Biography
Nicolette Krebitz was born and brought up in West Berlin. She studied classical dance at Berlin’s Ballett Centrum and obtained her acting diploma at the Fritz Kirchhoff Drama School in 1992. She has appeared in front of the camera in cinema and TV productions since 1982. In 1999, she realised her own film, JEANS, and has since then been working alternately as a director and actress. In 2019, she was awarded the Berlin Art Prize from the Academy of Arts in the Film and Media Art category.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Hysteria
2025
as Lilith
A film shoot takes a dark turn when the burning of a Quran throws the crew into turmoil. Caught in accusations, intern Elif is drawn into a dangerous ...

Klandestin WT
2025
Richard, an artist, now lives in Tangier. With his help, the young Moroccan Malik manages to reach Europe, the destination of his dreams. That's where...

The Light
2025
as Milena
A portrait of a modern family between collapse and new beginnings dealing with the big issues of our times, in a world that is reeling. Tim, Milena, t...

The Investigation
2024
as Zeugin 5
Peter Weiss’ monumental 1965 stage play, among the greatest artworks on the Holocaust, condenses the testimonies of witnesses and the accused during t...

Silver and the Book of Dreams
2023
as Ann Matthews
When Liv moves to London, she meets the mysterious Henry and his group of friends, who pull her into the enthralling world of dream-travel. She and he...

A E I O U – A Quick Alphabet of Love
2022
Director, Writer
Anna is 60 and her acting heyday is now behind her. She lives on her own but has a friend and confidant in her downstairs neighbour Michel, who is als...

Cloud Under the Roof
2022
as Nora
Paul, Julia and Lilly are a happy family, until Julia dies unexpectedly. For the sake of his daughter, Paul wants to function and suppress his grief. ...

Fly
2021
as Sara
Bex has caused a serious accident and is therefore in prison. In order to rehabilitate the inmates, the prison offers them a dance class led by Ava. B...

Eltern mit Hindernissen
2020
as Katrin Wiedemann
Katrin Wiedemann is on the verge of becoming a school principal. All she has to do is give birth to her third child and then she can start immediately...

My Zoe
2019
as Émilie
Isabelle, a geneticist recovering from a toxic marriage, is raising her only daughter, Zoe, with her contentious ex-husband. Zoe means everything to h...

Trauung mit Hindernissen
2018
as Katrin
Everything could be so nice between Katrin and Philip, if it were not the love (patchwork) family! Philipp surprises Katrin with a marriage proposal. ...

Silica
2017
as Narrator (voice)
An unseen location scout explores an opal-mining town in South Australia in this sci-fi-laced essay film, which finds in this semideserted region both...

Windstorm 3
2017
as Tara
Ostwind and Mika have found a real home at the farm Kaltenbach with Mika's grandmother. In the hustle of running therapy center and due to Mika's fame...

A Stork's Journey
2017
as Olga (voice)
Orphaned at birth and raised by storks, teenage sparrow Richard believes he is one of them. But when time comes to migrate to Africa, his stork family...

Familie mit Hindernissen
2017
as Katrin Wiedemann
Katrin can only dream of a happy family. Because the patchwork constellation with several involuntarily connected families puts their nerves to the te...

Two People Meeting
2016
as Senta
Senta and Thomas are dying to fall in love - just not with one another. Still, when two people - a hopeless romantic and a system analyst - meet, an u...

Freundinnen - Alle für eine
2016
as Sascha
They once played together in a band called Chix and were inseparable. Today, each of them has their own problems.

Wild
2016
Director, Screenplay
An anarchist young woman breaks the tacit contract with civilization and fearlessly decides on a life without hypocrisy or an obligatory safety net.

Arteholic
2014
as Self
Palm Springs resident and film and art legend Udo Kier is "arteholic". He lives, breathes and makes art and at times he is even a living art piece. In...

The Lies You Sleep With
2014
as Rita
Rita was always the richest, prettiest and most spoiled of the five friends. She always had everything under control. Even back then, at the time of t...

Better than Nothing
2014
as Olga Petrowa
The 17-year-old Tom filled out a questionnaire for the Employment Agency at a vocational guidance office in his school. He falls in love with the trai...

The Lies You Sleep With
2014
as Rita Kastner
Five women celebrate their reunion in an Alpine hut, but their past blurs the atmosphere.

Radical Evil
2014
as Voice
Das radikal Böse is a German-Austrian documentary that attempted to explore psychological processes and individual decision latitude "normal young men...

Die Flut ist pünktlich
2013
as Ulrike Larson
A corpse is washed up on the beach of the North Sea. The deceased is Alexander, husband of the beautiful Bettina. They have been coming to the island ...

The Blind Spot
2013
as Lise Chaussy
The true story of a journalist who investigates the backgrounds of the Oktoberfest terror attack of 1980.
Achill
2012
A bizarre visual discourse that seems to tell the story of a boy and a girl meeting in a bar. Through the mixed medium of animation and live-action we...

Summer Outside
2012
as Anna
An unusually hot summer. Fourteen year-old Wanda moves with her family from Berlin to Switzerland. Everything will be better here. The move is meant t...
Der Heiratsschwindler und seine Frau
2012
as Nina Gomperz
Marriage swindler Herbert Krugschenk is a master of his trade. His success is based on meticulous planning, and his wife "Schnuck" is responsible for ...
Dresden 1-2-3: Kurztrip
2012
One of three short films about the German town of Dreden Michael Klier directed for the german-french TV channel ARTE.
The Berlin Project
2011
as Hannah
An actor pursues his ex-mentor throughout Berlin in order to kill him.

