Gerit Kling

Kling grew up in Michendorf-Wilhelmshorst near Potsdam with her younger sister, actress Anja Kling. Her first acting role was in Konrad Wolf's Goya at the age of five. From 1982 she studied acting at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin. After a string of engagements at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, at the Theater Brandenburg and at the Mecklenburg State Theatre, she fled with her sister to West Germany shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall. After German reunification, she was on stage at the Staatstheater Nürnberg and the Theater am Kurfüstendamm in Berlin. She also starred in multiple TV shows, where she was often cast as a doctor. At the Störtebeker Festival she played the Duchess van Dooren in 2006. In March 2008 she was on the cover of the German edition of Playboy. == Personal life ==