Senta Berger

Since February 2003, Senta Berger has been president of the German Film Academy, who want to advance the new generation of actors and actresses in Germany and Europe and who will decide the assignment of the German Film Awards in the future. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1719 Vine Street. In the same year, she also started a career as a singer of Chansons. She returned to the stage in the 1950s, and was found dead of a heart attack after failing to show up for a performance. Afterwards further serial hits follow, like “The fast Gerti”, where she plays a taxi driver. In the following year, she starred in the televison version of The Egg and I. In 1985/86, she started a comeback in front of German-speaking audiences in the very poular TV serial “Kir Royal”. Carroll retired from films in 1938, but starred in the early television series The Aldrich Family in 1950.

Between 1974 and 1982, she played the “Buhlschaft” in the play “Jedermannn” at the Salzburg Festival with Curd Jürgens and Maximilian Schell. In 1930 she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for The Devil's Holiday. She successfully played at the Burgtheater in Vienna, at the Thaliatheater in Hamburg and at the Schillertheater in Berlin. One of them, Easy Come, Easy Go, made her a star. The birth of her two sons caused Senta to turn back to the theatre. In 1928 she made eight films. Berger continued to develop her European career in France and Italy. Born Ann Veronica LaHiff in New York City, she began her acting career in Broadway musicals, but was a successful talkies actress because her musical background enabled her to play in the movie musicals of the 1930s. Although she made her film debut in 1918 at the age of 14, her second film wasn't until Ladies Must Dress in 1927.

Other internationally successful films made by the duo included, amongst others, Die weiße Rose, The terrible girl (Das schreckliche Mädchen) and Mutters Courage. Nancy Carroll (November 19, 1903 - August 6, 1965) was an American actress. In 1970, she starred for the first time in a film produced by her own company and directed by her husband. In 1966, they married, after starting up their own film production company the previous year. In 1963, Berger met Michael Verhoeven, son of the German film director Paul Verhoeven (not the Dutch Paul Verhoeven).

An offer for a series role, which would have brought an obligation of several years with itself, was the reason for their return to Germany. In 1962, she went to Hollywood and worked with stars such as Charlton Heston, Frank Sinatra, John Wayne and Yul Brynner. Brauner used Senta Berger in several films, but soon she tired of musicals. More and more directors and producers wanted to work with her, for example Bernhard Wicki and Arthur Brauner, who produced the film The Good Soldier Schweijk with Berger and Heinz Rühmann, a famous German actor.

Her ambition was still to be a film actress. In 1958, she became the youngest member of the Josefstadt theatre in Vienna. She applied for the Max Reinhardt Seminar, a famous acting school in Vienna, and was accepted, shortly afterwards was forced to leave, because she had accepted a film role without permission. In 1957, she won her first small role in a film.

Berger then took private acting lessons. But her dream of a career as a dancer was destroyed by her last teacher, who did not like the physical changes in Senta during puberty. At the age of five she started ballet lessons. With him, Senta first appeared on stage at the age of four, where he accompanied his daughter's singing on the piano.

Her father, from whom she probably inherited talent, was a musician. Senta Berger's parents were not rich, but tried everything to meet the desires of their daughter. Senta Berger (born May 13, 1941, in Vienna) is an Austrian actress and producer.