Margit Carstensen (29 February 1940 – 1 June 2023) was a German theatre and film actress, best known outside Germany for roles in the works of film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Carstensen was born and raised in the northern German city of Kiel. Upon graduation from the local high school in 1958, she studied acting at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg. This education led to her first stage appearances in Kleve, Heilbronn, Münster...
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The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
As Petra von Kant
Martha
As Martha
Agnes and His Brothers
As Roxy
Possession
As Margit Gluckmeister
Chinese Roulette
As Ariane Christ
Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
As Frau Thälmann
The 120 Days of Bottrop
As Self
Satan’s Brew
As Andree
Fear of Fear
As Margot
It Is Fine! Everything Is Fine.
As Linda Barnes
100 Years of Adolf Hitler – The Last Hour in the Führerbunker
As Martha Goebbels
The Third Generation
As Petra Vielhaber
La moitié de l'amour
As Ivy
Tenderness of the Wolves
As Frau Lindner
Terror 2000
As Margret
Finsterworld
As Frau Sandberg
Bremen Freedom
As Geesche Gottfried
The Coffee House
As Vittoria
Manila
As Regine Gorler
The Ancestress
As Berta
Angry Harvest
As Eugenia
Die wilden Fünfziger
As Sekretärin
Hands off Mississippi
As Frau Strietzel
The Niklashausen Journey
As Margarete
Mister Karl
As Self
Women in New York
As Sylvia Fowler
Adolf and Marlene
As Marlene
Shattered Glass
As Käthe
Liebeskonzil
As Staatsanwältin
Fassbinder: Love Without Demands
As Self (archive footage)
Fassbinder
As Self
Nora Helmer
As Nora Helmer
Gesche's Poison
As Mutter Timm
Sun Alley
As Direktorin
John Gabriel Borkman
As Gunhild
Rider of the Flames
As Sinclair's mother
Der Narr und seine Frau heute Abend in Pancomedia
As Die Leserin
Spiel der Verlierer
As Frl. Rosner
Eine Kirche der Angst vor dem Fremden in mir
Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence
As Self (archive footage)
Anwalt Abel
As Frau Nussbauer
Derrick
As Frau Hauser
Scene of the Crime
As Margarethe
Deutscher Filmpreis
As Self
Bayerischer Filmpreis
As Self
Vorsicht Falle!
Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day
As Erste Hausfrau
World on a Wire
As Maya Schmidt-Genter
Berlin Alexanderplatz
As Angel #1