Rita Russek

Biography

Rita Russek is a German actress and director born on June 27, 1952, in Eschwege. She studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main before joining the ensemble of the Residenztheater des Bayerischen Staatsschauspiels München. Russek worked with notable directors like Luc Bondy and Ingmar Bergman, and was nominated for a Molière-Theaterpreis in 1996 for her direction of Szenen einer Ehe.