Biography
Nina Hoss (born 7 July 1975) is a German stage and film actress. 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 she 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 ...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Hedda
2025
as Eileen
Stuck in a loveless marriage, the ambitious Hedda Gabler hungers for a life her husband can't provide. When a former flame reappears, her new life beg...
Cicadas
2025
as Isabell
The story of a friendship between two dissimilar women: On the one hand, single mother Anja, who tries to keep herself and her daughter afloat with va...
Foreign Language
2024
as Susanne
Fanny, a shy and lonely teenager, goes on a language exchange to Germany. In Leipzig, she meets her pen pal, Lena, a teenager eager to become politica...
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
2023
as Doris Goethe
On behalf of a multinational company, a production assistant drives around the Romanian city of Bucharest, interviewing various citizens who have been...
For Ever
2023
Eva and Dieter danced together for the first time in the winter of 1952. They got married, built a house and had three children. They argued, doubted,...
The Fundraiser
2023
as Sharon Goodnow
An accompanying short film to TÁR (2022).
Trained to See – Three Women and the War
2022
as Martha Gellhorn (voice)
During the Second World War, women were for the first time allowed to work as war correspondents. Based on reports, letters and diary excerpts, filmma...
TÁR
2022
as Sharon Goodnow
As celebrated conductor Lydia Tár starts rehearsals for a career-defining symphony, the consequences of her past choices begin to echo in the present.
The Contractor
2022
as Katia
After being involuntarily discharged from the U.S. Special Forces, James Harper decides to support his family by joining a private contracting organiz...
Pelican Blood
2020
as Wiebke
Wiebke, a professional horse trainer, faces a unique challenge when she adopts Raya, a five-year-old girl, who is prone to violent outbursts because o...
My Little Sister
2020
as Lisa
Berlin playwright Lisa follows her husband Martin to Switzerland, where he manages a private school. However, when her twin brother Sven’s leukaemia b...
Une journée à la mer
2020
A short story about the incestuous relationship of brother and his sister Agatha returns to the seaside resort of her childhood in Normandy with her s...
Bitte nach Mitte!
2019
as Self
The documentary sketches the essence and impact, history and present of the Berlin drama school "Ernst Busch". It takes the move of the school in 2018...
The Audition
2019
as Anna Bronsky
Anna teaches violin at a music school, her husband is an instrument-maker. They have a 10-year-old son, Jonas. At school, Anna champions young Alexand...
Return to Montauk
2017
as Rebecca
During a book tour in the United States, Max meets and falls in love with a young woman. Many years later, Max returns to the United States, hoping to...
Geschichte einer Liebe – Freya
2017
as Freya von Moltke
Freya Deichmann's life undergoes a radical change when she meets Helmuth James von Moltke at the age of 18. "I saw him and my heart stood still." He i...
Love/Work/Cinema: A Conversation with Christian Petzold and Nina Hoss
2016
as Self
New conversation between director Christian Petzold and actor Nina Hoss
Bella Figura
2015
as Andrea
Bella Figura is a play where the stage direction "flottement" (a suspension, indeterminacy, or oscillation) occurs frequently, indicating a moment of ...
Baden-Württemberg von oben
2015
as Erzähler
The Making of A Most Wanted Man
2015
as Self
Behind-the-scenes look at making the film adaptation of John le Carré's A Most Wanted Man.
Phoenix
2014
as Nelly Lenz
German-Jewish cabaret singer Nelly survived Auschwitz but had to undergo reconstructive surgery as her face was disfigured. Without recognizing Nelly,...
A Most Wanted Man
2014
as Irna Frey
A Chechen Muslim illegally immigrates to Hamburg and becomes a person of interest for a covert government team tracking the movements of potential ter...
The Making of 'Phoenix'
2014
as Self
2014 documentary featuring interviews with Petzold, Hoss, actors Nina Kunzendorf and Ronald Zehrfeld, and production designer K. D. Gruber
Gold
2013
as Emily Meyer
Canada, the summer of 1898. A group of German settlers travel towards the far north in covered wagons with packhorses and their few possessions in tow...
Barbara
2012
as Barbara
In 1980s East Germany, Barbara is a Berlin doctor banished to a country medical clinic for applying for an exit visa. Deeply unhappy with her reassign...
Summer Window
2011
as Juliane Kreisler
Juliane's happiness seems perfect. She is head over heals in love and has just begun a new life with August. One morning, however, she wakes up to fin...
