Liv Lisa Fries

Acting

Liv Lisa Fries

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
Oct 31, 1990 (34 years old)

Liv Lisa Fries

Known For

From Hilde with Love
2h 4m
Movie 2024

From Hilde with Love

In Berlin 1942, Hilde is a member of an anti-Nazi...

Kafka
4h 28m
TV Show 2024

Kafka

The story of Franz Kafka's life from different perspectives. Presenting...

Freud's Last Session
1h 49m
Movie 2023

Freud's Last Session

On the eve of the Second World War, two of...

Zwischen uns
1h 26m
Movie 2022

Zwischen uns

Eva is struggling to live happily with her autistic son...

Munich – The Edge of War
2h 10m
Movie 2021

Munich – The Edge of War

At the tense 1938 Munich Conference, former friends who now...

Hinterland
1h 38m
Movie 2021

Hinterland

Vienna, 1920. The Austro-Hungarian Empire has collapsed. Peter Perg returns...

Confessions of Felix Krull
1h 54m
Movie 2021

Confessions of Felix Krull

Literary adaptation: a handsome youth of humble origins rises in...

Prélude
1h 35m
Movie 2019

Prélude

Nineteen-year-old David dreams of being a concert pianist on the...

Rocket Perelman
1h 37m
Movie 2017

Rocket Perelman

In the artist colony Rocket Perelman ten people strive to...

Babylon Berlin
TV Show 2017

Babylon Berlin

Beneath the decadence of 1929 Berlin, lies an underworld city...

Biography

Liv Lisa Fries is a German actress. In 2017, she gained an international following as the female lead Charlotte Ritter in the German TV series Babylon Berlin. She was raised in the Berlin borough of Pankow. Fries studied abroad as an exchange student in Beijing. After receiving her Abitur in 2010, she enrolled in university to study philosophy and literary science, but dropped out as her career as an actress progressed. Fries wanted to become an actress when she was fourteen years old after watching Léon: The Professional because she was impressed by Natalie Portman's performance. Her first film role was in Atomised (2005) (German: Elementarteilchen); however, her role was cut from the film. Her debut occurred in 2006 with an episode of Schimanski, in which she played the female lead role. She performed in the German made-for-television film Sie hat es verdient (2010) as an aggressive, frustrated teenager named Linda who tortures one of her peers. Fries said that during filming, she started feeling lonely and isolated, just like her character. In 2013, she starred in the German tragicomedy Zurich (original title Und morgen Mittag bin ich tot). She received wide critical acclaim for her performance as Lea, a young woman with cystic fibrosis. According to Fries, she prepared for the role by meeting with a patient with the disease, in addition to running up stairs while breathing through a straw. For her role, she was awarded the Bavarian Film Prize 2013, the Max Ophüls Prize, a German Film Critics Award, and the German Director’s Prize. Fries received her most prominent role to date when she was cast in 2016 as Charlotte Ritter in the German prestige television show Babylon Berlin. In Babylon Berlin, Fries stars as a police stenographer from a poor background who uses her resourcefulness and connections to investigate a series of crimes in Weimar Republic-era Berlin. The first two series of the show were filmed over eight months beginning in May of 2016 and released consecutively in Fall 2017. Babylon Berlin has been very popular in Germany as well as with international audiences and has elevated Fries to international prominence; Fries is considered one of Germany's upcoming stars and has been featured in many magazines. For her portrayal, Fries shares an Adolf Grimme Award with the Babylon Berlin team. The show went on a yearlong production hiatus during which Fries filmed two projects; she played a recurring role in both seasons of the 2017 American TV series Counterpart, and also co-starred in the film Prélude with Louis Hofmann. In late 2018, Fries began the six-month shoot for the third season of Babylon Berlin which will premiere in Germany in 2020. In addition to her native tongue German, she speaks English, French and Mandarin. As of 2020, Fries lives in a village in Brandenburg.