Elke Winkens
At the age of eighteen she got a scholarship at the London Studio Centre in London, where she was stationed between 1989 and 1991. Then she moved to Vienna and participated in the Musical School at the Theater Vienna where she studied song, dance and acting. Later she joined the cabaret performance group Die Hektiker which made her known. She got her first TV acting job in the series Cell-O-Fun which was broadcast between 1996 and 1997, and then the series called One in 1998. In 2002, she acted in the crime series Inspector Rex where she played the character Niki Herzog.
In 2003, Winkens posed for the German edition of the mens magazine Playboy and in 2008, she participated in the celebrity dancing show Dancing with the Stars which was broadcast on ORF. She was voted off just one week before the final.
In 2025, she acted in an Austrian film How to Be Normal and the Oddness of the Other World, which was selected in Perspectives at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival and will be screened in February 2025.
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