Background
Karoline Herfurth was born in East Berlin, East Germany, the daughter of a psychologist mother and a geriatric nurse practitioner father. She grew up in Berlin with a brother and five half-brothers and -sisters.
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Karoline Herfurth
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She went to a Waldorf school in Berlin and graduated from Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts.
Career
Her parents divorced when she was two years old. Herfurth had her first role in a television series at age ten, and her first part in a movie in 2000, when she was fifteen. She has held several parts as a teenager in German movies such as Mädchen, Mädchen (2001) and Big Girls Don"t Cry (2002) and leading parts both in television productions and independent German films.
Herfurth gave her international debut in 2006 in Perfume: The Story of a Murderer.
In this adaptation of Patrick Suskind"s best-selling novel Das Parfum, she played the "Plum Girl", the first victim of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille. Herfurth has spoken out opposing Pegida.
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Germany East Germany