Larissa Marolt

Larissa-Antonia Marolt is an Austrian model and actress. She won the first season of the casting show *Austria’s Next Topmodel* in 2009. In November 2009, Marolt landed her first acting role with a guest appearance on the Sat. 1 daily soap *Eine wie keine*. Starting in January 2010, she appeared in the ProSieben reality series *Die Model-WG*, though she left the shared model house in the second episode to focus on her education.

After passing her *Matura* (school-leaving 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 Sat. 1 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 *I’m a Celebrity…Get 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 Trials"—a 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!