Nina Hoss

Nina Hoss is a German actress.

Nina graduated from the Drama School "Ernst Busch" in Berlin. Her first major success was the title role of Bernd Eichinger’s A Girl Called Rosemarie in 1996. 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. Nina has been a member of the Juries of the Locarno International Film Festival in 2009, and the Berlin International Film Festival in 2011. She has been an ensemble member at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin since 1998, where she appeared as Medea. Social commitment

Nina supports the Make Poverty History campaign, a charity that fights female genital cutting. She is quoted as saying, "For me, genital mutilation, torture, is one of the worst crimes in the name of so-called honour on earth. I dream that it will be possible for this form of domination over women to be abandoned.