Petra Schmidt Schaller

Petra SchmidtSchaller is a German actress. She is noted for the roles of Helene in Runaway Horse alongside Ulrich Noethen, Ulrich Tukur and Katja Riemann, and Maud Brewster in The Sea Wolf alongside Thomas Kretschmann.

SchmidtSchaller was born in Magdeburg, the daughter of actors Andreas SchmidtSchaller and Christine Krger. She grew up in Prenzlauer Berg, a borough of East Berlin. Although she comes from a family of actors, her first experience with acting was during a oneyear stay 19971998 as an exchange student in Kansas, where she attended her High Schools 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.

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