Sophia Thomalla (born 6 October 1989) is a German actress, model, and television presenter.
Early life
Thomalla was born in
East Berlin
East Berlin was the ''de facto'' capital city of East Germany from 1949 to 1990. Formally, it was the Allied occupation zones in Germany, Soviet sector of Berlin, established in 1945. The American, British, and French sectors were known as ...
,
East Germany on 6 October 1989, the daughter of actors
Simone Thomalla
Simone Thomalla (born 11 April 1965) is a German actress.
Career
As a child, Thomalla wanted to be a musician, but instead attended the Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch acting school in Berlin. She began her career in 1982 in Ea ...
and André Vetters. She grew up in Berlin until she was seven and moved to
Cologne with her mother. After completing her fourth year of school, she and her mother moved to
Kleinmachnow, then to
Gelsenkirchen
Gelsenkirchen (, , ; wep, Gelsenkiärken) is the 25th most populous city of Germany and the 11th most populous in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia with 262,528 (2016) inhabitants. On the Emscher River (a tributary of the Rhine), it lies ...
a year later. She also lived there after the separation of her mother from
Rudi Assauer
Rudolf "Rudi" Assauer (30 April 1944 – 6 February 2019) was a German football player and executive. After his professional career for Borussia Dortmund and Werder Bremen, Assauer served as the general manager of FC Schalke 04 for many years ...
. Like her mother, Thomalla practised
kickboxing
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as a recreational sport; she also partook in some amateur fights.
Career
From 2007 to 2009, Thomalla attended the Constantin School for Acting, Dance and Singing in
Bochum
Bochum ( , also , ; wep, Baukem) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia. With a population of 364,920 (2016), is the sixth largest city (after Cologne, Düsseldorf, Dortmund, Essen and Duisburg) of the most populous Germany, German federal state o ...
. In 2006, she played her first television role as the daughter of
Barbara Rudnik and