Gruschenka Stevens (born Grace Simon, July 16, 1974 in Cologne,
Germany) is a German actress and singer.At the age of six, she played
a role in the film "An afternoon in Cologne" and had, shortly after a
guest appearance on the popular children's show "The TV-Show with the
Mouse". At age 11, she acted in a play at the Schauspielhaus in
Cologne and went with 17 years to New York where she took acting
classes at the studios of Herbert Berghoff & Uta Hagen. She then
attended the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in NYC, London, and Los
Angeles where she promptly received her first role in a
Canadian-German soap opera.In the movies Nobody loves me by Doris
Dörrie and Full normaaal 1994 Gruschenka received first small roles
in German film. In 1995, she was widely noticed as she enacted, under
the direction of Ralf Huettner, a hospital switchboard operator in The
cold finger.In 1999, she embodied a singer in Sherry Horman's Widows
and an overwhelmed, struggling mother in Get away from here directed
by Franziska Buch, which for this film was awarded the Max Ophüls
Prize. In 2001, once again directed by Huettner she acted in the film
adaptation of the bestseller book by Ildiko von Kürthy Moonlight
Tariff on the side of Jasmin Tabatabai. In the popular movie Moonlight
Tariff she played a very urban and very confused woman, in her late
twenties, who after many romantic misunderstandings, still gets to
have her ‘Mr.Right‘in the end. After that she paired up with
director Vivian Naefe with whom she created 2 TV movies in a row To be
crazy is normal a musical-tragic-comedy on the side of Dieter Pfaff
and the black humour comedy Men piece-by-piece.
Germany) is a German actress and singer.At the age of six, she played
a role in the film "An afternoon in Cologne" and had, shortly after a
guest appearance on the popular children's show "The TV-Show with the
Mouse". At age 11, she acted in a play at the Schauspielhaus in
Cologne and went with 17 years to New York where she took acting
classes at the studios of Herbert Berghoff & Uta Hagen. She then
attended the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in NYC, London, and Los
Angeles where she promptly received her first role in a
Canadian-German soap opera.In the movies Nobody loves me by Doris
Dörrie and Full normaaal 1994 Gruschenka received first small roles
in German film. In 1995, she was widely noticed as she enacted, under
the direction of Ralf Huettner, a hospital switchboard operator in The
cold finger.In 1999, she embodied a singer in Sherry Horman's Widows
and an overwhelmed, struggling mother in Get away from here directed
by Franziska Buch, which for this film was awarded the Max Ophüls
Prize. In 2001, once again directed by Huettner she acted in the film
adaptation of the bestseller book by Ildiko von Kürthy Moonlight
Tariff on the side of Jasmin Tabatabai. In the popular movie Moonlight
Tariff she played a very urban and very confused woman, in her late
twenties, who after many romantic misunderstandings, still gets to
have her ‘Mr.Right‘in the end. After that she paired up with
director Vivian Naefe with whom she created 2 TV movies in a row To be
crazy is normal a musical-tragic-comedy on the side of Dieter Pfaff
and the black humour comedy Men piece-by-piece.
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