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.

Filmography

• 2026Die andere Seite — Hanna
• 2026Grönemeyer – Alles bleibt anders
• 2026The Julia Set
• 2025Cicadas — Isabell
• 2025Hedda — Eileen Lovborg
• 2024Foreign Language — Susanne
• 2023Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World — Doris Goethe
• 2023For Ever
• 2023The Fundraiser — Sharon Goodnow
• 2022The Contractor — Katia
• 2022Trained to See – Three Women and the War — Martha Gellhorn (voice)
• 2022TÁR — Sharon Goodnow
• 2020My Little Sister — Lisa
• 2020One Day at the Sea — Agatha
• 2020Pelican Blood — Wiebke
• Shadowplay — Elsie Garten
• Criminal: Germany — Claudia Hartmann
• 2019The Audition — Anna Bronsky
• Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan — Alena Kovac
• 2017Geschichte einer Liebe – Freya — Freya von Moltke
• 2017Return to Montauk — Rebecca
• 2015Baden-Württemberg von oben — Erzähler
• 2015Bella Figura — Andrea
• 2015Kinder der Sonne — Jelena Nikolajewna
• 2014A Most Wanted Man — Irna Frey
• 2014Phoenix — Nelly Lenz
• 2013Gold — Emily Meyer
• 2013Hedda Gabler
• 2012Barbara — Barbara
• Die Kulturakte — Stimme
• Homeland — Astrid
• 2011Jedermann Remixed — Buhlschaft (archive footage)
• 2011Summer Window — Juliane Kreisler
• 2011The Kleist File — Narrator
• 2010We Are the Night — Louise
• 2008A Woman in Berlin — Anonyma
• 2008Jerichow — Laura
• 2008The Anarchist's Wife — Lenin
• 2007Hannah — Hannah Morgan
• 2007The Heart Is a Dark Forest — Marie
• 2007Yella — Yella Fichte
• 2006The Elementary Particles — Jane
• 2005The White Masai — Carola Lehmann
• 2003Wolfsburg — Laura Reiser
• Bloch — Lilly
• 2002Emilia Galotti — Countess Orsina
• 2002Epsteins Nacht — Paula
• 2002Naked — Charlotte
• 2002Something to Remind Me — Leyla
• 2001Selbstbeschreibung — Claudia
• 2000Die Geiseln von Costa Rica — Kiki
• 1999The Volcano — Marion von Kammer
• 1998Love Your Female Neighbor! — Liz
• 1998Rider of the Flames
• 1996A Girl Called Rosemarie — Rosemarie Nitribitt
• 1996And Nobody Weeps For Me — Marilli Kosemund
• Au nom du père
• National Theatre Live: Electra/Persona — Electra (Elisabeth) / Clytemnestra (Alma)
• Rivo Alto

Appearances as themselves (24)

• 2027Each Day in a Moment: 2026 — Self (uncredited)
• 2019Bitte nach Mitte! — Self
• 2016Love/Work/Cinema: A Conversation with Christian Petzold and Nina Hoss — Self
• 2015The Making of A Most Wanted Man — Self
• 2014The Making of 'Phoenix' — Self
• Kulturplatz — Self
• Beckmann — Self
• The Johannes B. Kerner Show — Self
• Leute heute — Self
• Tietjen und Bommes — Self
• Die Harald Schmidt Show — Self
• alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio — Self
• DAS! — Self
• ZDF-Mittagsmagazin — Self
• Nachtcafé — Self
• Goldene Kamera — Self
• Wetten, dass..? — Self
• Bavarian Film Awards — Self
• NDR Talk Show — Self
• Kölner Treff — Self
• 3 nach 9 — Self
• Titel, Thesen, Temperamente — Self
• Grimme Award — Self
• German Film Award — Self