Radost Bokel
Radost Bokel ( born June 4, 1975 in Bad Langensalza ) is a German actress.
Life and career
At the age of five years Radost Bokel moved in 1980 with her mother and brother from their hometown ( Halle an der Saale ) to Frankfurt am Main, after her mother had asked for an exit visa from the former GDR. In Frankfurt Bokel visited the Schiller School, a high school, and completed her high school diploma. At that time she gained her first stage experience: she spent the afternoon in a nursery, with whom she appeared as Eliza in My Fair Lady as well as Mowgli in the jungle book in performances in nursing homes.
As a nine- year-old is Bokel applied to an audition to fill the title role in the located at that time in planning adaptation of Michael Ende 's classic Momo. The casting took place in Frankfurt / Höchst im home by Rosemarie Fendel instead, who collaborated on the script, as well as Michael Ende himself Bokel, the youngest of the thousands of applicants who got the part and spent 1985 three and a half months in the Italian film city Cinecittà in Rome, where the movie with famous actors like John Huston, Mario Adorf and Armin Mueller-Stahl was shot in English. Ms. Fendel stood her throughout the shooting time as acting coach and mentor to the side. For the role of Momo, the Bokel made known to the general public for the first time, it was, inter alia, Bambi (1986 ), the Francois Truffaut - Prize ( 1986) and the Bravo Otto Award in Bronze (1986).
In 1986, Bokel at the cinema adaptation of Johannes Mario Simmel Please let the flowers live on the side of Klaus Jürgen Wussow and Hannelore Elsner little Patty disabled. Another theater production followed in 1997 with the first semester, in the Christian Kahrmann also participated.
In 1987 she stood at the side of actors like Andie MacDowell, Michael York and Ben Kingsley, who played her father in the international adventure series The Secret of the Sahara in Morocco before the camera. Many other roles in television productions followed, including in the years 1988/1989 turned on the show rivals the racetrack, for Bokel with Thomas Fritsch and Jutta Speidel. She also worked in various crime series with, for example in the scene, at the investigators, Wolff's Turf, SOKO Kitzbühel and 2007-2011 on the side of Rainer Hunold in the prosecutor.
In January 2012 Bokel participant of the sixth season of the RTL reality show I'm a Celebrity was - get me out of here! and finished 7th. In summer 2012 she played the role of Winnetou's sister Nscho -chi at the Karl May Festival in Elspe.
Besides her work as an actress Bokel was in 1986 working as a spokesperson by the girl Roskva in the Danish Cartoons " Walhalla " lent her voice. Later the audiobooks " wind dreams " ( Jando ) and was followed by " Cathy 's Book " (Sean Stewart). Since 2013 they toured, supported by fellow actor Jean -Marc Birkholz, with a Momo reading by Germany. published in 2004 Bokel the single " free to Be " and received as early as 1997 in the journal MAX ( June issue ), a photo gallery in the magazine FHM ( November 2004 issue ). 2008 was followed by another series of photos in Maxim ( December issue ) and 2013 in Playboy ( September issue ).
From 2008 closed marriage to the American soul singer Tyler Woods she has a son born in 2009.
Volunteering
Radost Bokel is mainly engaged in animal welfare, where they (eV alliance against abuse of animals) the organizations BMT supports and Tasso eV. So they visited, for example, animal shelters of the BMT and served in 2012 as the patron of Tasso action " Golden Paw 2012", which was held under the motto " animal and child." Radost Bokel owns two dogs.
Filmography
Theater
- 2012: Karl May Festival Elspe (role: Nscho -chi )