Nina Hoss
Biography
Nina Hoss (born July 7, 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 with a curdling cynicism. In 2000 she was one of the Shooting Stars at the Berlinale. Her close collaboration with director Christian Petzold has been extremely successful: she won the 2003 Adolf Grimme Award for her role in his film Something to Remind Me and two years later the Adolf Grimme Award in Gold for Wolfsburg. Her performance of Yella, earned her the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2007 and the German Film Award in 2008. Another collaboration with Petzold, Barbara, in which Hoss plays a doctor exiled to an East German provincial backwater in 1980, premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2011 and the Toronto International Film Festival in 2012.
Known For
DAS!
1991
Die Harald Schmidt Show
1995
Leute heute
1997
Homeland
2011
Kölner Treff
1976
NDR Talk Show
1979
The Johannes B. Kerner Show
1998
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan
2018
3 nach 9
1974
Wetten, dass..?
1981
Beckmann
1999
ZDF-Mittagsmagazin
1989
Filmography
DAS!
as Self · 1991
Die Harald Schmidt Show
as Self · 1995
Leute heute
as Self · 1997
Homeland
as Astrid · 2011
Kölner Treff
as Self · 1976
NDR Talk Show
as Self · 1979
The Johannes B. Kerner Show
as Self · 1998
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan
as Alena Kovac · 2018
3 nach 9
as Self · 1974
Wetten, dass..?
as Self · 1981
Beckmann
as Self · 1999
ZDF-Mittagsmagazin
as Self · 1989
Nachtcafé
as Self · 1987
Tietjen und Bommes
as Self · 1997
alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio
as Self · 1994
German Film Award
as Self · 1951
Kulturplatz
as Self · 2004
Titel, Thesen, Temperamente
as Self · 1967
Grimme Award
as Self · 1964
Goldene Kamera
as Self · 1984
Bavarian Film Awards
as Self · 1979
Bloch
as Lilly · 2002
The Contractor
as Katia · 2022
A Most Wanted Man
as Irna Frey · 2014
TÁR
as Sharon Goodnow · 2022
Shadowplay
as Elsie Garten · 2020
Criminal: Germany
as Claudia Hartmann · 2019
Hedda
as Eileen Lovborg · 2025
We Are the Night
as Louise · 2010
Phoenix
as Nelly Lenz · 2014
Foreign Language
as Susanne · 2024
The White Masai
as Carola Lehmann · 2005
The Audition
as Anna Bronsky · 2019
Barbara
as Barbara · 2012
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
as Doris Goethe · 2023
A Woman in Berlin
as Anonyma · 2008
National Theatre Live: Electra/Persona
as Electra (Elisabeth) / Clytemnestra (Alma)
Die andere Seite
as Hanna · 2026
Return to Montauk
as Rebecca · 2017
Pelican Blood
as Wiebke · 2020
Die Kulturakte
as Stimme · 2011
Naked
as Charlotte · 2002
Epsteins Nacht
as Paula · 2002
The Elementary Particles
as Jane · 2006
Hannah
as Hannah Morgan · 2007
Grönemeyer – Alles bleibt anders
· 2026
The Anarchist's Wife
as Lenin · 2008
Jerichow
as Laura · 2008
Rivo Alto
The Julia Set
· 2026
Trained to See – Three Women and the War
as Martha Gellhorn (voice) · 2022
Baden-Württemberg von oben
as Erzähler · 2015
Love Your Female Neighbor!
as Liz · 1998
Au nom du père
A Girl Called Rosemarie
as Rosemarie Nitribitt · 1996
Gold
as Emily Meyer · 2013
Yella
as Yella Fichte · 2007
Geschichte einer Liebe – Freya
as Freya von Moltke · 2017
For Ever
· 2023
Summer Window
as Juliane Kreisler · 2011
Emilia Galotti
as Countess Orsina · 2002
The Heart Is a Dark Forest
as Marie · 2007
My Little Sister
as Lisa · 2020
The Making of 'Phoenix'
as Self · 2014
Cicadas
as Isabell · 2025
One Day at the Sea
as Agatha · 2020
The Fundraiser
as Sharon Goodnow · 2023
And Nobody Weeps For Me
as Marilli Kosemund · 1996
The Making of A Most Wanted Man
as Self · 2015
Die Geiseln von Costa Rica
as Kiki · 2000
Selbstbeschreibung
as Claudia · 2001
Wolfsburg
as Laura Reiser · 2003
Love/Work/Cinema: A Conversation with Christian Petzold and Nina Hoss
as Self · 2016
Jedermann Remixed
as Buhlschaft (archive footage) · 2011
Rider of the Flames
· 1998
Hedda Gabler
· 2013
Kinder der Sonne
as Jelena Nikolajewna · 2015
Bitte nach Mitte!
as Self · 2019
Bella Figura
as Andrea · 2015
The Volcano
as Marion von Kammer · 1999
Something to Remind Me
as Leyla · 2002
The Kleist File
as Narrator · 2011
Each Day in a Moment: 2026
as Self (uncredited) · 2027