Evelyn Opela

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Evelyn Opela (2007)

Evelyn Opela (born February 4, 1945 in Warnsdorf ) is an actress who grew up in Czechoslovakia and has lived in Germany since the late 1960s .

biography

After graduating from high school, Evelyn Opela trained as an actor in Prague . In what was then the Czechoslovak Republic, she appeared in around ten films and was also seen on stage, most recently at the Prague National Theater . In 1967 she moved to the Federal Republic of Germany. Here she was quickly discovered for television and played mainly in crime series such as Der Kommissar , Derrick and Der Alte . In 1970 Bernhard Wicki engaged her alongside Helmut Qualtinger and Agnes Fink for his Joseph Roth film The Wrong Weight . Rainer Erler cast them in his productions The Amateur and The Blue Palais - Immortality.

In the cinema she starred in two films in the Die Lümmel von der Erste Bank series. Also in the 1970s she was seen in the two Ludwig Ganghofer film adaptations Schloss Hubertus (with Karlheinz Böhm ) and Das Schweigen im Walde . In 1993 she starred alongside Hugh Grant in the thriller Night Train to Venice .

In addition to other roles in many television series ( Das Traumschiff , Tatort , Der Mann ohne Schatten , SOKO Leipzig ) , she also played repeatedly on German-speaking stages ( Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus , Theater in der Josefstadt Vienna ).

Evelyn Opela and television producer Helmut Ringelmann were married from 1986 until his death on February 20, 2011.

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SURNAME Opela, Evelyn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech actress
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Warnsdorf , occupied Czechoslovakia