| Petra Schmidt-Schaller | |
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Petra Schmidt-Schaller at Filmfest Hamburg 2009 |
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| Born | August 28, 1980 Magdeburg, East Germany |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 2001 – |
Petra Schmidt-Schaller (born 28 August 1980) is a German actress. She is noted for the roles of Helene in Runaway Horse (Ein fliehendes Pferd, 2007 movie) alongside Ulrich Noethen, Ulrich Tukur and Katja Riemann, and Maud Brewster in The Sea Wolf (2008 ProSieben film) alongside Thomas Kretschmann. Having played leading roles in several German films, a minor part in Dark Castle Entertainment's Unknown (2011) is her first international assignment. After A Hero's Welcome (Nacht vor Augen, 2008) and Almanya – Welcome to Germany (Almanya – Willkommen in Deutschland, 2011), Unknown is her third work that was screened at the Berlin International Film Festival.
Schmidt-Schaller was born in Magdeburg,[1] the daughter of actors Andreas Schmidt-Schaller and Christine Krüger. Although she comes from a family of actors, her first experience with acting was during a one-year stay 1997–1998 as an exchange student in Kansas, where she attended her High School's acting class. Before her movie and TV career, she studied acting at the Felix Mendelssohn College of Music and Theatre in Leipzig from 2001 to 2005, and acted at the Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar from 2003 to 2005.
Since December 2008, she is represented by the same agency as Thomas Kretschmann, Hoestermann.[2] Petra Schmidt-Schaller lives in Berlin, where she also grew up.