Natalia Wörner


Natalia Wörner is a German actress.

Biography

After finishing high school in Stuttgart, Wörner moved to New York City, where she studied acting at Lee Strasberg's Actors Studio. In 2000, she returned to Germany where she won a German television award, the Deutscher Fernsehpreis, for best leading actress. She served on the award’s jury in 2001 and 2002.
In 2009, Wörner played the role of Ellen in the TV miniseries The Pillars of the Earth, based on the eponymous book by Ken Follett. In 2012, she was given the role of Rebecca Kendall as one of the "other wives" in Rosamunde Pilcher's The Other Wife.
In addition to her acting career, Wörner has been a goodwill ambassador for German charity Kindernothilfe since 2006. She also served as ambassador of a 2010/2011 Pink Ribbon campaign in Germany. In 2015, Wörner accompanied Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier on an official trip to South Korea and Indonesia. She later was a SPD delegate to the Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the President of Germany in 2017.

Filmography