Caroline Frank

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Caroline Frank (* 1976 in Katoomba , New South Wales , Australia ) is an Austrian actress and musical artist .

Life

Training and first successes

Caroline Frank was born in the Australian Blue Mountains and grew up in Vienna . Her father worked as a ship's cook . She received her acting and musical training at the Performing Arts Studios in Vienna, which she completed in 1998 with the stage entrance examination. Her teachers there were Michelle Friedman (vocals), Klaus Rohrmoser (acting) and Alonso Barros (dance). Since then, Frank has been working as an actress, singer and musical artist.

Since 1999 she has had theater engagements in the entire German-speaking area (Austria, Switzerland, Germany), e.g. B. at the United Theaters Vienna , at the Raimundtheater , at the Theater in der Josefstadt , at the Wiener Kammerspiele , at the Chamber Opera Vienna , at the Theater des Westens in Berlin and at the Deutsches Theater in Munich .

She had leading roles u. a. as Polly in the German premiere of the musical Crazy for You ( Stadttheater Bern , 1999), as Anybodies in West Side Story ( Stadttheater Mainz , 1999/00 season), as Carmen Diaz in Fame ( Stadttheater Klagenfurt / Theater St. Gallen , season 2004 / 05) and as Jean Harlow / Marilyn in Marilyn! - The Musical ( Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz , 2005).

Musical, operetta and theater

In 2008 she played the Rössl landlady in the operetta Im Weißen Rößl at the Theater in der Josefstadt , followed by Miss Kost in Cabaret from 2010 to 2011 . In 2009 she was part of the premiere cast of the musical Der Graf von Monte Christo (director: Andreas Gergen ) at the St. Gallen Theater. In the 2009/10 season she appeared at the Stadttheater Bern as Helene in the musical Sweet Charity .

From 2010 to 2012 she was a guest at the Vereinigte Bühnen Wien in the Udo Jürgens musical I was never in New York (Lisa Wartberg / 2nd line-up) and from 2014 to 2015 in Mamma Mia! (Donna, Tanja / 2nd cast). From 2015 to 2016 she played Velma Kelly in the musical Chicago at the Theater des Westens in Berlin .

In the 2017/18 season she took on the role of Juliska Varady in a new production of the revue operetta Mask in Blue at the Baden City Theater . In 2018 she gave a guest performance at the Bronski und Grünberg theater in Vienna as Pepi in Wiener Blut . In October / November 2019 she performed at the Vienna Theater der Jugend in the production of Prinz und Bettelknabe . In the 2019/20 season she can be seen again in the operetta Drei Walzer by Oscar Straus at the Stadttheater Baden.

She also made guest appearances at the Amstetten musical summer, the Röttingen Franconian Festival and the Tecklenburg open-air theater . Caroline Frank also belonged to the ensemble of the cabaret “ Simpl ” for several years and played in productions of the Wiener Metropol . In addition, she performed her own solo programs, took part in musical galas and began her first directorial work in 2013 (Off-Theater, Vienna, Theater Walfischgasse , Theatercouch Vienna).

Movie and TV

Caroline Frank has also been in front of the camera for several film and television productions. In the Austrian crime series SOKO Donau (2015), with Holger Daemgen as a partner, she had a leading role in the episode as the sister of a murdered husband and father. In the ORF Tatort: ​​Baum falls (first broadcast: November 2019), Frank embodied, at the side of Alexander Linhardt , the wife of the suspected brother of a murdered Carinthian sawmill owner, who had a relationship with her brother-in-law.

She is a member of the Association of Austrian Film Actors (VÖFS).

Private

Caroline Frank, who meanwhile has Austrian citizenship, lives with her husband and two children in Perchtoldsdorf near Vienna.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Caroline Frank at schauspielervideos.de. Retrieved December 14, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b c d Caroline Frank . Profile and vita at CASTFORWARD. Retrieved December 14, 2019.
  3. ↑ a b Caroline Frank: "I can still hear the sound of the sea today" . In: STANDARD of September 3, 2019. Retrieved December 14, 2019.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h Caroline Frank . Vita at Musical1.de. Retrieved December 14, 2019.
  5. ↑ a b c d CAROLINE FRANK . Biography. Official website of Bühne Baden . Retrieved December 14, 2019.
  6. ↑ Premiere of "Mask in Blue" - a complete success . Performance review. NÖN.at from January 23, 2018. Retrieved on December 14, 2019.
  7. ↑ BADEN near Vienna: MASK IN BLUE by Fred Raymond . Performance review. Online marker from February 5, 2018. Accessed December 14, 2019.
  8. ↑ "Prince and beggar boy" in the THEATER DER JUGEND Vienna . Production details at Theaterkompass.de. Retrieved December 14, 2019.
  9. ↑ THREE WALTZS . Production details. Official website of Bühne Baden . Retrieved December 14, 2019.
  10. ↑ "Soko" double: investigations along the Danube and in Kitzbühel . Plot, cast and picture gallery. ORF.at. Retrieved December 14, 2019.
  11. ↑ Caroline Frank | SOKO Danube - Conscientiously . Scene excerpts on YouTube . Retrieved December 14, 2019.
  12. ^ "Tatort" from Vienna: The mountain is calling . Television review. In: Tagesspiegel of November 22, 2019. Retrieved November 26, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Frank, Caroline
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actress and musical artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Katoomba , New South Wales , Australia