Gerit Kling (born 21 April 1965) is a German film, television and voice actress.

Gerit Kling
Kling in 2018
Born (1965-04-21) 21 April 1965 (age 59)
OccupationActress
Years active1972–present
Known forNotruf Hafenkante
Spouses
Stefan Henning
(div. 2016)
Wolfram Becker
(m. 2016)
RelativesAnja Kling (sister)
Websitegeritkling.com
Tobias Schulze (left), Astrid Rashed (center) and Gerit Kling (right)on the stage of the Kudammtheater (2009)

Life and work edit

Kling grew up in Michendorf-Wilhelmshorst near Potsdam with her younger sister, actress Anja Kling. Her first acting role was in Konrad Wolf's Goya at the age of five. From 1982 she studied acting at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin. After a string of engagements at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, at the Theater Brandenburg and at the Mecklenburg State Theatre, she fled with her sister to West Germany shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall. After German reunification, she was on stage at the Staatstheater Nürnberg and the Theater am Kurfüstendamm in Berlin. She also starred in multiple TV shows, where she was often cast as a doctor. At the Störtebeker Festival she played the Duchess van Dooren in 2006.

In March 2008 she was on the cover of the German edition of Playboy.[1][2]

Personal life edit

Gerit Kling lives with her sister Anja Kling in Michendorf-Wilhelmshorst.

She separated from her husband Stefan Henning at the end of 2015 and got divorced from him in March 2016. In June 2016, she got engaged to Wolfram Becker whom she married on 9 November 2016.[citation needed]

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Other works edit

  • 2004: Unser großes Haus (children's book with CD)

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