Lollipop Monster
2011
as Kristina
Ari and Oona go to the same school. Lolita-like Ari, is blonde, pouting and lives in a world of bright colours, frustrated by her mother still treatin...

The City Below
2010
as Svenja Steve
A man and a woman at an art exhibition share a fleeting moment of attraction, which neither can act upon. Days later, a chance second meeting leads to...
Verhältnisse
2010
as Kerstin Schneider

Liebeslied
2009
as Dinah
Roger und Dinah führen seit Jahren eine glückliche Beziehung und sind mit ihren zwei Kindern eine richtige Bilderbuchfamilie. Ihr Leben verläuft einfa...

Germany ’09 – 13 Short Films About the State of the Nation
2009
Director
Thirteen German directors present short films exploring the state of their country.

The Heart Is a Dark Forest
2007
Screenplay, Director
A woman's life is destroyed when she discovers that her husband has another family.

High Maintenance
2006
as Jane
In the near-future, a woman whose robotic husband fails to meet her standards returns and upgrades him for a better version with standards that she no...

Sunday Girls
2006
'Sunday Girls' is a portrait of four young German actresses: Laura Tonke, Nicolette Krebitz, Katharina Schuettler and Inga Birkenfeld. They are member...
Zwischen Nacht und Tag
2004
as Vera
So schnell Du kannst
2003
as Linda Wegner

All the Queen's Men
2001
as Romy
A mismatched team of British Special Services agents led by an American must infiltrate, in disguise, a female-run Enigma factory in Berlin and bring ...

99€ Films
2001
Director
Anyone can hold a mini-DV camera. Anyone can get 99 euros in credit. And everyone has already written a five-minute story in school. So everyone is ac...
Jeans
2001
as Coco
A movie about the differences between girls and boys.
Jeans
2001
Director
A movie about the differences between girls and boys.

The Tunnel
2001
as Friederike " Fritzi " Scholz
Inspired by true events, Olympic swimmer Harry Melchior defects from East Germany in the 1960s and hatches a daring plot to help his sister and others...

Fandango - Members Only
2000
as Shirley Maus
Small-time dealers make moves in the German club scene.

Long Hello and Short Goodbye
1999
as Melody
The cop Kahnitz wants to finish off the little gangster Ben. The young undercover policewoman Melody is supposed to tempt him to make his final break....

Die Bubi Scholz Story
1998
as Helga Scholz - jung
Dramatic life of Gustav "Bubi" Scholz, who rose from post-war obscurity and a background in black market dealings to become a celebrated European boxi...

Bandits
1997
as Angel
Four female cons who have formed a band in prison get a chance to play at a police ball outside the walls. They take the chance to escape. Being on th...

Greenhorn
1997
as Julee Nixon
A journalist, who actually wanted to marry his fiancée during his vacation in the USA, is unexpectedly sent to New Mexico for a travel report. There h...

Tempo
1996
as Clarissa
Jojo, a bicycle messenger prone to daydreaming, gets a job offer from a stranger that begins to blur the lines between fantasy and reality. When the r...

The Killer Condom
1996
In New York City, detective Luigi Mackeroni investigates a string of mysterious penile mutilations at the Hotel Quickie. After Mackeroni attempts to h...

Loose Ends
1996
as special appearance
Sara is in the midst of making plans for her wedding to popular radio DJ Robert when she stumbles into a passionate affair. Having been single for fou...

Unter Druck
1995
as Judith
Babyfon - Mörder im Kinderzimmer
1995
as Anne

Kinder des Satans
1995
as Wiebke Preiss
When the corpse of student Heike is found, the police book it as a case of suicide. But Heike's girlfriend Wiebke thinks otherwise. She believes that ...
Looosers!
1995
as Letzter Partygast
Moritz and Karl have a boring job at an advertising company. One day they meet an obscure agent of a rival company who wants to buy information about ...

In the Flesh
1995
as Anna
A German woman travels to America with her baby to take up an au pair position with a rich couple. She has no idea that the childless couple are only ...
Domenica. Alle kommen, keiner war da
1994
as Domenica (child)
Docudrama about a prostitute.
Amok
1994
as Daniela Körner
After the end of his soccer career, Heimo Körner loses touch with normal life. Only when his stepdaughter Daniela slips into the drug scene he finds a...
Der Mann mit der Maske
1994
as Irene Häussler
A series of rapes causes a stir in a German university town. A special commission led by senior public prosecutor Schildt and detective Gawilek invest...

Ausgerechnet Zoé
1994
as Zoé
Zoe is spending a few lovely winter days on Sylt with a friend. She's struggling with her studies, her boyfriend Mike, and life in general. To make ma...

Unschuldsengel
1994
as Katja
Christoph Hansen, 16 year old son of a well-to-do Hamburg family is shocked when is father is arrested as a suspect in the murder of a male teen prost...
Durst
1993
as Sabine
Living and loving in a small village in the south of Germany. People and their conflicts with morality, manners, and society.

Schicksalsspiel
1993
as Conny
A Romeo-and-Juliet-tale between the soccer-clubs of St. Pauli and Rostock.

Schuld war nur der Bossa Nova
1992
In the summer of 1963, US President Kennedy visits the Berlin Wall and the hit song "Schuld war nur der Bossa Nova" plays from the jukeboxes in the pu...

Der achte Tag
1990
as Sylvie
A medical doctor who is regarded as a specialist in retort research has been found dead. Science journalist Vera Pukall investigates the alleged suici...
Der Spatzenmörder
1989
as Wiebke

Sigi, der Straßenfeger
1984
as Willy
Street sweeper Sigi finds a box containing not only 300,000 marks, but also a photo of his unsympathetic superior in a compromising situation. Sigi th...