Leslie Malton
Leslie Antonia Malton (born November 15, 1958 in Washington, DC ) is an American - German actress . She is the chair of the Federal Drama Association (BFFS).
Life
Leslie Malton is the daughter of a US diplomat and an Austrian. She lived in the USA for only five years. She spent her school and youth in Vienna. Already at the age of 14 she had the desire to become an actress.
Malton began her career in the theater. From 1985 she was a member of the Vienna Burgtheater for many years , where she first appeared as Ophelia in William Shakespeare's Hamlet (title role Klaus Maria Brandauer ; directed by Hans Hollmann ). Later she was often seen in productions by George Tabori .
Malton played and plays in numerous German television films and series and also works as a speaker for radio plays.
For her first international cinema production, she was hired by the Japanese director Masato Harada for the racing driver film Races in 1984 . In this Japanese-German co-production she played the leading female role alongside Hiroyuki Watanabe, Claus Theo Gärtner , Deborah Sasson , Stuart Wolfe , Dean Reed and Patrick Stewart .
In 1990 she received the Golden Camera Young Talent Award for her three leading roles in Perfume for a Suicide , The Copper Trap and Dangerous Seduction (Il piccolo popolo) . Her breakthrough for the German audience came in 1992 with her role as Gudrun Lange in the ZDF four-parter Der große Bellheim , for which she was awarded the Bavarian TV Prize and the Telestar in 1993. In this mini-series by Dieter Wedel she played alongside Mario Adorf , Will Quadflieg , Renan Demirkan , Heinz Hoenig , Ingrid Steeger and Dominique Horwitz . Since then she has been one of the most sought-after TV actresses in Germany.
Leslie Malton has been married to the actor Felix von Manteuffel since 1995 and lives in Berlin.
Since 2019 she has both American and German citizenship.
social commitment
Leslie Malton volunteered to support the German Winterreise project by the author Stefan Weiller as a spokesperson. Since 2009, the project has been drawing attention to the situation of the homeless in particular in a song and text cycle at charity events, in a song and text cycle, in cooperation with institutions such as the Diakonisches Werk.
Since 2013 she has been an ambassador for children with Rett Syndrome in Germany, which her younger sister also has. In 2015, the book Letter to My Sister , written together with Roswitha Quadflieg , was published , in which she describes the story of her sister and the relationship to one another.
Theater roles
- 1985: Hamlet by William Shakespeare , directed by Hans Hollmann, Burgtheater Vienna .
- 1987: Mein Kampf (Drama) , director: George Tabori , Burgtheater Vienna .
- 1988: For the second time , directed by George Tabori , Theater Der Kreis .
- 1989: Weissmann und Rotgesicht , director: George Tabori , Burgtheater Vienna .
- 1989: In love and crazy , director: George Tabori , Theater Der Kreis .
- 1991: Nathan's death , based on Gotthold Ephraim Lessing , director: George Tabori , Residenztheater Munich .
- 1993: The Grand Inquisitor , directed by George Tabori , Residenztheater Munich .
- 1993: Die Dame von Maxime , director: Achim Benning , Schauspielhaus Zürich .
- 1993: Oleanna based on David Mamet , director: Jens-Daniel Herzog , Schauspielhaus Zürich .
- 1998: Der Freigeist , director: Felix Benesch , Schauspielhaus Zurich .
- 1999: Hautnah , director: Gerd Böckmann , Hamburger Kammerspiele .
