Larissa Marolt

LarissaAntonia Marolt is an Austrian model and actress She won the first season of the casting show Austrias Next Topmodel in 2009 In November 2009 Marolt landed her first acting role with a guest appearance on the Sat1 daily soap Eine wie keine Starting in January 2010 she appeared in the ProSieben reality series Die ModelWG though she left the shared model house in the second episode to focus on her education After passing her Matura schoolleaving exams at the St Ursula Gymnasium in Klagenfurt in 2010 she was accepted into the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York where she studied from 2011 to 2013 From February 9 to August 2011 she played the supporting role of Maxi König in 128 episodes of the Sat1 telenovela Anna und die Liebe In January and February 2014 she participated in the German reality show Ich bin ein Star Holt mich hier raus the German version of Im a CelebrityGet Me Out of Here on RTL finishing in second place Across all international adaptations of the format she holds the record for being voted into the most consecutive Jungle Trialsa total of eight On February 8 2014 she was presented with the Special Lindwurm Award by Klagenfurt Mayor Christian Scheider In 2013 she filmed her first feature movie the Austrian dance film Rise Up And Dance by Barbara Gräftner in which she played a supporting role The film premiered in Vienna on March 11 2014 From March 28 to May 16 2014 she competed in the RTL show Lets Dance finishing in fourth place with her dance partner Massimo Sinató In April 2014 she was awarded a Romy prize for the Most Exciting Television Moments On June 17 2014 she was honored with the New Face Award at the Madonna magazine Leading Ladies Awards in Vienna On July 18 2014 she received a Walk of Fame star on the lakeside promenade in St Kanzian am Klopeiner See On August 2 2014 she appeared on the show Schlag den Star where she competed against Annica Hansen and lost