Ulrike Mai  Ulrike Mai (born 6 January 1960 in Dresden, East Germany as Ulrike Kunze) is a German television, movie, voice and theater actress. Among her native German she speaks English, French and Russian languages. From 1978 to 1981, Ulrike Kunze studied at "Ernst Busch Drama School" in Berlin. In 1980, she became famous in the USSR after appearing as Anna Mons in Sergei Gerasimov's movies "The Youth of Peter the Great" and "At the Beginning of Glorious Days" after Aleksey Tolstoy's "Peter the Great" novel. Having succeeded her studies in Berlin, she acted in Magdeburg's theater until 1984 and then continued her performing career in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt. In 1987, Ulrike Kunze got a job at DDR-FS (a state owned channel in East Germany). It was the same year she married a German actor and director whose last name she took. From 2005 to 2007, Ulrike Mai appeared as "Helga Plenske" in ViB series.