Theatre and film actress Magdalena Wiedenhofer was born in Basel into a family of opera singers. She is also a trained yoga teacher and certified therapist for trauma-sensitive bodywork. Magdalena lives in Berlin.
She began her career at the Châtelet de Paris at the age of seven as the ‘Petite Fille’ in ‘60e Parallèle’. Further productions followed in Germany. At the age of 17, she worked as a freelance assistant director in Germany and France and directed her first plays. From 2009 to 2013, she studied acting under the artistic direction of Luk Perceval at the Academy of Performing Arts Baden-Württemberg in Ludwigsburg, during which time she received her first permanent engagements at the Staatstheater Wiesbaden and Münchner Volkstheater and shot her first short films with the Filmakademie Ludwigsburg.
She has worked with film directors Maurice Hübner, Shirel Peleg, Elke Hauck, Samira Radsi, Kai Wessel and Connie Walter, as well as theatre directors Falk Richter, Lilja Ruprecht, Christian Stückl and Mina Salehpour.
Magdalena Wiedenhofer continues to appear in the theatre in Der Hauptmann von Köpenick at the ATZE Musiktheater Berlin and Die Dreigroschenoper as Polly Peachum at the Münchener Volkstheater. In 2025, she played a highly acclaimed version of Don Juan at the Monbijou Theatre in Berlin, directed by Wolfgang Michalek.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, she got her certificate as a trauma-sensitive body therapist in 2021 and as a yoga teacher in 2022.