Jedermann Remixed
2011
as Buhlschaft (archive footage)
Based on archive holdings from nine decades, director Hannes Rossacher has created a complete Jedermann performance and thus a unique cultural-histori...
The Kleist File
2011
as Narrator
Kleist's death at Wannsee - a spectacular case that has disturbed and fascinated posterity to this day. The German poet is found shot - what does that...
We Are the Night
2010
as Louise
One night, 18 year old Lena is bitten by Louise, leader of a female vampire trio that are as deadly as they are beautiful. Her newfound vampiric lifes...
Jerichow
2009
as Laura
In a small town in Northern Germany, a penniless German veteran is offered a job as a deliveryman by an alcoholic Turkish entrepreneur, through which ...
A Woman in Berlin
2008
as Anonyma
A woman tries to survive the invasion of Berlin by the Soviet troops during the last days of World War II.
The Anarchist's Wife
2008
as Lenin
"The Anarchist's Wife" is the story of Manuela who is left behind when her husband Justo fights for his ideals against Franco's Nationalists during th...
The Heart Is a Dark Forest
2007
as Marie
A woman's life is destroyed when she discovers that her husband has another family.
Yella
2007
as Yella Fichte
A young East German woman leaves her husband and business partner and relocates to a West German city to start anew as an accountant, but he soon catc...
Hannah
2007
as Hannah Morgan
A picturesque blonde beauty constructs an impenetrable emotional wall that neither her parents, her boyfriend, nor her colleague can penetrate. Hannah...
The Elementary Particles
2006
as Jane
Based on Michel Houellebecq's controversial novel, Atomised (aka The Elementary Particles) focuses on Michael and Bruno, two very different half-broth...
The White Masai
2005
as Carola Lehmann
A girl, Carola, whose vacation in Kenya takes an interesting turn when she becomes infatuated with a Masai. Carola decides to leave her boyfriend to s...
Wolfsburg
2003
as Laura Reiser
Philipp Gerber is a smart, but self-satisfied car salesman. In an inattentive moment at the wheel of his car, he runs over a boy on a bike and, instea...
Epsteins Nacht
2002
as Paula
Jochen Epstein is released from prison after serving 15 years for murder. He is determined to emigrate from Germany and leave the past behind him fore...
Naked
2002
as Charlotte
Nackt is the story of three couples, one of which just broke up, one that seems to be about to and one perfectly okay. They are all friends and from t...
Something to Remind Me
2002
as Leyla
Middle-aged lawyer Thomas meets Leyla at the pool. After their paths keep crossing, he asks her out on a date. Somewhat to his surprise she agrees. Th...
Emilia Galotti
2002
as Countess Orsina
TV adaptation of Michael Thalheimer's production at the Deutsches Theater Berlin.
Selbstbeschreibung
2001
as Claudia
Georg Stefan Troller, born in Vienna in 1921, crossed half of Europe as a refugee only to return with the US army in 1945 . As a filmmaker he became a...
Die Geiseln von Costa Rica
2000
as Kiki
The German tourist Kiki and the Swiss tour guide Marlies are kidnapped by Contra rebels from Nicaragua while on vacation in Costa Rica. While Kiki's f...
The Volcano
1999
as Marion von Kammer
A singer flees from Nazi Germany, travels to Paris and befriends a young writer, his lover and a professor.
Love Your Female Neighbor!
1998
as Liz
Two young and attractive social workers/nuns bring fresh air into a city missionary station, but are also challenged by lust and money, offered by a m...
Rider of the Flames
1998
Feuerreiter is an elegant period drama that begins in Frankfurt in 1796. Through his friend, Baron von Sinclair, romantic and rebellious poet Friedric...
A Girl Called Rosemarie
1996
as Rosemarie Nitribitt
Katja Flint, Hannelore Elsner and Heiner Lauterbach star in this German film about a woman who climbs the social ladder by sleeping with those she enc...
And Nobody Weeps For Me
1996
as Marilli Kosemund
Between 1924 and 1934, six children grow up in an apartment building in the Munich suburbs. Among them is the rather inconspicuous and melancholy Leo ...
Kinder der Sonne
N/A
as Jelena Nikolajewna
The Other Side
N/A
Since losing her family, a woman is living alone in the wilderness — far away from society, which is dominated by mistrust and fear after the outbreak...