- 2001: Liebesruh , director: Jan Neumann , Schauspielhaus (Frankfurt am Main)
Filmography (selection)
- 1980: the dream home
- 1981: The Ortlieb women
- 1981: Possession
- 1981: Tatort: Taking of evidence (TV series)
- 1982: The Magic Mountain
- 1982: Blood and Honor - Youth under Hitler (four-part TV series)
- 1982: The unreachable
- 1983: Duck or Trente
- 1983: In the dead end
- 1983: children of our people
- 1984: Black Red Gold (TV series, episode Around Button and Collar )
- 1984: Races
- 1984: Ghost Stories : In the Shadow of Doubt
- 1986: Ticket to Rome
- 1986: The realm of the dead
- 1988: Rush of Metamorphosis (two-part TV series)
- 1989: A made man
- 1990: The copper trap
- 1990: Perfume for a suicidal woman
- 1990: Dangerous Seduction (Il piccolo popolo)
- 1992–2008: The Old One (TV series, various roles, 6 episodes)
- 1993: The great Bellheim (four-part TV series)
- 1993: The Elephant Bride
- 1994: Police Call 110: Ghosts (TV series)
- 1995: Doctor in fear
- 1997: The crime scene: murderous business
- 1998: Midnight Flight - Nightmare in the Airport ( Midnight Flight )
- 1998: Shock - A woman in fear
- 1999: Heartless
- 1999–2006: Siska (TV series, various roles, 7 episodes)
- 1999: Sturmzeit ( five-part TV series, 2 episodes)
- 2000: Strange relatives (TV multipart)
- 2000: The Crimes of Professor Capellari - The Dream House (TV series)
- 2000: silence is gold
- 2001: SK Kölsch (TV series, episode Vätersorgen )
- 2001: class reunion - murder case among friends
- 2001: MythQuest (TV series, 5 episodes)
- 2002: first love
- 2002: The bull from Tölz: final whistle
- 2003: Donna Leon - Venetian Final (TV series)
- 2004: Donna Leon - Acqua Alta
- 2004: The Last Witness (TV series, episode Who Longs for Love )
- 2004: Wilsberg: Death of a Hostess (TV series)
- 2004: Crime scene: the devil in the body
- 2006: nine scenes
- 2006: The children of the escape (three-part TV series, episode Breslau is burning! )
- 2006: FC Venus - attack is the best defense
- 2007: The Public Prosecutor (TV series, episode Glückskinder )
- 2007: The Fat Man (TV series, Follow The False Track )
- 2008: age before beauty
- 2008: innocence
- 2008: Run for Your Life - From Junkie to Ironman
- 2008: a strong finish
- 2008: waiting for Angelina
- 2009, 2016: SOKO Stuttgart (TV series, various roles, 2 episodes)
- 2010: Kreutzer is coming (TV film)
- 2010: Run if you can
- 2010: The Fröhlich family - worse is always possible
- 2010: Notruf Hafenkante (TV series, episode The Tattooed Woman )
- 2011: Dora Heldt: Aunt Inge runs away
- 2012: Offroad
- 2012: Half a hundred
- 2012: Come on, beautiful death
- 2012: The Rosenheim Cops (TV series, episode The Rosenheim Grand Prix )
- 2012: 3 rooms / kitchen / bathroom
- 2013: silence
- 2013: SOKO Wismar (TV series, follow-up class reunion )
- 2013: There is still something going on
- 2013: Crime scene: Borowski and the angel
- 2014: Wilsberg: Mouth Dead
- 2014: The time with you
- 2014: The man without a shadow
- 2014: Last Trace Berlin (TV series, episode Seven Lives )
- 2015: A Case for Two (TV series, episode For Lack of Evidence )
- 2015: Taxi
- 2016: Under Different Circumstances - The Promise
- 2016: Katie Fforde: The Silence of Men
- 2016: Blockbustaz (TV series, episode parents )
- 2016: The Zurich crime thriller: Borchert's case (crime series)
- 2016: Schwarzach 23
- 2016: Temple (TV series, two episodes)
- 2016: Winnetou - The myth is alive (three-part TV series)
- 2017: Happy Burnout
- 2017: Black bread in Thailand
- 2017: Dieter Not Unhappy
- 2018: Marie Brand and the black day
- 2018: Donna Leon - Finally mine
- 2018-2019: Best Sisters (TV series)
- 2018–2019: Weingut Wader (TV series)
- 2019: the resurrection
- 2019: a fateful plan
Synchronous roles
- 1998: Airport Nightmare (as Angela Sullivan)
