Background
Hoss was born in Stuttgart, West Germany. Her mother, Heidemarie Rohweder, was an actress at Stuttgart National Theatre and later director of the Esslingen-based Württemberg State Playhouse (Württembergischen Landesbühne Esslingen).
Hoss was born in Stuttgart, West Germany. Her mother, Heidemarie Rohweder, was an actress at Stuttgart National Theatre and later director of the Esslingen-based Württemberg State Playhouse (Württembergischen Landesbühne Esslingen).
In 1997 she graduated from the Drama School "Ernst Busch" in Berlin.
Hoss acted in radio plays at the age of seven and appeared on stage for the first time at the age of 14. In 2000 she was one of the Shooting Stars at the Berlinale. 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.
In a review of her 2009 film Anonyma, The New York Times remarked that Hoss, "whose strong frame and graceful bearing suggest both old-style movie-star glamour and Aryan ideals of feminine beauty, is an actress of haunting subtlety, and the film, episodic, ambitious and a few beats too long, is held together by the force of her performance."
She was an ensemble member at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin from 1998 to 2013, where she appeared as Medea and, as Franziska, in Minna von Barnhelm (2005).
In 2012, she was appointed sole judge of the 2012 Alfred Kerr Acting Prize at the Berliner Theatertreffen. In 2013, she joined the ensemble of the Schaubühne theatre in Berlin.
She recorded a duet with the Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers called "Europa Geht Durch Mich" for the album "Futurology", which was released on 7 July 2014. Hoss supports the Make Poverty History campaign and fights female genital cutting.
She is quoted as saying, "Foreign 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." In continuation of the work of her father she is committed as a Goodwill Ambassador of the State of Pará in Brazil against the destruction of the rain forest and to improve the living conditions of the indigenous people living there.
Nina"s father, Willi Hoss, was a German trade unionist and politician (member of the German Bundestag in The Greens).
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.
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Hoss has been a member of the Juries of the Locarno International Film Festival in 2009, and the Berlin International Film Festival in 2011.