Nina Hoss
Date of birth: 1975-07-07
Place of birth: Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany [now Germany]
Known for: Acting
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Biography
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.
Movie Credits
The Elementary Particles
2006-02-10
Based on Michel Houellebecq's controversial novel, Atomised (aka The Elementary Particles) focuses o
TÁR
2022-09-23
As celebrated conductor Lydia Tár starts rehearsals for a career-defining symphony, the consequences
Yella
2007-09-13
A young East German woman leaves her husband and business partner and relocates to a West German cit
Naked
2002-09-02
The story of three couples, one of which just broke up, one that seems to be about to, and one perfe
The Heart Is a Dark Forest
2007-12-27
A woman's life is destroyed when she discovers that her husband has another family.
A Girl Called Rosemarie
1996-10-25
Katja Flint, Hannelore Elsner and Heiner Lauterbach star in this German film about a woman who climb
Bella Figura
2015-11-27
Bella Figura is a play where the stage direction "flottement" (a suspension, indeterminacy, or oscil
The Fundraiser
2023-02-23
An accompanying short film to TÁR (2022).
The White Masai
2005-09-14
A girl, Carola, whose vacation in Kenya takes an interesting turn when she becomes infatuated with a
Jerichow
2009-01-08
In a small town in Northern Germany, a penniless German veteran is offered a job as a deliveryman by
The Anarchist's Wife
2008-06-26
Manuela is left behind when her husband Justo fights for his ideals against Franco's Nationalists du
A Woman in Berlin
2008-10-23
A woman tries to survive the invasion of Berlin by the Soviet troops during the last days of World W
Kinder der Sonne
Bitte nach Mitte!
2019-11-21
The documentary sketches the essence and impact, history and present of the Berlin drama school "Ern
Selbstbeschreibung
2001-12-08
Georg Stefan Troller, born in Vienna in 1921, crossed half of Europe as a refugee only to return wit
We Are the Night
2010-10-28
One night, 18 year old Lena is bitten by Louise, leader of a female vampire trio that are as deadly
For Ever
2023-05-04
Eva and Dieter danced together for the first time in the winter of 1952. They got married, built a h
Hedda
2025-10-22
Hedda Gabler finds herself torn between the lingering ache of a past love and the quiet suffocation
Barbara
2012-03-08
In 1980s East Germany, Barbara is a Berlin doctor banished to a country medical clinic for applying
Wolfsburg
2003-09-25
Philipp Gerber is a smart, but self-satisfied car salesman. In an inattentive moment at the wheel of
Summer Window
2011-11-03
Juliane's happiness seems perfect. She is head over heals in love and has just begun a new life with
A Most Wanted Man
2014-07-25
A Chechen Muslim illegally immigrates to Hamburg and becomes a person of interest for a covert gover
Something to Remind Me
2002-05-31
Middle-aged lawyer Thomas meets Leyla at the pool. After their paths keep crossing, he asks her out
Gold
2013-02-09
Canada, the summer of 1898. A group of German settlers travel towards the far north in covered wagon
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
2023-09-27
On behalf of a multinational company, a production assistant drives around the Romanian city of Buch
Hannah
2007-09-06
A picturesque blonde beauty constructs an impenetrable emotional wall that neither her parents, her
Rider of the Flames
1998-05-26
Feuerreiter is an elegant period drama that begins in Frankfurt in 1796. Through his friend, Baron v
Phoenix
2014-09-25
German-Jewish cabaret singer Nelly survived Auschwitz but had to undergo reconstructive surgery as h
And Nobody Weeps For Me
1996-02-29
Between 1924 and 1934, six children grow up in an apartment building in the Munich suburbs. Among th
Trained to See – Three Women and the War
2022-10-24
During the Second World War, women were for the first time allowed to work as war correspondents. Ba
The Volcano
1999-10-21
A singer flees from Nazi Germany, travels to Paris and befriends a young writer, his lover and a pro
Die Geiseln von Costa Rica
2000-01-27
The German tourist Kiki and the Swiss tour guide Marlies are kidnapped by Contra rebels from Nicarag
Epsteins Nacht
2002-11-10
Jochen Epstein is released from prison after serving 15 years for murder. He is determined to emigra
Love Your Female Neighbor!
1998-12-24
Two young and attractive social workers/nuns bring fresh air into a city missionary station, but are
Foreign Language
2024-09-11
Fanny, a shy and lonely teenager, goes on a language exchange to Germany. In Leipzig, she meets her
Emilia Galotti
2002-01-01
TV adaptation of Michael Thalheimer's production at the Deutsches Theater Berlin.
Love/Work/Cinema: A Conversation with Christian Petzold and Nina Hoss
2016-04-26
New conversation between director Christian Petzold and actor Nina Hoss
The Making of A Most Wanted Man
2015-02-27
Behind-the-scenes look at making the film adaptation of John le Carré's A Most Wanted Man.
Baden-Württemberg von oben
2015-03-26
Cicadas
2025-06-19
The story of a friendship between two dissimilar women: On the one hand, single mother Anja, who tri
The Making of 'Phoenix'
2014-01-01
2014 documentary featuring interviews with Petzold, Hoss, actors Nina Kunzendorf and Ronald Zehrfeld
Return to Montauk
2017-05-11
Author Max Zorn, now in his early 60s, is on a promotional book tour in New York when he encounters
Geschichte einer Liebe – Freya
2017-04-06
Freya Deichmann's life undergoes a radical change when she meets Helmuth James von Moltke at the age
The Kleist File
2011-03-16
Kleist's death at Wannsee - a spectacular case that has disturbed and fascinated posterity to this d
Pelican Blood
2020-09-24
Wiebke, a professional horse trainer, faces a unique challenge when she adopts Raya, a five-year-old
Jedermann Remixed
2011-07-31
Based on archive holdings from nine decades, director Hannes Rossacher has created a complete Jederm
The Audition
2019-11-06
Anna teaches violin at a music school, her husband is an instrument-maker. They have a 10-year-old s
My Little Sister
2020-09-03
Berlin playwright Lisa follows her husband Martin to Switzerland, where he manages a private school.
The Contractor
2022-03-10
After being involuntarily discharged from the U.S. Special Forces, James Harper decides to support h
Une journée à la mer
2020-04-15
A short story about the incestuous relationship of brother and his sister Agatha returns to the seas
The Other Side
Since losing her family, a woman is living alone in the wilderness — far away from society, which is
Hedda Gabler
2013-05-01
German adaptation of the Ibsen play, filmed live at the Deutsches Theater (Berlin).
The Julia Set
Julia, a gifted mathematician, navigates the cutthroat world of academia. Pascal, a teaching assista