Felicitas Woll grew up in
Harbshausen (Hesse). She took an apprenticeship as a nurse, but became an actress after she met the theatrical agent Frank Oliver Schulz. After a casting session she was cast and appeared in the TV Series
Die Camper, subsequently remaining with the show for three years. In 1998 she began taking acting lessons at the
Düsseldorfer Tanzhaus (
Düsseldorf Dance House) under Wladimir Matuchin. She plays piano, guitar and keyboards and gained theatrical experience as a singer. After her role as 'Tanja Ewermann' in
Die Camper, she was cast in
Für alle Fälle Stefanie and
Hamann-Spezial. At the end of 1999 she appeared in the starring role in the German-Chinese Co-Production
True Love Is Invisible (a TV series) and in a family series for Germany's second public service TV channel,
ZDF (
Nesthocker – Familie zu verschenken). Success continued in 2001 with
Mädchen, Mädchen by
Dennis Gansel, her breakthrough. The biggest success in her early career was as 'Lolle', acting with Jan Sosniok (Sven Ehlers), his best friend Hart (Matthias Klimsa) and Lolles best friend Sarah (Rhea Harder), in the
ARD pre-prime time show
Berlin, Berlin, which won the 2002
Deutschen Fernsehpreis, the 2003
Adolf-Grimme-Preis and in 2004 the
Goldene Rose von Lucerne for best female actress in a sitcom. For
Berlin, Berlin she received an
Emmy in 2004. In 2004 she played 'Mia', the female lead role in ''''. 2005 saw her appear in the ZDF co-production
Dresden (original title
The Fire). In the film, a young German nurse (Woll), falls in love with a wounded English bomber pilot (played by
John Light) on the eve of the
destruction of the city by allied bombers in February 1945. The movie was filmed in
Dresden's rebuilt city centre as well as at the railway station (also rebuilt) and in other parts of Dresden. Other scenes including the ones in
Theaterplatz square and at the
Fürstenzug mural, were filmed in
Chemnitz and at an industrial estate in
Cologne, in order to use remote studios to film the larger fire scenes, such as the firestorm. The film, in which
Heiner Lauterbach and
Wolfgang Stumph also star, was broadcast in two parts on 5 March and 6 March 2006. In 2005 Woll supported the cause of people with
Down syndrome (Trisomie 21) in a billboard campaign of the DS-Infocenter charity. Campaign billboards and post cards pictured her with her younger brother, Tassilo, who was born with Down syndrome. The wording on the posters read: "A brother with Down's Syndrome is sometimes like hell. Just like every other brother in fact." Having announced her pregnancy in November 2005, she gave birth to a daughter named Taisha Valentina on 14 February 2006. In 2008, Woll portrayed Wörterfee, a new character on the German adaptation of
Sesame Street (
Sesamstraße). In 2011, she played
Bertha Benz in the ARD TV movie ''''. ==Filmography==