Life

Thomalla is the daughter of the architect Alfred Thomalla. She grew up in Potsdam

Potsdam

Potsdam is the capital city of the German federal state of Brandenburg and part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region. It is situated on the River Havel, southwest of Berlin city centre....

 in East Germany. As a child she wanted to be a musician, but instead she attended the Hochschule für Schauspielkunst "Ernst Busch" acting school in Berlin

Berlin

Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...

. She gave her debut in the movie "Abgefunden". In 1989 she gave birth to her daughter Sophia Thomalla, who became an actress too. From 1991 until 1995 Thomalla was married to the actor André Vetter. From 2000 until 2009 she had a relationship with the German football manager Rudi Assauer

Rudi Assauer

Rudolf "Rudi" Assauer is a former German football manager and former player. Due to his habit of smoking a great number of cigars, he has been given the nickname "Stumpen-Rudi", or "Cheroot Rudi"....

. Today Thomalla is in a relationship with the Team handball

Team handball

Handball is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each pass a ball to throw it into the goal of the other team...

 goalie Silvio Heinevetter.
The Playboy

Playboy

Playboy is an American men's magazine that features photographs of nude women as well as journalism and fiction. It was founded in Chicago in 1953 by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan from Hefner's mother. The magazine has grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc., with...

 published photos of Simone Thomalla in the February 2010 edition.

Career

Thomalla began her career in East Germany with the movie "Abgefunden". Since then, she had many roles in different German movies and TV-series. Thomalla is well known for her commercials. She won the Goldene Kamera together with Rudi Assauer for her Veltins

Veltins

Brauerei C & A Veltins is a brewery in the west German city of Meschede-Grevenstein.Veltins ranks number 7 among Germany's best selling breweries....

 commercial. Today she plays "Eva Saalfeld" in the Tatort

Tatort

Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss , crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF 2 in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland...

 TV-series, as well as other roles.

External links

• Simone Thomalla at imdb.com