- 1999: Strange Relatives (as Andrea)
Radio plays and features
- 1991: George Tabori : How to be happy without spending too much (Amanda) - Director: Jörg Jannings (radio play - RIAS / SWF)
- 1997: Konrad Hansen : A beautiful finish (Barbara) - Director: Klaus Dieter Pittrich (detective radio play - WDR)
- 2001: Irina Wittmer: Leonies Schirm - Director: Ursula Weck (radio play) Deutschlandradio Berlin DLR
- 2002: Elias Canetti : Die Blendung - Director: Robert Matejka (radio play (2 parts) - DLR Berlin / BR / ORF)
- 2002: May B. Lund : Finger exercises - adaptation and direction: Irene Schuck (detective radio play - DLR Berlin)
- 2006: Philippe Bruehl : Toulouse Confidential - Director: Philippe Bruehl (radio play - SWR)
- 2007: Bernd Schmidt : Death in the Picture. The case of Fabritius - Director: Stefan Hilsbecher (radio play - SWR)
- 2011: Évelyne de la Chenelière : The Feet of Angels - Director: Ulrike Brinkmann (radio play - SR / DKultur)
- 2014: Lisbeth Jessen : Hello in Polish - Director: Lisbeth Jessen ( Radio-Feature - DKultur / WDR)
- 2014: Esther Dischereit : Flowers for Otello - Director: Giuseppe Maio (radio play - DKultur)
- 2016: Kathrin Röggla : Normal earners - Director: Leopold von Verschuer. (BR radio play and media art )
Audio books
- 2009: Yes, I want !: Stories and poems about the wedding (together with Felix von Manteuffel ), Der Audio Verlag, ISBN 978-3898138314
- 2015: Letter to my sister (author reading), structure audio, ISBN 978-3945733103
- 2017: Claire Fuller : An English Marriage (together with Heikko Deutschmann ), OSTERWOLDaudio, ISBN 978-3869523422
- 2019: Margaret Atwood : The Witnesses (Together with Eva Meckbach , Inka Löwendorf , Vera Teltz and Julian Mehne ), OSTERWOLDaudio, ISBN 978-3869524337
literature
- Leslie Malton, Roswitha Quadflieg: Letter to my sister . Aufbau-Verlag , Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-351-03620-1 .
Awards
- 1986: German Actor Award Chaplin Shoe of the Federal Association of German Film and Television Directors. V. as the best young actress
- 1990: Golden Camera ( Lilli Palmer Memory Camera ) as Best Young Actress for Perfume for a Suicide , Dangerous Seduction and Copper Trap
- 1993: Bavarian TV Award in the category Best Actress - Series and Series for the portrayal of Gudrun Lange in Der große Bellheim
- 1993: Telestar in the Best Actress category for the portrayal of Gudrun Lange in Der große Bellheim
- 2013: Rolf Mares Prize in the category Outstanding Performance Actress / Singer / Dancer for the portrayal of Dorine in Tartuffe in the Ernst Deutsch Theater
Web links
- Literature by and about Leslie Malton in the catalog of the German National Library
- Leslie Malton in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Leslie Malton at filmportal.de
- Leslie Malton in the German dubbing index
Individual evidence
- ↑ When I think of Germany: the actress Leslie Malton . Deutschlandfunk, September 1, 2019
- ↑ Winterreise ( Memento of the original from July 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Our Ambassador Leslie Malton. Parents help for children with Rett Syndrome in Germany eV, October 27, 2013, accessed on October 19, 2015 .
- ↑ Actress Leslie Malton: "Why did Marion get sick and not me?" Der Tagesspiegel , October 27, 2013, accessed on October 19, 2015 .
- ↑ winners rolf-mares-preis.de, accessed October 22, 2013.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Malton, Leslie |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Malton, Leslie Antonia (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | US-american actress |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 15, 1958 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Washington, DC , United States |