Nina Hoss

Nina Hoss

Nina Hoss at Berlinale 2013
Born (1975-07-07) 7 July 1975
Stuttgart, West Germany
Citizenship German
Occupation Actress
Years active 1996–present
Known for Barbara (2012), Phoenix (2014), A Most Wanted Man (2014) and Homeland
Partner(s) Alex Silva

Nina Hoss (born 7 July 1975) is a German actress and singer.

Early life

Hoss was born in Stuttgart, West Germany. Nina's father, Willi Hoss, was a German trade unionist and politician (member of the German Bundestag in The Greens). Her mother, Heidemarie Rohweder, was an actress at Stuttgart National Theatre and later director of the Esslingen-based Württemberg State Playhouse (Württembergischen Landesbühne Esslingen).

Career

Hoss acted in radio plays at the age of seven and appeared on stage for the first time at the age of 14.[1]

In 1997 she graduated from the Drama School "Ernst Busch" 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.[2]

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.[3] 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. In a review of her 2009 film Anonyma, The New York Times remarked that Hoss, "whose strong frame and graceful bearing suggest both old-style movie-star glamour and Aryan ideals of feminine beauty, is an actress of haunting subtlety, and the film, episodic, ambitious and a few beats too long, is held together by the force of her performance."[4]

Hoss has been a member of the Juries of the Locarno International Film Festival in 2009, and the Berlin International Film Festival in 2011. She was an ensemble member at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin from 1998 to 2013, where she appeared as Medea and, as Franziska, in Minna von Barnhelm (2005).

In 2012, she was appointed sole judge of the 2012 Alfred Kerr Acting Prize at the Berliner Theatertreffen.[5] In 2013, she joined the ensemble of the Schaubühne theatre in Berlin. She recorded a duet with the Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers called "Europa Geht Durch Mich" [which translates to: "Europe Goes Through Me"] for the album "Futurology", which was released on 7 July 2014.[6]

Social and political commitment

Hoss supports the Make Poverty History campaign and fights female genital cutting. She is quoted as saying, "For me, genital mutilation, torture, is one of the worst crimes in the name of so-called honour on earth. I dream that it will be possible for this form of domination over women to be abandoned."[7] In continuation of the work of her father she is committed as a Goodwill Ambassador of the State of Pará in Brazil against the destruction of the rain forest and to improve the living conditions of the indigenous people living there.[8]

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
1996 Und keiner weint mir nach Marilli Kosemund
1996 A Girl Called Rosemary Rosemarie Nitribitt TV Movie
1998 Fire Rider Marie Rätzer
1998 Love Your Neighbour! Liz
1999 The Volcano Marion von Kammer
2000 Die Geiseln von Costa Rica Kiki TV Movie
2001 Toter Mann Leyla TV Movie
2002 Naked Charlotte
2002 Epstein's Night Paula
2002 Emilia Galotti Countess Orsina TV Movie
2003 Wolfsburg Laura Reiser
2003 Leonce und Lena Prinzessin Lena TV Movie
2005 The White Masai Carola Mamutelil geb. Lehmann
2006 Atomised Jane
2006 Hannah Hannah Morgan
2007 Yella Yella Fichte
2007 The Heart Is a Dark Forest Marie
2008 The Anarchist's Wife Lenin
2008 Jerichow Laura
2008 A Woman in Berlin Anonyma
2010 We Are the Night Louise
2011 Fenster zum Sommer Juliane Kreisler
2012 Barbara Barbara
2013 Gold Emily Meyer
2014 A Most Wanted Man Irna Frey
2014 Phoenix Nelly Lenz
2014-15 Homeland Astrid TV Series, 9 episodes
2017 Rückkehr nach Montauk Rebecca

Awards

References

External links

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