Désirée Nosbusch a.k.a. Désirée Becker (born 14 January 1965) is a Luxembourger

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and

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presenter. She was born in

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to a Luxembourgish father and Italian mother. In the 1980s she lived in

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, and from the 1990s to 2008 in

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Biography

Nosbusch speaks Luxembourgish, German, French, Italian and English. She has acted in both French-language and German-language films and television productions since her mid-teens. She was a member of the youth drama group of the Lycée Hubert Clément of Esch-sur-Alzette (Luxembourg), and appeared in some Italian-language TV miniseries. She presented the

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in Luxembourg, and hosted a kids' version of the game show Ruck Zuck called "Kinder Ruck Zuck". Nosbusch is also a singer. In 1984 she recorded a

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with Austrian singer Falco, "Kann es Liebe sein?".

Selected filmography

* ' (1981, directed by

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) * '' Der Fan'' (1982, directed by

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) * ' (1983, TV film, directed by

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) * ''

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'' (1983, directed by

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) * ''

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'' (1983, directed by

) * ''

Good Morning, Babylon ''Good Morning, Babylon'' ( it, Buongiorno Babilonia) is a 1987 drama film written and directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, starring Vincent Spano, Joaquim de Almeida, Greta Scacchi, Désirée Nosbusch, Omero Antonutti, and Charles Dance. The fi ...

'' (1987, directed by

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) * ' (1988, directed by ) * ' (1989, directed by

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'' (1991, TV miniseries, directed by and

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) * ' (1991, TV film, directed by

) * ' (1993, TV miniseries, directed by

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) * ''

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'' (1995, TV film, directed by

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) * '' Opernball'' (1998, TV film, directed by

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) * ''

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'' (1998, TV series, directed by

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) * '' Contaminated Man'' (2000, directed by

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) * ''High Explosive'' (2001, directed by

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'' (2001, directed by

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) * ' (2008, TV film, directed by ) * ' (2018, directed by Félix Koch) * ''

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'' (2018, TV series) * '' Capitani'' (2019, TV series)

External links

Désirée Nosbusch fanpage
* 1965 births Living people People from Esch-sur-Alzette Luxembourgian film actresses Luxembourgian television actresses Luxembourgian television personalities Luxembourgian people of Italian descent Luxembourgian expatriates in the United States 20th-century Luxembourgian actresses 21st-century Luxembourgian actresses {{Luxembourg-actor-stub