"Potente" means powerful in Italian, and this up and coming actress is living up to her name. Though Franka Potente has been attracting attention since she was a little girl, it was in the restroom of a local bar that the beautiful Potente was discovered.Born in Dulmen, Germany on July 22, 1974, Potente began training as an actress while in high school in Germany and continued to study her craft while attending high-school in Houston, Texas. For two years (1994-96),she studied at Munich's Otto Falkenberg School of Performing Arts. It was during her schooling in Munich that she earned the
