Ingrid Caven is a German film actress and singer. Her younger sister Trudeliese Schmidt (1943–2004) was an opera singer and also an actress.
Caven has appeared in over 50 films since her film debut in 1969 in the short film Fernes Jamaica followed by her first featured film Liebe ist kälter als der Tod (Love Is Colder Than Death) directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, to whom she was briefly married (1970–72).
Her career was at its peak in the 1970s and early 1980s mostly in film. In 1979, she was