My background is a small town with no movie theater. So... I always pictured myself onstage. I went to acting school and learned all the skills. I left early because I did my first movie and discovered that I really loved the minimalistic work with the camera.

He was hidden behind leaves and stuff. When 17 years old Franka Potente spent a few months as an exchange student in Humble Texas United States. She admitted in an interview Franka Potente "had an American boyfriend went to football games and to my American prom.

After half a decade of critically acclaimed roles in German films Potente went on to garner the role of Barbara Buckley in Blow (2001) and as Jason Bourne's love interest in the Bourne film series. She first appeared in the comedy After Five in the Forest Primeval (1995) for which Franka Potente won a Bavarian Film Award for Best Young Actress and her breakthough came in 1998 when Franka Potente had the leading role in the acclaimed action thriller Lola rennt (released in English as Run Lola Run) (1998). Franka Potente (born July 22 1974) is a German film actress and singer.