Mariella Ahrens | |
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![]() Mariella Ahrens | |
Born | |
Nationality | German |
Occupation | Actress |
Spouse(s) | Jost Paffrath (div.) Patrick Alexander Hubertus Graf von Faber-Castell (div.) |
Partner | Dragan Banić (sep.) |
Children | 2 |
Mariella Ahrens (born 2 April 1969) is a Russian-born German actress.
Ahrens was born in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), Soviet Union, as the daughter of Reinhard Ahrens, a German computer specialist, and wife Svetla Ahrens, a Bulgarian ophthalmologist. [1] [2] She grew up to the age of three in Bulgaria and then moved in 1974 to Berlin-Friedrichshain in East Germany.
After a previous cancellation by the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts, she completed her education as an actress at Fritz-Kirchhoff-Schule in Berlin.
Ahrens first appeared on stage at the Kleine Theater in "Palais Podewils" in Berlin.
In addition to roles in television series such as Leipzig Homicide , Sabine! and Im Namen des Gesetzes , she also played in the ZDF production The Desert Rose (2000) as well as The Dreaming (2001) and Rosamunde Pilcher films.[ citation needed ]
In 2004 she was a participant in "Ich bin ein Star - Holt mich hier raus!. [3]
In 2015 she played Walpurga von Schwarztal in the television movie Prinzessin Maleen .
Ahrens was photographed for the March 2001 issue and as a cover girl for the March 2004 issue and for the April 2025 issue of the German Playboy magazine. [4] [5]
In 1999, Ahrens gave birth to her daughter Isabella Maria in a relationship with Croatian derivative trader Dragan Banić. [8]
In 2001, Ahrens married investment banker Jost Paffrath. One year later they separated [9] and divorced in 2004.
On 12 December 2006, Ahrens married Patrick Alexander Hubertus Graf von Faber-Castell, born in Düsseldorf on 4 June 1965, in a civil ceremony in New York City, New York. Although she has since been called "Countess von Faber-Castell", she continues to call herself Ahrens. [10] [11] [12] The couple met each other at the wedding of Verona and Franjo Pooth in Vienna in September 2005 and was engaged since September 2006. The church wedding took place on 7 July 2007 at the Martin Luther Church in Schloss Stein, Stein at Nuremberg. Ahrens' daughter was adopted by Patrick Graf von Faber-Castell. Their daughter Lucia Marie Christina was born in Berlin in March 2007. [13] On 5 November 2012, the couple announced their split "due to different views of life". [14] They divorced in 2015.