Elke Winkens

Elke Winkens, née Fischer, is an Austrian-German actress for film and television. She made her name in Vienna with the cabaret group Die Hektiker before TV work in Cell-O-Fun. Elke Winkens went nude in Kommissar Rex and Klinik Unter Palmen, and earlier in Hart Im Nehmen (2000). She was born on 25 March 1970 in Linnich, Germany. At eighteen she won a scholarship to the London Studio Centre, where she trained from 1989 to 1991. Her best-known role is Niki Herzog, whom she played in 2002 in the crime series Inspector Rex. In 2008 she lasted until the week before the final on ORF's Dancing with the Stars. In 2025 she appeared in the Austrian film How to Be Normal and the Oddness of the Other World.