Trivia

Had her first television role acting opposite René Ifrah and Jürgen Prochnow in Die Kinder meiner Tochter (2013).

Studied acting in Paris, Oxford and London. Holds a DPhil in Comparative Literature (Oxford).

Had her first acting job working together with Daniel Brühl, dubbing French-Canadian movie The Dog Who Stopped the War (1984) in German in the early 1990s.

Wrote and filmed her first short film _Fanmail (2012)_, in which she played the lead role opposite Michael Epp.

Her family name "Effertz" is pronounced like the plural of the English word "effort".

Grew up speaking English, French and German, as is fully trilingual.