{{short description|German actress and comedian (born 1970)}} {{Multiple issues| {{BLP one source|date=December 2010}} {{BLP sources|date=December 2010}} }}
{{Infobox person | name = Esther Schweins | image = Esther_Schweins_2012-02-24_2.jpg | caption = Esther Schweins, 2012 | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1970|04|18|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Oberhausen]], [[West Germany]] | website = [http://www.estherschweins.de/ www.estherschweins.de] }} '''Esther Schweins''' (born 18 April 1970 in [[Oberhausen]]) is a German [[actress]] and [[comedian]] who became famous through her appearances on the ''[[RTL Samstag Nacht]]'' show for which she won the [[Bayerischer Fernsehpreis]] in 1994. [[File:2012-05-31 Studio Hamburg Nachwuchspreis DSCF0371.jpg|thumb|left|Esther Schweins (2012)]]
Schweins survived the [[2004 Indian Ocean earthquake]] whilst on holiday with her mother in [[Sri Lanka]].<ref name="bm">{{cite web|url=http://www.morgenpost.de/printarchiv/berlin/article336354/Esther_Schweins_kehrt_Freitag_aus_Sri_Lanka_zurueck.html|title=Esther Schweins kehrt Freitag aus Sri Lanka zurück|work=[[Berliner Morgenpost]]|date=5 January 2005|accessdate=30 March 2010|language=de}}</ref>
She provided the German voice of Princess Fiona for the dubs of the [[Shrek (franchise)|''Shrek'' franchise]].
She has a daughter (born 2007) and a son (born 2008) with a farmer from Mallorca in Spain whom she hasn't married because she does not believe in marriage.<ref>{{cite news |last=Hofmann |first=Esther |date=2014-09-06 |title=Warum Esther Schweins nicht heiraten möchte |url=http://www.bz-berlin.de/leute/warum-esther-schweins-nicht-heiraten-moechte |work=BZ Berlin |access-date=2019-11-09}}</ref>
In 2018, she played British suffragette and political activist [[Emmeline Pankhurst]] in the German docudrama ''We are half the World'' (''Die Hälfte der Welt gehört uns'') about the women's suffrage movement in Germany, France and the United Kingdom.<ref>{{cite press release |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=2017 |title=We are half the World |url=https://gebrueder-beetz.de/en/productions/wearehalftheworld |publisher=gebrueder geetz filmproduktion |access-date=2019-11-09 |archive-date=2022-03-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220317223339/https://gebrueder-beetz.de/en/productions/wearehalftheworld |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Selected filmography== * ''[[The Superwife]]'' (1996) * ''Sisters from Hell'' (1997) * ''{{ill|Höllische Nachbarn (film)|de|3=Höllische Nachbarn (Film)|lt=Höllische Nachbarn}}'' (1998, TV film) * ''{{ill|Klassentreffen – Mordfall unter Freunden|de}}'' (2001, TV film) * ''Die fabelhaften Schwestern'' (2002, TV film) * ''{{Ill|The Calling Game|de|Die Anruferin}}'' (2007) * ''Whispers of the Desert'' (2012, TV film) * ''[[Mara and the Firebringer]]'' (2015)
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == {{Commons category|Esther Schweins}} * {{Official website|http://www.estherschweins.de/}} {{in lang|de}} * {{IMDb name|0777806|Esther Schweins}} * Esther Schweins has practiced yoga since she was 12 years old. Arte Documentary https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/083923-003-A/sacred-varanasi {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221109021741/https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/083923-003-A/sacred-varanasi/ |date=2022-11-09 }} {{Authority control}}
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