Sophia Thomalla

In December 2017, there was criticism for a promotional photo for a gambling provider. Thomalla was scarcely clothed tied to a cross. The President of the Central Committee of German Catholics and the Cultural Commissioner of the Evangelical Church criticized the photo. In the talk show Maischberger, Sophia Thomalla said about the #MeToo campaign: "I think the campaign is an insult to the true rape victims." These incidents and other comments about the #MeToo campaign sparked criticism.

Also in 2016, Sophia Thomalla sat in the jury, next to DJ BoBo and Cale Kalay of the RTL dance show Dance Dance Dance. From autumn she was on the jury of the tattoo show Pain & Fame on Sixx, where the best tattoo artists in Germany competed. In September 2016, she brought out a shoe collection.

Thomalla dated Rammstein singer Till Lindemann from April 2011 to November 2015. On 11 March 2016, she married Norwegian singer Andy LaPlegua in Marietta, Georgia. In May 2017, she announced their divorce.

In 2014 she advertised for the cosmetic product line of the discounter Lidl and the following year for its fashion brand. She took over the additional hosting at the Wok World Cup broadcast on ProSieben in March and at the TV total Stock Car Crash Challenge in October 2015. On January 30, 2015, she hosted the 10th SemperOperball in Dresden alongside Gunther Emmerlich. On March 2, 2015, she appeared on the talk show Hart but Fair, which dealt with the issue of gender equality. She had been heavily criticized for her appearance on the show. On 8 September 2015, the issue of equality at Hart but fair in the same cast, supplemented by two other guests, was discussed again.

In 2010 she was ranked third in the list of FHM Sexiest Women. Like her mother, Sophia Thomalla was also photographed for the German edition of Playboy. The pictures were released in May 2012. In Playboy 10/2015 with the title Germany's 25 most beautiful stars, she was portrayed together with her mother and 23 other women like Christine Theiss, Tina Ruland, Regina Halmich, Katarina Witt, Charlotte Engelhardt and Miriam Gössner. Sophia Thomalla took first place in the online selection of the most beautiful title star of the last 25 years.

In 2009 she applied for an open casting for the top model casting show Germany's Next Top Model; she retired in the first round. In 2009 and 2010, she was in the Sat.1 Daily Soap One Like No other with Chris Putzer. She was a candidate at Let's Dance and won there, together with her dance partner Massimo Sinató, the title of Dancing Star 2010. In 2011, she was a jury member of ProSieben casting show The PokerStars.de with Sandra Naujoks and Thomas Lamatsch. In 2012, she appeared in the ensemble of the comedy series Die Dreisten Drei - now even brazen on Sat.1 alongside Oliver Beerhenke and Mirco Nontschew.

In the autumn of 2009, she moved back to Berlin for professional reasons and moved to Potsdam in October 2010. She has been a supporter of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) political party since 2012.

From 2007 to 2009, she attended the Constantin School for Acting, Dance and Singing in Bochum. In 2006, she played her first television role as the daughter of Barbara Rudnik and Henry Hübchen with television director Sigi Rothemund in the ARD crime series Commissario Laurenti.

Sophia Thomalla (born 6 October 1989) is a German actress, model, and presenter.

Thomalla was born in East Berlin (then in East Germany) on 6 October 1989, the daughter of actors Simone Thomalla and André Vetters. She grew up in Berlin until she was seven and moved to Cologne with her mother. After completing her fourth year of school, she and her mother moved to Kleinmachnow, then to Gelsenkirchen a year later. She also lived there after the separation of her mother from Rudi Assauer. Like her mother, Thomalla practised kickboxing as a recreational sport; she also partook in some amateur fights.