Uta Kargel (born May 28, 1981 in Halle (Saale)) is a German Playboy model., actor, and voice actor
Uta Kargel was born in Halle (Saale) in the former GDR and later moved to East Berlin with her family. She started modelling at the age of 18. After school she first finished her job training as a bookseller. At the same time she started acting in the stage group Grüner Hund that she had cofounded in 2002.
On television Kargel had her breakthrough with the role as Lena Bachmann in the German soap opera Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten, where she appeared in 487 episodes until she left in 2006. Kargel started studying culturology., which she paused for two years when she got a leading role in the soap opera Sturm der Liebe. After 2011 Kargel worked in the patient's library of the Charité and as a school aide at a primary school, while she finished her studies with a master's degree. With a few of her friends the founded BiK Pictures, an independent film company, which produced its first feature film Kartenhaus with Kargel in one of the leading roles in 2017 with the help of crowdfunding. After returning to Sturm der Liebe for just seven episodes in 2017, her role became continuous, when she returned again in March 2018. As a voice actress, Kargel dubs roles voiced by Bai Ling.