"Polizeiruf 110"-Kommissarin: Chantal de Freitas ist tot

Pop singer, television Commissioner, Stage Actress: Chantal de Freitas dominated many genres. With her husband and fellow Kai Wiesinger they ran a production company. Now the actress has died at the age of 45 years.

Hamburg - viewers know Chantal de Freitas mainly from thrillers. Her breakthrough came when Commissioner Carol Reeding in the series"Police 110" .

Other roles had Chantal de Freitas about in "stump" or the "crime scene" . In 1995, she was in the movie "Talk of the Town" on the big screen to see in the direction of Rainer Kaufmann - alongside colleagues likeKatja Riemann August Zirner, Martina Gedeck , Moritz Bleibtreu and her husband Kai Wiesinger.Beside him and Ulrike Folkerts they had before, "The Leihmann" already played in the comedy. The filmography of the actress can be found on their website where they have their theater performances are recorded. Chantal de Freitas was educated accordingly at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt as well as at the Circle in the Square Theatre School in New York.

In recent years, born in Kiel and raised in New York actress had mainly focused on their musical goals. In autumn 2010 her debut album "Independence" was released. "The feeling to sing their own songs, to me is a completely different roles to play - it feels naked, pure in itself, is more intimate," de Freitas said of her singing career.

Her longtime friend and fellow actor Kai Wiesinger married Chantal de Freitas in January 1998, and since 1999, she ran with it the production company "Arranque film production." The couple has two daughters, Lara and Poni-Valene. Last year, Wiesinger and de Freitas had surprisingly separately.

Now Chantal de Freitas has died at the age of 45 years. About the circumstances of her death is not yet known so far.

Credits: spiegel online