Makatsch was born in Düsseldorf, Germany, the daughter of former German national ice hockey team goaltender Rainer Makatsch. She spent several months in New Mexico in 1988 in an effort to improve her English, and later studied politics and sociology at the University of Düsseldorf for four semesters, which was followed by an apprenticeship as a dressmaker until 1994. Her television career started in 1993, when she was hired by music channel VIVA, hosting shows such as Interaktiv and Heikes Hausbesuche; two years later, on August 13 1995, she became the host of the German chart show BRAVO TV, aired by RTL II, a position she kept until summer 1996. In 1997 she started hosting her own weekly, late night show titled Heike Makatsch Show. However, due to bad ratings, it was cancelled after only eight episodes. Makatsch first appeared in a movie in 1996, when she starred in Detlev Buck's Männerpension (English: "Jailbirds"); she received the Bavarian Film Award as most talented young actor for her performance. Since then, she has appeared in several German and English language productions.
Gender
Female
Birthday
1971-08-13
Place of birth
Düsseldorf, Germany
Love Actually
2003
7.11
Keine Lieder über Liebe
2005
5.80
Resident Evil
2002
6.64
Aimée & Jaguar
1999
6.80
Anatomy 2
2003
5.70
Naked
2002
5.40
Gripsholm
2000
5.79
Kroos
2019
6.10
A Sound of Thunder
2005
4.90
A Goddamn Job
2001
3.50
Tara Road
2005
5.37
Schwesterherz
2007
0.00
Hilde
2009
5.40
Hui Buh: The Castle Ghost
2006
5.86
Das Wunder von Lengede
2003
5.80
Love Your Female Neighbor!
1998
7.00
Zero
2021
4.90
Margarete Steiff
2005
7.30
Männerpension
1996
5.50
Nachts im Park
2002
6.50
Akiko, the Flying Monkey
2025
0.00
Late Night Shopping
2001
6.30
The Door
2009
6.21
Das Gelbe vom Ei
1999
7.50
Dr. Hope
2009
7.00
Tails You Win, Heads You Lose
1999
5.30
Obsession
1997
4.00
Schade um das schöne Geld
2008
5.00
Tom Sawyer
2011
5.90
Homecoming
2012
5.30
Sechzehneichen
2012
5.70
The Book Thief
2013
7.50
Back on Track
2013
7.30
Longitude
2000
7.25
The Adventures of Huck Finn
2012
5.90
Männer und andere Katastrophen
1999
5.00
About a Girl
2015
6.80
Wir machen durch bis morgen früh
2014
4.40
Everything is Love
2014
5.60
Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution
2007
6.70
Twice New Life
2016
6.40
Familie auf Bestellung
2004
5.50
The Announcement
2000
0.00
The Pasta Detectives 3
2016
5.73
Benjamin the Elephant
2019
4.60
Strange Daughter
2017
3.80
Teenosaurus Rex
2017
5.38
Speechless
2016
7.00
Am I Beautiful?
1998
6.82
I've Never Been to New York
2019
6.03
Zielfahnder: Blutiger Tango
2019
6.00
9 Days Awake
2020
6.20
God, You’re Such a Prick
2020
6.30
Slava der Hund
2024
0.00