Nina Hoss Biography

MARITAL STATUS
Profession Actress
German nationality
Birth July 7, 1975 (Stuttgart, Germany)

BIOGRAPHY
Born July 7, 1975 in Stuttgart, Nina Hoss is the daughter of a theater director and a trade unionist, co-founder of the German party Alliance 90/The Greens. She takes her first name from the heroine of Chekhov’s The Seagull , which brought her good luck: it was by performing an extract from this play that she was admitted in 1997 to the Ernst Busch Higher School of Drama, the conservatory from Berlin. It was there that she crossed paths with Thomas Ostermeier, a playwright whose favorite actress she would become. However, she initially refuses to join her troupe at the Schaubühne, a prestigious theater in Berlin, because it is notably forbidden to make films in parallel with the plays. However, despite her attachment to the stage, Nina Hoss has already taken a liking to film sets (she appeared for the first time in the cinema in 1996 in Und keiner weint mir nach ). She finally joined the director in 2013, when he relaxed the rules of his troupe.

In the cinema, it was with the director Christian Petzold that she formed a special relationship. They filmed together for the first time in the TV film Dangerous Encounters in 2001 and then reunited five times with Wolfsburg , Yella , Jerichow , Barbara and Phoenix . A series of feature films which establishes Nina Hoss as one of the most prominent actresses in her country. With Yella, she won the Silver Bear for best actress at the 2007 Berlinale and won the best actress prize at the Deutsche Filmpreise (the equivalent of the Césars). Barbara and Phoenix, dedicated to wounded women who fight to rebuild themselves, allowed her to be noticed beyond the borders of Germany.

Thus, in 2014, she shared the poster with Philip Seymour Hoffman , Rachel McAdams and Robin Wright in A Most Wanted Man , adapted from John le Carré . She continued the same year and until 2017 in the vein of espionage with the popular series Homeland , hosted by Claire Danes . If, in her native country, her filmography is mainly focused on drama, she has also distinguished herself in fantasy with the vampire film We Are the Night (2010) and the western Gold (2013). In 2021, Nina Hoss, who stopped theater to devote herself to the 7th art, returns to her beginnings thanks to the Swiss film Little Sister, in which she is a playwright who rediscovers the desire to create following her brother’s illness. There she found a former partner of Schaubühne, Lars Eidinger .