Iris Berben

Iris Renate Dorothea Berben (pronounced [ˈiːʁɪs ˈbɛʁbm̩] ⓘ, born 12 August 1950) is a German actress.

Until today, Berben plays leading roles in a large number of German television productions, including the sitcom Zwei himmlische Töchter in the 1970s and the comedy show Sketchup with Diether Krebs in the 1980s.

One of her best-known roles is the title character, a no-nonsense police commissioner, in the long-running crime series Rosa Roth between 1994 and 2013.

After the Six-Day War in 1967, she travelled to Israel, and afterwards became the partner of the Israeli singer Abi Ofarim.

She served as a SPD delegate to the Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the President of Germany in 2017.

Berben in 2010