Eva Mattes

Eva Mattes (; born 14 December 1954) is an Austrian-German actress. She has appeared in four films directed by director Rainer Werner Fassbinder (''The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant'', '''', ''Effi Briest'' and ''In a Year of 13 Moons''). In '''' (1984), she played a bearded film director, based on the recently deceased Fassbinder.

She has also appeared in two films of Werner Herzog, with whom she was in a relationship. Mattes also appeared in ''Germany, Pale Mother,'' and in ''Enemy at the Gates'' as the mother of Sasha Filippov. On television, she has played Klara Blum in the police procedural series ''Tatort''.

Mattes lives in Berlin with Austrian artist Wolfgang Georgsdorf and two children. Provided by Wikipedia