Bernadette Heerwagen (born 22 June 1977, in Bonn, West Germany) is a German actress. She began acting aged sixteen and since co-starring in the 1999 production Der Schandfleck, for which she was awarded the Bayerischer Fernsehpreis Sonderpreis in 2000, Heerwagen has gone on to play in a variety of leading and supporting roles in German and Austrian television films, dramas and in European cinema. In 2004 her leading performance in Grüße Aus Kaschmir took her to greater prominence within Germany and France.