Profile
Senta Berger
Actor
Female
Born
May 13, 1941
Age
72
Hometown
Vienna
Senta Berger is an Austrian film, stage and television actress, producer and author. Regarded by critics as one of the greatest actresses of the post-war period, and frequently named as one of the leading German-speaking actresses in polls, Berger has… Read More
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Senta Berger
Age 72
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Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1941
Birth
Born on May 13, 1941.
TEENAGE
1957
16 Years Old
Berger also took private acting lessons. In 1957, she won her first small role in one of the final films directed by Austrian auteur Willi Forst.
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1958
17 Years Old
In 1958, she became the youngest member of the Josefstadt Theatre in Vienna.
TWENTIES
1962
21 Years Old
Bernhard Wicki and Arthur Brauner produced the film The Good Soldier Schweijk with Berger and the German actor Heinz Rühmann. Brauner used Berger in several films, but she soon tired of musicals. In 1962, she went to Hollywood and worked with stars such as Charlton Heston, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Richard Widmark, John Wayne, and Yul Brynner.
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1963
22 Years Old
In 1963, Berger met Michael Verhoeven, son of the German film director Paul Verhoeven (not to be confused with the Dutch Paul Verhoeven). They started their own film production company in 1965. In 1966, Senta and Michael married.
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Berger married director and producer Michael Verhoeven in 1966.
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1967
26 Years Old
In 1967, Berger acted in the pilot movie for the Robert Wagner television series It Takes a Thief, which aired on American television network ABC on January 9, 1968.
1969
28 Years Old
She reprised her role in the series in October 1969, in an episode in which her character was killed off.
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THIRTIES
1974
33 Years Old
Between 1974 and 1982, she played the “Buhlschaft” in the play Jedermann at the Salzburg Festival with Curd Jürgens and Maximilian Schell.
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FORTIES
1985
44 Years Old
In 1985–86, Berger started a comeback in front of German-speaking audiences in the TV serial Kir Royal.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
2005
64 Years Old
In the same year, she also started a career as a singer of Chansons. 2005 saw her in the film, Einmal so wie ich will, as a woman trapped in an unhappy marriage who finds love on holiday, but turns her back on the relationship.
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2006
65 Years Old
In the spring of 2006, Berger's autobiography was published in Germany: Ich habe ja gewußt, daß ich fliegen kann ("I Knew That I Could Fly").
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