Check out Isa Andersen, real name Isa Jank, a German actress known for playin’ Clarissa von Anstetten on “Verbotene Liebe” (Forbidden Love).

She kicked off her career in Hollywood back in the ‘80s, actin’ alongside James Belushi in “Real Men” and poppin’ up in “Nightangel”, “Cheers”, and “Airwolf”.

By ‘92, Isa switched things up, droppin’ her U.S. gigs to head back to Germany for a role in the legal drama “Liebling Kreuzberg”.

In ‘94, she jumped into “Verbotene Liebe” as Clarissa von Anstetten, stickin’ around for nearly three years before gettin’ written out in a wild kidnappin’ plot that lasted six months. She came back, stayed two more years, but things got messy with the show’s producers by late ‘99. After a quick two-month break, she returned in February 2000, but the trust was gone, and she peaced out for good in summer 2001 after a big showdown with her rival Tanja von Anstetten, played by Miriam Lahnstein. Clarissa’s plane crash exit left folks wonderin’ if she was really gone, and even when Lahnstein returned in 2004, the show kept it vague.

In October 2005, Isa hit the screen again as the shady Annabelle Gravenberg in the ZDF telenovela “Wege zum Glück”. The role felt a lot like Clarissa, and fans kept askin’ about her old gig. She rocked that part for three years until Annabelle’s on-screen death in November 2008, right before the show wrapped.

Since “Wege zum Glück” and “Verbotene Liebe” were both cooked up by Grundy UFA, the internet was buzzin’ with talk that Isa Jank might slide back into her old role as Clarissa. “Verbotene Liebe” was strugglin’ with weak storylines at the time and could’ve used a character like Clarissa to shake things up, but Isa shut down any talk of a comeback. No clue if she even sat down with the show’s producers. Still, over two years later, in early 2011, Das Erste dropped the news that Isa Jank was returnin’ as Clarissa. She popped back up in June 2011 for a six-month special shot on the Spanish island of Mallorca before rejoinin’ the crew in Cologne.