Bernadette Heerwagen is a German actress. She began acting aged sixteen and since co-starring in the 1999 production Der Schandfleck, for which she was awarded the Bayerischer Fernsehpreis Sonderpreis in 2000, Heerwagen has gone on to play in a variety of leading and supporting roles in German and Austrian television films, dramas and in European cinema. In 2004 her leading performance in Gr��e Aus Kaschmir took her to greater prominence within Germany and France. She has twice won Best Actress award at the Adolf-Grimme-Preis, in 2005 and 2008, and has won Best Actress at the Bayerischer Fernsehpreis in 2000. In 2010 she starred in Die Kommenden Tage alongside Daniel Br�hl and earned the nomination for Best Leading Actress at the German Film Awards in 2011. Heerwagen has one brother, Philipp Heerwagen, born in 1983, who is a professional soccer player for the German football team FC St. Pauli. 

June 22nd, 1977 in Bonn (Age 47)