Laura Maori Tonke (born April 14, 1974, in West Berlin) is a German actress. Laura Tonke is the daughter of film set decorator Michael Tonke. She studied theater studies in Berlin until 1996. At the age of 17, she made her on-screen debut in Michael Klier's feature film *Ostkreuz*. Numerous roles in feature films and television movies followed. Additionally, she is booked as a model for lifestyle and fashion magazines. Since the spring of 2007, she has performed on stage in productions by the theater collective Gob Squad at Berlin's Volksbühne (and the Volksbühne im Prater), as well as at other theaters. In 2000, Tonke was awarded the Lilli Palmer Memorial Camera for Best Young Actress. In 2003, she was nominated for the German Film Award for her portrayal of Gudrun Ensslin in Christopher Roth's feature film *Baader*. In the tragicomedy *Hedi Schneider steckt fest* (Hedi Schneider Is Stuck) by Sonja Heiss—which premiered at the 2015 Berlinale—she plays the title character, a woman plagued by sudden anxiety attacks. Her performance garnered enthusiastic reviews; *Der Spiegel*, for instance, wrote: "She inhabits the role of Hedi Schneider [...] so convincingly and perfectly—as if it had been written specifically for her." At the 2016 German Film Awards ceremony, Tonke received a double honor. She won in both the Best Actress category for her role in *Hedi Schneider steckt fest* and the Best Supporting Actress category for the film *Mängelexemplar* (2016). Laura Tonke lives in Berlin and has a son.

Filmography

• 2027Komplizinnen - Vernunft ist keine Lösung — Vera
• 2027Windstärke 17 — Andrea
• 2026How Can I Help — Emi
• 2026Oh, This Unspeakable Void — Mother Iris
• 202522 Lengths — Andrea
• 2025Amrum — Hille
• 2025Long Story Short — Ellen
• 2025The Diaries of Adam and Eve
• 2025The Prank — Maria Roosen
• 2024Everything's Fifty Fifty — Marion
• Sexuell verfügbar — Miki Walter
• 2024Zwischen uns der Fluss
• 2023Caveman — Claudia Müller
• 2023Jupiter — Barbara
• 2023Maret — Yvonne
• 2023When Will It Be Again Like It Never Was Before — Iris
• 2022A E I O U – A Quick Alphabet of Love — Laura
• 2022My Life as Lotta - Okey Dokey Alpaca — Sabine
• Jenseits der Spree — Daniela Bajetzky
• Kranitz - Bei Trennung Geld zurück — Astrid
• 2020Kein einfacher Mord — Nina Lieberstein
• The Island — Merit Ponz
• 2019Jupiter — Barbara
• 2019My Life as Lotta - Bingo Flamingo — Sabine Petermann
• 2019TKKG — Erna Sauerlich
• 2019Totgeschwiegen — Nele
• 2018Bist du glücklich? — Sonja
• 2018Mission: Love — Laura
• 2018So viel Zeit — Steffi
• 2017Axolotl Overkill — Anika
• 2017The Garden — Eva
• 2016Too Hard to Handle — Anna
• 2015Hedi Schneider Is Stuck — Hedi Schneider
• Neben der Spur — Elisa Ritter
• 2015On the Beach — Laura
• 2015Take What You Can Carry — Laura
• 2015The People vs. Fritz Bauer — Ms. Schütt
• The Valley — Christine Schreibe
• Murder by the Lake — Melanie Rademann
• 2014Worst Case Scenario — Meike
• 2013Mord in den Dünen — Cornelia Braun
• 2012Leichtmatrosen II
• Letzte Spur Berlin — Andrea Roth
• 2011Headshots — Anna
• 2011The Drifter — Ann
• 2010Bedways — Luise Walther
• 2010Madly in Love — Leo
• Die Bergretter — Bettina Dieme
• 2009Viva Europa! — Lola
• Der Bergdoktor — Andrea
• 2007After Effect
• Contergan - Eine einzige Tablette — Franziska Steiner
• Day of Disaster — Katharina Wolters
• Deadline – Jede Sekunde zählt — Laura Sehrbundt
• KDD - Kriminaldauerdienst — Nicole Ries
• 2007Zwei Goldfische
• Kommissar Stolberg — Susan Schumann
• 2006Sunday Girls
• Der Staatsanwalt — Nadine Wolf
• 2005I Am Guilty — Christiane Steeb
• 2005In a Sweatbox — Monika Stauffenberg
• 2005Warum Ulli sich am Weihnachtsabend umbringen wollte — Astrid
• 2004Farland — Karla
• 2003Hamlet_X — Ophelia 4
• K3 – Kripo Hamburg — Alena Kranach
• 2003Pigs Will Fly — Inga
• 2002Baader — Gudrun Ensslin
• Das Duo — Wiebke Sander
• 2002Gangster — Mona
• 2002June Moon — Nele
• 200199€ Films
• 2001Dich schickt der Himmel — Lara Feiersinger
• 2001Herz — Gisela Kenter
• Donna Leon — Mara
• 2000Ebene 9 — Nina
• 1999Bitter Innocence — Vanessa Krüger
• 1999Der Mörder meiner Mutter — Anne / Marie
• 1999Dragonland — Marie
• Klemperer – Ein Leben in Deutschland — Judith Kraithaim
• 1998Angel Express — Jill
• 1998Der Pirat — Sabine
• Der letzte Zeuge — Anette Albrecht
• 1998Just Married — Frangipani, geb. Klein
• 1998Silvester Countdown — Käthe
• 1997Geisterstunde - Fahrstuhl ins Jenseits — Lisa
• Schimanski — Nina
• 1997Silver and Gold
• 1997Winter Sleepers — Nina
• 19962 ½ Minuten — Sabine
• 1996Gnadenlos - Zur Prostitution gezwungen — Milena
• Ein starkes Team — Ira
• Im Namen des Gesetzes — Angela Matthes
• 1994Turn Down the Music — Anne
• Roller Coaster — Jenny
• Wolffs Revier — Tanja
• 1991Eastern Cross — Elfie
• Polizeiruf 110 — Annegret Wegner, Jeanette Kreuz
• Scene of the Crime — Mimi Meinders, Paula Wimberg, Angelika Meyer, Anna Korzius, Amelie Scholder, Miriam, Steffi, Sonja Kofler, Patti Schmidt, Judith Kovacic
• Die Kobra von Wingen
• Hamburg Days — Nielsa Kirchherr

Appearances as themselves (8)

• Markus Lanz — Self
• Stilbruch — Self
• ZIBB — Self
• Morgenmagazin — Self
• DAS! — Self
• Goldene Kamera — Self
• Kölner Treff — Self
• German Film Award — Self