Born July 15, 1976· Algermissen, Lower Saxony, West Germany [now Germany]
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Raised in Algermissen, West Germany, she pursued ballet at the Royal Academy in Hanover and later refined her technique at the Royal Ballet School in London, before a knee injury redirected her ambitions toward modeling. Winning the 1992 Elite Model Look competition launched a brief but high-profile runway career in Paris and New York, after which she shifted to acting in the late 1990s. Her early…