Sonja Kirchberger was born November 9, 1964 in Vienna, Austria. From 1974 to 1978 she was a dancer in the Ballet of the Opera in Vienna (Wiener Oper). She became popular to the European public as Coco, a sensuous but dangerous seductress in the 1988 German blockbuster Die Venusfalle / The Venus Trap. Till now she was to be seen in about 40 movies, some Italian and French productions, but mostly in German TV/cinema.