Nina Hoss (born 7 July 1975) is a German stage and film actress.Hoss
was born in Stuttgart, West Germany. Her father, Willi Hoss [de], was
a German trade unionist and politician (member of the Bundestag in The
Greens). Her mother, Heidemarie Rohweder [de], was an actress at
Stuttgart National Theatre and later director of the Esslingen-based
Württemberg State Playhouse (Württembergische Landesbühne
Esslingen).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, Hoss 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, what a New York Times
review calls a "curdling cynicism".
was born in Stuttgart, West Germany. Her father, Willi Hoss [de], was
a German trade unionist and politician (member of the Bundestag in The
Greens). Her mother, Heidemarie Rohweder [de], was an actress at
Stuttgart National Theatre and later director of the Esslingen-based
Württemberg State Playhouse (Württembergische Landesbühne
Esslingen).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, Hoss 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, what a New York Times
review calls a "curdling cynicism".
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