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Mavie Hörbiger was born in Munich in 1979. She belongs to a family with a long acting tradition, including her father Thomas Hörbiger and her famous grandfather Paul Hörbiger, as well as her first cousin once removed Christiane Hörbiger and her cousin Christian Tramitz.
Already as a teenager, she acted on TV, and she made her feature film debut with a small part in the comedy "Das merkwürdige Verhalten geschlechtsreifer Großstädter zur Paarungszeit" (1998), followed by a role in Nico Hofmann's thriller "Solo für Klarinette" (1998). After graduating from school, Hörbiger took acting classes in Munich. On stage, she performed at the Theater Basel and the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna, and in the 2011/2012 season she became a company player at the Wiener Burgtheater.
In addition to her stage career, Hörbiger continued to appear in film and TV productions. After some supporting roles, she had her breakthrough in Detlev Buck's dark comedy "LiebesLuder" (2000), playing a cunning femme fatale in rural Germany. She received an Austrian Romy-Award for her performance in the TV comedy "Vier Meerjungfrauen" (2001), starred opposite Gérard Depardieu and Sebastian Koch as Queen Marie-Louise of Austria in the period drama "Napoleon" (2001, TV), and played the lively daughter of the titular character in Hark Bohm's two-part TV movie "Vera Brühne" (2001).
After parts in the romantic comedy "100 Pro" (2001) and Nicolette Krebitz' directorial debut "Jeans", she played the friend of an alleged Islamic terrorist in Elmar Fischer's "Fremder Freund" (2003). She next embodied Little Red Riding Hood in Otto Waalkes' fairy tale spoof "7 Zwerge - Männer allein im Wald" (2004), was cast in the role of Lena for Uli Edel's TV adaptation of the saga "Die Nibelungen" (2004), and starred alongside Barbara Rudnik and Karoline Eichhorn in the acclaimed drama "Drei Schwestern: Made in Germany" (2005).
Mavie Hörbiger had a recurring role in the TV sitcom "Arme Millionäre", for which she received a nomination for the Romy-Award. She then displayed her dramatic talent as the wife of an industry tycoon in Carlo Rola's miniseries "Krupp – Eine deutsche Familie" (2009), and as a homicidal psychopath in the thriller "Die Schatten, die dich holen" (2010). This was followed by roles in the crime caper "Kottan ermittelt - Rien ne va plus" (2010), the box office hit "What A Man" (2011) and the "Tatort" episode "Willkommen in Hamburg" (2013) starring Til Schweiger.
After a small, yet memorable turn in "Coming In", Mavie Hörbiger starred as a con artist who unknowingly tries to bluff a contract killer in the 2014 release "Die Einsamkeit des Killers vor dem Schuss".
In the children’s film "Bibi & Tina: Voll verhext!" (2014), she portrayed a police commissioner, while in the comedy "Halbe Brüder" ("Half Brothers," 2015), she played the exasperated wife of one of the title characters. For her role as a single mother in the "Tatort" episode "Die letzte Wiesn," Hörbiger was nominated in 2016 by the German Academy of Television for Best Supporting Actress.
In Helene Hegemann’s "Axolotl Overkill" (2016), she had a central role as a reckless party girl, followed by a part as Moritz Bleibtreu’s wife in the stoner comedy "Lommbock" (2017). Also in 2017, she was part of the ensemble in the award-winning drama "Sommerhäuser" ("The Garden"), playing a member of a family torn by conflict.
In 2019, she appeared in a supporting role in Christian Alvart’s thriller "Steig.Nicht.Aus!" ("Don't. Get. Out!") and starred in the TV drama "Ich brauche euch," directed by Max Färberböck. In the latter, she portrayed a free-spirited woman forced to care for her murdered sister’s children.
In February 2021, Mavie Hörbiger was among the 185 lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, non-binary, and trans* signatories of the #actout manifesto, participating in a mass coming-out on the cover of Süddeutsche Zeitung’s magazine. Initiated by Karin Hanczewski, Godehard Giese, and Eva Meckbach, the initiative aimed to combat discrimination and advocate for greater visibility and diversity in theater, film, and television.
In the same year, she played a supporting role as the ex-girlfriend of the main character in the six-part series "Ich und die Anderen" ("Me and the Others," 2021). At the Salzburg Festival, she took the stage as both God and the Devil in "Jedermann" in 2021 and 2022, having previously portrayed the character of Good Works there from 2017 to 2020. Starting in 2024, she became part of the Vienna Burgtheater ensemble, appearing in productions of "Peer Gynt" and "The Misanthrope."
On television, Hörbiger starred in an episode of the TV series "Hubert ohne Staller" ("Im Auftrag des Teufels," 2024) as an escaped psychiatric patient. On the big screen, she played a lead role of a feminist politician in the gender satire "Die geschützten Männer" ("The Protected Men," 2024).