsholm
2000
Teenosaurus Rex
2017
I've Never Been to New York
2019
Margarete Steiff
2005
Zero
2021
Das Wunder von Lengede
2003
Back on Track
2013
A Goddamn Job
2001
Männerpension
1996
Nachts im Park
2002
Manhunt: Bloody Tango
2019
The Adventures of Huck Finn
2012
Sechzehneichen
2012
Dr. Hope
2009
Homecoming
2012
Akiko, the Flying Monkey
2025
No Songs of Love
2005
Speechless
2016
Das Gelbe vom Ei
1999
Schade um das schöne Geld
2008
9 Days Awake
2020
Tails You Win, Heads You Lose
1999
Strange Daughter
2017
Schwesterherz
2007
Love Your Female Neighbor!
1998
Männer und andere Katastrophen
1999
Almost Heaven - Ein Cowgirl auf Jamaika
2005
Twice New Life
2016
Wir machen durch bis morgen früh
2014
Familie auf Bestellung
2004
Slava der Hund
2024