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Nina Hoss
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Nina Hoss (born July 7, 1975) is a German stage and film actress.
Hoss acted in radio plays at the age of seven and appeared on stage for the first time at the age of 14.
In 1997 she graduated from the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin. Her first major success was the title role Rosemarie Nitribitt of Bernd Eichinger's A Girl Called Rosemary in 1996, a period drama (based on an actual scandal) set in the 1950s that looks back at the days of West Germany's postwar Wirtschaftswunder with a curdling cynicism.
In 2000 she was one of the Shooting Stars at the Berlinale. Her close collaboration with director Christian Petzold has been extremely successful: she won the 2003 Adolf Gr…
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Nina Hoss (born July 7, 1975) is a German stage and film actress. Hoss acted in radio plays at the age of seven and appeared on stage for the first time at the age of 14. In 1997 she graduated from the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin. Her first major success was the title role Rosemarie Nitribitt of Bernd Eichinger's A Girl Called Rosemary in 1996, a period drama (based on an actual scandal) set in the 1950s that looks back at the days of West Germany's postwar Wirtschaftswunder with a curdling cynicism. In 2000 she was one of the Shooting Stars at the Berlinale. Her close collaboration with director Christian Petzold has been extremely successful: she won the 2003 Adolf Grimme Award for her role in his film Something to Remind Me and two years later the Adolf Grimme Award in Gold for Wolfsburg. Her performance of Yella, earned her the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2007 and the German Film Award in 2008. Another collaboration with Petzold, Barbara, in which Hoss plays a doctor exiled to an East German provincial backwater in 1980, premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2011 and the Toronto International Film Festival in 2012.
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Nina Hoss's Filmography
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Each Day in a Moment: 2026
as Self (uncredited)
National Theatre Live: Electra/Persona
as Electra (Elisabeth) / Clytemnestra (Alma)
Die andere Seite
as Hanna
The Julia Set
Grönemeyer – Alles bleibt anders
Hedda
as Eileen Lovborg
Cicadas
as Isabell
Foreign Language
as Susanne
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
as Doris Goethe
For Ever
The Fundraiser
as Sharon Goodnow
Trained to See – Three Women and the War
as Martha Gellhorn (voice)
TÁR
as Sharon Goodnow
The Contractor
as Katia
Pelican Blood
as Wiebke
My Little Sister
as Lisa
One Day at the Sea
as Agatha
Bitte nach Mitte!
as Self
The Audition
as Anna Bronsky
Return to Montauk
as Rebecca
Geschichte einer Liebe – Freya
as Freya von Moltke
Love/Work/Cinema: A Conversation with Christian Petzold and Nina Hoss
as Self
Bella Figura
as Andrea
Baden-Württemberg von oben
as Erzähler
The Making of A Most Wanted Man
as Self
Kinder der Sonne
as Jelena Nikolajewna
Phoenix
as Nelly Lenz
A Most Wanted Man
as Irna Frey
The Making of 'Phoenix'
as Self
Hedda Gabler
Gold
as Emily Meyer
Barbara
as Barbara
Summer Window
as Juliane Kreisler
Jedermann Remixed
as Buhlschaft (archive footage)
The Kleist File
as Narrator
We Are the Night
as Louise
A Woman in Berlin
as Anonyma
Jerichow
as Laura
The Anarchist's Wife
as Lenin
The Heart Is a Dark Forest
as Marie
Yella
as Yella Fichte
Hannah
as Hannah Morgan
The Elementary Particles
as Jane
The White Masai
as Carola Lehmann
Wolfsburg
as Laura Reiser
Epsteins Nacht
as Paula
Naked
as Charlotte
Something to Remind Me
as Leyla
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Emilia Galotti
as Countess Orsina
Selbstbeschreibung
as Claudia
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Die Geiseln von Costa Rica
as Kiki
The Volcano
as Marion von Kammer
Love Your Female Neighbor!
as Liz
Rider of the Flames
A Girl Called Rosemarie
as Rosemarie Nitribitt
And Nobody Weeps For Me
as Marilli Kosemund
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Rivo Alto
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