Birgit Doll

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Birgit Doll (9 March 1956 – 26 October 2015) was an Austrian actress and theatre director. She began her professional acting career at age 20 with the Salzburger Landestheater and later performed at Vienna’s Volkstheater. She studied German and theatre in Vienna and trained at the Max Reinhardt Seminar.

Doll won several major awards for her work on stage and screen. She received the Kainz Medal in 1992 for Libussa and the Nestroy Theatre Prize in 2000 for Martha in Wer hat Angst vor Virginia Woolf. She also earned Best Actress awards at the Bavarian Film Awards (1979) and the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (1980) for Tales from the Vienna Woods. Her film roles included Tales from the Vienna Woods (1979), Dantons Tod (1981), Charlotte (1981), The Seventh Continent (1988), and Suzie Washington (1998). She acted on television and directed theatre productions such as Hamlet (2004), The Merchant of Venice (2008), and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2009). Doll suffered a severe stroke and died in 2015 at age 59. Critics noted her extraordinary stage presence and her affinity for strong, independent female characters.