Elke Winkens

Elke Winkens
Elke Winkens (2015)
Born (1970-03-25) 25 March 1970 (age 54)
Linnich, Westphalia, West Germany
OccupationActress
Years active1995–present

Elke Winkens, née Fischer (born 25 March 1970) is an Austrian-German actress. She grew up in Germany in the district Ratheim in Hückelhoven. Because of her father's work the family moved to The Netherlands and Belgium; for some time she also resided in Africa.[1] At the age of six she took ballet classes and at the age of nine she started performing on stage. Afterwards she performed in many dance and theater acts. From 1978 to 1986 she was a professional gymnast and won several titles in floor exercise.[2]

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.[3]

Elke Winkens in 2009

In 2003, Winkens posed for the German edition of Playboy magazine[4] and in 2008, she participated in the celebrity dancing show Dancing with the Stars which was broadcast on ORF.[5] She was voted off just one week before the final.[6]

  1. ^ Daniela Giess. "Hückelhoven: Elke Winkens Gast in der alten Heimat". RP ONLINE. Archived from the original on 12 January 2017. Retrieved 16 April 2016.
  2. ^ Der Spiegel 24 September 2004 Elke Winkens: Titel im Bodenturnen erringen
  3. ^ "Kommissar Rex einsatz fuer Elke Winkens". ots.at. Retrieved 16 April 2016. Archived 26 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ "Elke Winkens". IMDb. Archived from the original on 1 August 2009. Retrieved 25 October 2022.
  5. ^ news networld Internetservice GmbH. "- Elke Winkens ist raus: Semifinal-Show derDancing Stars lässt". news.at. Archived from the original on 4 June 2016. Retrieved 16 April 2016.
  6. ^ Daniela Giess. "Hückelhoven: Opernball mit Elke Winkens". RP ONLINE. Retrieved 16 April 2016.