Lara in 2016, photo by Prphotos.com
Birth Name: Alexandra Maria Plătăreanu
Place of Birth: Bucharest, Socialist Republic of Romania (now Romania)
Date of Birth: 12 November, 1978
Ethnicity: Romanian
Alexandra Maria Lara is a Romanian-German actress. She has starred in Downfall (2004), The Reader (2008), and Rush (2013), among other movies
Alexandra is the daughter of Doina and Valentin Plătăreanu, an actor, director, and drama teacher. Her family relocated to West Germany in 1983, for escaping Nicolae Ceauşescu’s Communist regime.
Alexandra is married to actor Sam Riley, with whom has one child. In addition to her native Romanian, Alexandra is fluent in German, English, and French.