1. Was born Franziska Weisz on May 4, 1980 in Vienna. However, she grew up in the small community of Breitenfurt, a few kilometers from the capital.
2. She got into the film by chance. She actually wanted to model, but her agency sent her to a film casting. Director Ulrich Seidl jumped at the chance and cast her in his dark suburban study “Dog Days”. In it she plays a young woman who is constantly humiliated by her boyfriend. Franziska Weisz became famous overnight with this role.
3. In the same year the Austrian director hired her Michael Haneke for his film adaptation of Elfriede Jelinek’s novel “The Piano Player”.
4. In 2005 she received a nomination for the Austrian Film Prize Romy in the category “Most Popular Female Shooting Star”, but the award went to the German actress Tanja Wedhorn.
5. She was named “Shooting Star” at the Berlinale in 2005.
6. She proved that she deserved this award in 2010 when she traveled to the Berlinale. This time as the main actress in the competition entry “The Robber”. In the film, Weisz plays the partner of the bank robber Johann, who is played by Andreas Lust – with whom she gets along well in private.
7. She has been with him since 2012 Director Felix Herzogenrath with whom she met while filming the ZDF series “Die Bergretter”. The couple married in the summer of 2015.
8. In addition to acting, the Viennese also does music: she is the singer the Viennese cover band Jawoi, which continues to perform despite Franziska Weisz’s acting successes.
9. She is trained business economist. She studied in Vienna, Leicester and at the renowned King’s College in London, where she received a Master’s degree in Development and Environment.
10. From March 20, 2016, Franziska Weisz was an investigator on the NDR “Tatort”. She follows Petra Schmidt-Schaller as partner of Wotan Wilke Möhring, with whom she is also a personal friend. With her case “What Remains,” which aired on New Year’s Day, the actress says goodbye to her role as Inspector Julia Grosz.