Cosma Shiva Hagen () is an American-German actress, born in LA. Although she speaks English, her acting roles have been largely confined to German-language films and television productions. She also starred in an Irish film called ''Short Order'' (2005).
Personal life
Hagen's maternal grandfather
Hans Oliva-Hagen
Hans Oliva-Hagen ( Hagen; 14 April 1922 – 1992) was a journalist, writer, and screenwriter in the German Democratic Republic who wrote under the pseudonyms Hans Oliva and John Ryder. His most important works include his collaboration on the sc ...
was a Holocaust survivor, being held at a prison in
Moabit
Moabit () is an inner city locality in the boroughs of Berlin, borough of Mitte, Berlin, Germany. As of 2022, about 84,000 people lived in Moabit. First inhabited in 1685 and incorporated into Berlin in 1861, the former industrial sector, industr ...
between 1941 and 1945 until liberation by the Soviets. Her mother is the German singer, songwriter, and actress
Nina Hagen
Catharina "Nina" Hagen (; born 11 March 1955) is a German singer, songwriter, and actress. She is known for her theatrical vocals and rise to prominence during the punk and Neue Deutsche Welle movements in the late 1970s and early 1980s. She is ...
. Her maternal grandmother was the singer and actress
Eva-Maria Hagen
Eva-Maria Hagen (; ; 19 October 1934 – 16 August 2022) was a German actress and singer. She was known as the "Brigitte Bardot of the GDR" but was banned from performance for political reasons.
Life
Hagen was born Eva-Maria Buchholz in Költ ...
.
Selected filmography
* ''
'' (1998), as Sandra
* ' (1998, TV miniseries), as Ilonka
* ''Die fabelhaften Schwestern'' (2002, TV film), as Effi
* ''
7 Dwarves – Men Alone in the Wood
''7 Dwarves – Men Alone In the Woods'' () is a German comedy film, created in 2004 by Otto Waalkes, loosely based on the story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, while also containing parodies of many other fairy tales by the Brothers Grim ...
'' (2004), as Snow White
* ''
Short Order'' (2005), as Catherine
* ''
7 Dwarves: The Forest Is Not Enough'' (2006), as Snow White
* ' (2007), as Sylvia Göbel
* ' (2008, TV film), as Gloria Hasselt
* ' (2008, TV film), as Johanna Bachmann
* ''Fire!'' (2009), as Nicole Hart
* ' (2011, TV film), as Mona Müller
* ' (2014), as Connie
References
External links
*
Biography on Rosenthalusa.com
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Living people
American emigrants to Germany
German film actresses
German television actresses
German voice actresses
Hagen family
Year of birth missing (living people)
20th-century German actresses
21st-century German actresses