Nina Hoss

Nina Hoss is a German actress who works in theater, film, and television, and she began performing in radio plays at seven before taking the stage at fourteen. Born in Stuttgart, West Germany, she trained at Berlin's Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts, graduating in 1997, and found early success in A Girl Called Rosemary in 1996. Her collaboration with director Christian Petzold produced Yella (2007), which won her the best actress Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival and the German Film Award, plus Barbara (2012) and Phoenix (2014). She also appeared in The White Masai (2005) and Todd Field's Tár (2022), and starred as Eileen Lovborg in Hedda (2025). On television she played a German intelligence agent in Homeland from 2014 to 2017, and later appeared in The Defeated and Jack Ryan. Her stage work includes years at Berlin's Deutsches Theater and the Schaubühne, and Germany honored her with its Order of Merit in 2013.