Background
German was born in Huntington Beach, California.
German was born in Huntington Beach, California.
She attended Los Alamitos High School, and the Orange County High School of the Arts.
She had her first major role in the 2002 romantic drama film A Walk to Remember, followed by roles in the horror films The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) and Hostel: Participant II (2007). German later had a recurring role as Agent Lori Weston in the Columbia Broadcasting System police drama Hawaii Five-0, and starred in the National Broadcasting Company drama Chicago Fire as Leslie Shay from 2012 to 2014. In 2016, she began starring as Detroit
Chloe Decker in the Fox fantasy comedy-drama Lucifer.
German"s father is a vascular surgeon. She later enrolled at the University of Southern California, studying anthropology.
German"s first work was on stage in Peter Pan and Oliver. In 2000, she made her feature film debut in the romantic comedy Down to You, where she had a small role as a lovestruck woman.
In 2002, German co-starred in the romantic drama A Walk to Remember with Shane West and Mandy Moore, based on Nicholas Sparks" 1999 novel of the same name.
She played Belinda, whom Landon Carter (West) breaks up with. Then she appeared in the crime horror film Dead Above Ground, the drama A Midsummer Night’s Rave and the television movie The Lone Ranger, in which she had both smaller and bigger roles. German co-starred in the crime drama Born Killers (2005), the thriller Rx (2005), the romantic comedy Standing Still (2005), the drama lieutenant Is Fine! Everything Is Fine.
(2007), and the biographical-musical drama What We Do Is Secret, the latter as original Germs drummer and subsequent The Go-Go"s singer Belinda Carlisle.
She starred in the horror film Hostel: Participant II, produced by Quentin Tarantino. She also starred in the French apocalypse thriller The Divide.
German starred in the Columbia Broadcasting System police drama Hawaii Five-0 as Agent Lori Weston from 2011 to 2012. She starred in the National Broadcasting Company drama Chicago Fire as Leslie Shay, one of the paramedics from 2012 to 2014.
In 2016, German began co-starring with Tom Ellis in the fantasy comedy-drama Lucifer as Chloe Decker, a LAPD homicide detective who finds herself both repulsed and fascinated by Lucifer (Ellis).
The series premiered on January 25, 2016 on Fox, loosely based on the District of Columbia comic book series of the same name.