Larissa Marolt

[4] At the age of 16, Marolt auditioned for Austria's Next Top Model, where she was chosen as one of the ten girls to appear on the TV show.

Despite being a former winner and the audience's favourite, Marolt failed to garner the sympathy of her fellow contestants, which resulted in her isolation from the group.

After she graduated, she went to Berlin where she played the role of Maxi Koenig in the German series Anna und die Liebe.

[7][8] Marolt also plays in the 2013 Austrian horror movie Hopped Up - Friedliche Droge, directed by Michael Fischa,[9] the lead role.

She was selected by the TV viewers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland to eight trials in a row setting a new world record, as no other celebrity in any of the international shows had been chosen that often consecutively.

[12][13] On 8 February 2014, Marolt was honoured by her birth town of Klagenfurt with a reception and received from its mayor Christian Scheider the 'Special Lindwurm Award'.

[20] From mid-September 2014, Marolt would join Peter Rapp, Oliver Pocher and Petra Frey on the jury of the fourth season of ORF's talent show Die große Chance.

[24] The head of RTL Television, Frank Hoffmann, announced on 17 July 2014 that filming of a docudrama centering on the life of Marolt had started.

[26] In January 2016, Marolt shared the first place at the styling contest Promi Shopping Queen by the German television channel VOX with the actor Thomas Held.

Marolt (second from the right) with the other finalists of Germany's Next Topmodel 2009
Marolt 2014 at the premier of her film Rise Up! And Dance in Vienna
Lake Klopein