Peggy Lukac
Peggy Lukac (born June 18, 1949 in New York City ) is an American actress , director , comedian and fashion designer .
Life
education
Born in New York, Peggy Lukac grew up in Vienna and made Berlin her adopted home from 1972 before completing a degree in theater studies in Vienna . In Berlin she made a name for herself as an actress and director.
theatre
From 1972 to 1981 she was a co-founder of the Theatermanufaktur Berlin . She played theater from 1983 to 1995, a. a. at the Freie Volksbühne Berlin , at the Renaissance Theater , Schillertheater and Schlosspark Theater (7 years), at the Berliner Arbeiter-Theater (bat) , at the tribune , at the Grips-Theater , at the Theater am Kurfürstendamm , at the Sophiensælen and in several off Projects (all Berlin). From 1980 to 1995 she made three solo productions; 1986 first theater production of piano games by Friederike Roth . In 1989 she founded the theater project TiefenEntTrümmerung , which she directed with Ingrid Hammer until 1995. She has headed Peggy Lukac & Company since 1996 . The productions Die Affäre Rue de Lourcine (1996) and the Comedy in the Dark (1997) - both at the Altenburg-Gera Theater - followed.
Since 2003 she has worked as a director and actress in collaboration with transalpin . In 2003 she was the director of the theater and film program for the Jewish Culture Days.
Private and design store
Peggy Lukac fell ill with breast cancer in 2010, and in 2012 she opened her first shop in Berlin for kimonos and scarves with fabrics from Japan, Africa and Azerbaijan. After she got the engagement for the role of Inge Ebinger in the telenovela Rote Rosen (broadcast from 2013 to 2016) and moved to the set in Lüneburg for it, she transferred her shop to a befriended make-up artist. Soon after she thought the cancer was cured in early 2014, she fell ill again and has been under continuous treatment ever since. In June 2016, after leaving Rote Rosen , she reopened a fabric and design shop in Berlin under the name Peggy Lukac Design, with fabrics from different cultures.
Peggy Lukac met her husband Gustav in the mid-1980s at the Schillertheater, where he worked as a lighting master. They have a property together with a country house in Lünow , where her husband lives permanently and she lives in a long-distance relationship at times. Her husband and family were and are her support: “My husband was by my side the whole time, took care of me, encouraged me and left absolutely no doubt that I would conquer cancer. [...] He was always my greatest hold and now very special. His love carried me through the darkest hours. ”(Quoted from liebenswert-magazin.de , August 2017.) Her two sons (* 1981 and * 1991) also gave her support and assistance.
Filmography
- 1981: The Sniffer
- 1981: House in the Park
- 1982: Three ladies from the grill
- 1984: On a Friday evening
- 1985: furniture purchase
- 1986: That's when I decided to become a politician
- 1986: Head over heels
- 1988: Current Affairs Cabinet
- 1988: Pride and Extreme Prejudice
- 1990: A home for animals
- 1991: house by the lake
- 1992: Berlin Break
- 1994: AS
- 1994: It'll never make it
- 1995: The girl Else
- 1995: Mommy, I want to stay with you
- 1995: The three
- 1996: The wild child
- 1996: Kurklinik Rosenau
- 1996: City Clinic
- 1996: Merciless - Forced into prostitution
- 1997: Edgar Wallace - The Eerie Letters
- 1997: Hello, Uncle Doc!
- 1997: Alpha team - the lifesavers in the operating room
- 1997: hunting season
- 1998: gasoline in the blood
- 1998: Stefanie, just in case
- 1998: Dragon Land
- 1998: Merciless 2 - Delivered and Abused
- 1999: Sperling - Sperling and the great word of honor
- 1999: The Commissioner
- 1999: Hotel Elfie
- 1999: Bülowbogen practice
- 2000: Heidi
- 2001: double effort
- 2001: Tatort - Hazard!
- 2001: Our Charly
- 2001: Alpha team - the lifesavers in the operating room
- 2001: Heartbeat - The North Medical Team
- 2001: A millionaire for breakfast
- 2001: Dangerous proximity and you have no idea
- 2001: love is half the battle
- 2002: Our Charly
- 2002: the account
- 2002: Bella Block : Kurschatten
- 2002: four kisses and an email
- 2003: Balko
- 2003: The Guard
- 2003: A blatant deal
- 2003: Sex Up - It's not easy for boys either
- 2003: The fat one
- 2004: Saniyes Lust
- 2004: the account
- 2004: the cat
- 2004: Totally wrong
- 2004: Heidi
- 2004: Behind bars - The woman barn
- 2004: Alarm for Cobra 11 - The Autobahn Police
- 2005: Sex Up - I could do it again
- 2005: In all friendship
- 2005: Malpractice
- 2005: last chapter
- 2005: 4 against Z
- 2005: SOKO Kitzbühel
- 2005: Behind bars - The woman barn; Episodes 353-361
- 2006: Summer moved on
- 2006: The woman from Checkpoint Charlie
- 2007: Help! Wedding! Worst week of my life
- 2008: Paths to Happiness
- 2009: A strong team - the big eat
- 2010: All the best
- 2010: Tatort - Forget-Me-Not
- 2011–2015: Knallerfrauen
- 2011: A summer in Paris
- 2011: News from Büttenwarder - Naked (episode 36)
- 2012: The marriage fraud and his wife
- 2012: SOKO Leipzig - Gears
- 2013–2016, 2018: Rote Rosen
- 2014: Emergency call harbor edge - father under suspicion
- 2016: Emergency call Hafenkante - The wrong woman
- 2017: Katie Fforde - a matter of the heart
- since 2017: Magda is already doing it!
- 2017: Betty's diagnosis
- since 2018: The Savior - We are lawyers
- 2018: The nestling
Radio plays
- 1996: Rolf Schneider : Montezumas Krone (nurse) - Director: Rolf Schneider (detective radio play - MDR / SFB)
- 1998: Hans Zimmer : Blini or the secret in the closet - Director: Klaus-Michael Klingsporn (children's radio play - DLR Berlin)
Awards
- German television award
- Comedy award
Web links
- Peggy Lukac in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Peggy Lukac. Agency page on the regine Schmitz agency website.
- About me. Short biography on the official website of Peggy Lukac Design.
- Peggy Lukac. Biography in: Weltbild.at. Weltbild Verlag, undated.
- Ronja Brier: Peggy Lukac: After cancer came your career. In the BZ, "Rote Rosen" actress Peggy Lukac first talked about her hardest time. In: BZ , January 12, 2014.
- Kerstin Ammermann: Her husband is her husband - Rote Rosen: Ex-Star Peggy Lukac talks about cancer. In: liebenswert-magazin.de. Bauer Xcel Media Germany, August 4, 2017.
- Jessica Jansen: Rote Rosen: Peggy Lukac returns as Inge Ebinger. In: liebenswert-magazin.de. Bauer Xcel Media Germany, June 19, 2018.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Lukac, Peggy |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American actress, director, comedian and fashion designer |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 18, 1949 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |