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Had an illegitimate son, Benedikt Johann Percy, with British journalist Ralph Izzard.

German leading lady of stage and films who first performed as a member of Berlin's Deutsches Theater under legendary director Max Reinhardt.

In the 30s and 40s Hoppe had many contacts with Nazi elitism and was an infrequent dinner guest of Adolf Hitler. Her career managed to survive the Nazi regime.

Grew up on her father's estate "Felsenhagen" in Mecklenburg.

Considered Germany's best paid actress until the end of World War II.

From the 1950s on, appeared in contemporary theatre works, including those by Thomas Bernhard, who became her partner in private life.

She was a very active stage actress and played in Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Bochum and with the Berlin Ensemble.

Never filmed or worked in Hollywood. In fact, very few of her films were even released in America.

She performed well into old age. Her last performance on stage was at the age of 88 in "The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui" in Berlin.

The documentary Die Königin - Marianne Hoppe (2000) by Werner Schroeter deals with her moving life and career.

Studied acting from the age of seventeen under the actress Lucie Hoeflich and at the Deutschen Theater in Berlin under Max Reinhardt.

Made her stage debut in 1928 at the Berliner Buehne der Jugend. Performed in Frankfurt (1930) and Munich (1932). Was signed to a long-term contract with the Staatlichen Schauspielhaus in Berlin, from 1935 to 1945, under the direction of Gustav Gruendgens.

Her boyish features caused her to be initially cast in masculine roles, as in Schwarzer Jäger Johanna (1934) and Kapriolen (1937). After her performance in Der Schimmelreiter (1934), she became Germany's most sought-after screen tragedienne. Her most famous 'hard-luck' roles were as Effi Briest in Il romanzo di una donna (1939), as Franziska Tiemann in Arrivederci Francesca (1941), and, most importantly, as the sad, doomed Madeleine of La collana di perle (1943).

She lived in the 1970s together with the actress Anni Mewes.