Claudia Michelsen is a German actress. She was born on February 4, 1969 in Dresden. Her father is the dentist and composer Udo Zimmermann but she met him when she was 15 years old.
It was her mother’s future husband who adopted her and gave her his last name. While growing up, Claudia Michelsen had so much interest in the performing arts.
At a point in time, she thought of pursuing a career as a radio officer but later she trained at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin from 1985 to 1989.
It is important to note that she began her career in the GDR at the Volksbühne Berlin and since 1989, she has always been in front of the camera. Claudia Michelsen has acted in over 110 film and television productions.
She made her debut as an actress when she played a role in Rainer Simon’s The Ascent of Chimborazo (1989). She also played a role in dual role in the Godard film Deutschland Neu(n) Null in 1991 and also received an engagement at the Berlin Volksbühne.
Claudia Michelsen was in 1995, awarded the Max Ophüls Prize for the leading role of Rita in the television film Das creates die nie by Lih Janowitz as best young actress. She acted alongside Boris Aljinovic and Jürgen Tarrach in the feature film Three Chinese with the Double Bass in 2000.
She also played a role in The Lawyer and His Guest, Napola – Elite für den Führer as well as Hell in the Head.
Claudia Michelsen played the role of talk show editor-in-chief Christine in the Austrian feature film 42plus.
Other productions she has been involved with include Grimme Prize- nominated drama 12 Means: I Love You, Liebling Kreuzberg, The Men from K3, Tatort, The Duo, The Old Man , The Last Witness, Bloch and Wilsberg as well as Kanzleramt.
Claudia Michelsen Husband
Claudia Michelsen married Josef Rusnak and they moved to Los Angeles in 1995. Josef Rusnak is a German director.
Claudia Michelsen and Josef Rusnak gave birth to their daughter, Lina Rusnak. Lina Rusnak is a German-American actress who was born in 1997.
Claudia Michelsen and Josef Rusnak divorced in 2001. As a result of this, Claudia Michelsen returned to Germany.
Between 2002 and 2013, Claudia Michelsen was with Swiss actor Anatole Taubman and they gave birth to Tara Taubman.Tara Taubman was born in 2004.
Claudia Michelsen currently lives in Berlin and she is single.
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