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Friederike Becht was born in Winden in 1986. After studying acting at the Universität der Künste in Berlin from 2004 until 2008, she starred in numerous stage productions at theatres in Hamburg, Zurich, Berlin and Freiburg. In 2010, she became a company player at the Schauspielhaus in Bochum.
Friederike Becht's first screen credits included supporting roles in "Der Vorleser" ("The Reader", 2008) and the biopic "Mein Leben - Marcel Reich-Ranicki" (2009, TV). She got her first leading role in the 2011 drama "Westwind", in which she plays a young woman from the German Democratic Republic who falls in love with a West-German.
She went on to play the young Hannah Arendt in Margarethe von Trotta's eponymous 2012 biopic, followed by supporting turns in the comedy "Das Millionen Rennen" (2012) and the drama "Der Wagner-Clan. Eine Familiengeschichte" (2013). After appearing in "Im Labyrinth des Schweigens" ("Labyrinth of Lies", 2014) and "Becks letzter Sommer" ("Beck's Last Summer"), she got great reviews for her lead performance in the TV biopic "Käthe Kruse" (2015). Her other notable TV credits include "Nachspielzeit" (2015), "Nacht der Angst" (2015) and the miniseries "Der gleiche Himmel" (2017).
On the big screen, Becht starred opposite Frida-Lovisa Hamann in the psychological thriller "Die Vierhändige" ("Four Hands", 2016) which premiered at the 2017 Munich Film Festival.
The following year, Friederike Becht took on a lead role as an investigator in the TV miniseries "Parfum" (2018). In the feature film "Brecht" (2019), she portrayed Marianne Zoff, Bertolt Brecht’s first wife. She also starred as Queen Marie in the fairy tale TV film "Die drei Königskinder," part of ARD’s "Sechs auf einen Streich" series.
Becht’s standout TV performances included her role as a lawyer in the thriller "Ökozid" (2020) and as the best friend of a rape survivor in "So laut du kannst" (2022). Her portrayal of a grieving young mother in "Plötzlich so still" (2020) - a woman who kidnaps another baby after losing her newborn—earned her a nomination for Best Actress at the German Academy for Television Awards. In 2022, she won the German Television Award for her role as a fugitive tracker in the gripping miniseries "Schneller als die Angst" (2021).
On the big screen, Becht delivered a compelling performance in the mother-daughter drama "Geranien" ("On Mothers and Daughters," 2023), which premiered in the Berlinale's Perspektive Deutsches Kino section. She also appeared as the supportive friend of an alcoholic protagonist (played by Frederick Lau) in "One for the Road" (2023). Most recently, in the critically acclaimed and award-winning social drama "Vena" (2024), Becht played a midwife who develops a profound and evolving bond with a pregnant woman struggling with drug addiction.