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Nicolette Krebitz
Nicolette Krebitz (left) with film director Anne Høegh Krohn from Norway at the "Festival des deutschen Films" 2009, Ludwigshafen, Germany
Born
Berlin, Germany
Other namesCoco
Occupation(s)Actress, director, model, singer

Nicolette Krebitz is a German director, actress, model, and singer. She is often credited as Coco in her creative works.

Life and work

Nicolette Krebitz 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 Das Herz ist ein dunkler Wald.

She is the model on the cover of New Order's 2001 album Get Ready and its associated singles.[1] 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[2]

Selected filmography

Year Title Role Director Notes
1994 Ausgerechnet Zoé [de] Zoé Markus Imboden [de] TV film
1994 Der Mann mit der Maske [de] Irene Häussler Peter Schulze-Rohr [de] TV film
1995 In the Flesh [de] Anna Nikolai Müllerschön English-language film
1997 Bandits Angel Katja von Garnier
1998 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
2001 All the Queen's Men Romy Stefan Ruzowitzky English-language film
2002 So schnell du kannst [de] Linda Wegner Vivian Naefe TV film
2010 The City Below Svenja Steve Christoph Hochhäusler
2014 The Lies You Sleep With Rita Thomas Roth
2016 Wild — Nicolette Krebitz

References

  1. ^ "Frequently Asked Questions– New Order Online". Retrieved 30 December 2007.
  2. ^ "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)
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