Nicolette Krebitz
Nicolette Krebitz | |
---|---|
![]() Krebitz in 2012 | |
Born | (1972-09-02) September 2, 1972 (age 52) Berlin, Germany |
Other names | Coco |
Occupation(s) | Actress, director, model, singer |
Nicolette Krebitz (born 2 September 1972) is a German director, actress, model, and singer. She is often credited as Coco in her creative works.
Life and work
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Nicolette_Krebitz_%28left%29%2C_Anne_Hoegh_Krohn_%28right%29%2C_2009.jpg/220px-Nicolette_Krebitz_%28left%29%2C_Anne_Hoegh_Krohn_%28right%29%2C_2009.jpg)
Nicolette Krebitz was born on 2 September 1972 in West Berlin, Germany.[1][2] She made her film debut at age eleven. Later, she hosted television and radio shows for children and attended the Ballett-Centre Berlin and the Fritz-Kirchhoff acting school, also in Berlin.
Krebitz has appeared in over 30 movies, but she is known best for her role in the German-language films Bandits (1997) and Der Tunnel (2001). She also appeared in the English-language film All the Queen's Men (2001). She wrote and directed the 2001 movie Jeans and 2007's The Heart Is a Dark Forest [de].
She is the model on the cover of New Order's 2001 album Get Ready and its associated singles.[3] Her image is also on the cover and in the sleeve of Terranova's 1999 album Close the Door. She contributed vocals to the Bandits soundtrack and to the Terranova tracks Just Enough, Plastic Stress and Never.
Tribute
The German hip hop group Fettes Brot together with Indie band Tocotronic has dedicated a song to her entitled "Nicolette Krebitz wartet" ("Nicolette Krebitz is Waiting") which is a cover version of the Bananarama hit "Robert De Niro's Waiting...".
Awards
1997 Bavarian Film Award, Best Film Score[4]
Selected filmography
Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
1993 | Durst [de] | Sabine | Martin Weinhart [de] | TV film |
Soccer Love [de] | Conny | Bernd Schadewald [de] | TV film | |
1994 | Ausgerechnet Zoé [de] | Zoé | Markus Imboden [de] | TV film |
Der Mann mit der Maske [de] | Irene Häussler | Peter Schulze-Rohr [de] | TV film | |
The Little Innocent [de] | Katja | Rainer Kaufmann | TV film | |
1995 | In the Flesh [de] | Anna | Nikolai Müllerschön | English-language film |
1997 | Bandits | Angel | Katja von Garnier | |
1998 | Candy | Candy | Christopher Roth | |
The Bubi Scholz Story [de] | Helga Scholz | Roland Suso Richter | TV film | |
1999 | Long Hello and Short Goodbye | Melody | Rainer Kaufmann | |
2000 | Fandango | Shirley Maus | Matthias Glasner | |
2001 | The Tunnel | Fritzi Scholz | Roland Suso Richter | TV film |
All the Queen's Men | Romy | Stefan Ruzowitzky | English-language film | |
2002 | So schnell du kannst [de] | Linda Wegner | Vivian Naefe | TV film |
2004 | Between Night and Day | Vera | Nicolai Rohde [de] | TV film |
2007 | The Heart Is a Dark Forest [de] | — | Nicolette Krebitz | |
2010 | Relations | Kerstin Schneider | Stefan Kornatz [de] | TV film |
The City Below | Svenja Steve | Christoph Hochhäusler | ||
2012 | The Marriage Swindler and His Wife [de] | Nina Gomperz | Manfred Stelzer [de] | TV film |
Summer Outside [de] | Anna | Friederike Jehn [de] | ||
2013 | The Blind Spot [de] | Lise Chaussy | Daniel Harrich [de] | |
2014 | The Lies You Sleep With [de] | Rita | Thomas Roth [de] | TV film |
Better Than Nothing [de] | Olga Petrowa | Ute Wieland [de] | ||
2015 | CHIX – Back on Stage | Sascha | Jan Ruzicka [de] | TV film |
2016 | Wild | — | Nicolette Krebitz | |
2019 | My Zoe | Émilie | Julie Delpy |
References
- ^ "Kalenderblatt 2022: 2. September" [Calendar sheet 2022: September 2nd]. Berliner Zeitung (in German). 1 September 2022.
- ^ Leinkauf, Max (15 June 2022). ""Wenn ältere Frauen begehren ..."" ["When older women desire…"]. Der Freitag (in German).
- ^ "Frequently Asked Questions– New Order Online". Retrieved 30 December 2007.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 August 2008. Retrieved 19 August 2008.
{{cite web}}
: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
External links
- Nicolette Krebitz at IMDb
- Fan site in German