birth_place birth_date yearsactive birthname article_title name occupation
straupitz , germany 16 august 1952 1968-present isa andersen isa jank
 isa jank actress
isa jank

isa andersen -lrb- actual name isa jank -rrb- is a german actress .
she is best known for her role as clarissa von anstetten on `` verbotene liebe -lrb- forbidden love -rrb- '' .
isa started her career in hollywood in the middle of the 1980s .
she played at james belushi 's side in `` real men '' and other roles in nightangel , `` cheers '' and `` airwolf '' .
in 1992 , she decided to take a turn in her career and accepted a role in the popular legal drama `` liebling kreuzberg '' .
for that she put her career in the united states to rest and returned to germany .
in 1994 , isa joined the cast of the german soap opera `` verbotene liebe -lrb- forbidden love -rrb- '' .
she played the role of clarissa von anstetten for almost three years before she was temporarily written out in a successful kidnapping storyline , which went on for almost six months .
isa returned to the show and stayed another two years .
in late 1999 , jank started having disagreements about her character but returned as planned after an eight-week break on-screen in february 2000 .
at this time the trust between jank and the producers of the show seemed already broken and she left the show permanently in the summer of 2001 in a high-profile exit storyline , where clarissa got her final battle with archenemy tanja von anstetten , played by miriam lahnstein .
after a plane crash the character was presumed dead but even with lahnstein 's return in 2004 , the show refused to confirm to the death of clarissa .
in october 2005 , isa jank returned to television taking the role of the antagonist annabelle gravenberg in the zdf telenovela `` wege zum glück '' .
annabelle showed many similarities to clarissa and jank was even asked more often about her old role on `` verbotene liebe '' .
jank stayed with the telenovela for three years until annabelle died on-screen in november 2008 , shortly before the show ended .
because `` wege zum glück '' was produced by grundy ufa , the same production company responsible for `` verbotene liebe '' , rumors circled around the web that jank eventually would return to her old show as clarissa .
the show itself showed lack of quality in storyline at this time and was in need of a character like clarissa , but isa jank debarred the chance of a comeback .
it is not known if meetings between the producers of `` verbotene liebe '' and jank even took place .
however more than two years later , in early 2011 , das erste announced isa jank 's return as clarissa .
she first reappeared in june 2011 and was part of a six-months special that was filmed on the spanish island mallorca , before joining her colleagues in cologne .
