Career
Initially educated as a nurse, Karina Kraushaar started a career as a photo model in 1992. In 1997 she took acting and diction at the Stage School of Hamburg and began to appear on German television in a variety of roles. She played in the series Alphateam, Bullen von Tölz, Stubbe - Von Fall zu Fall, Klinik unter Palmen, Alarm für Cobra 11 and the Rosamunde-Pilcher-movie Blumen im Regen.
In the ZDF-Series Hallo Robbie! she played a marine biologist called Carla Dux.
She also hosted the television show Love Stories. Kraushaar was found unconscious in her apartment in Hamburg-Eppendorf on March 5, 2015.
She died the same day due to multiple organ failure at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf.