Ina Weisse is a German actress,

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and film director. She is especially well known for her roles as the distant and ambivalent blonde. She became apparent with roles in films like ''

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'' und ''

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''. She won several awards with her films, regarding acting and directing films in Germany. Even though that the movies she directed have been successful, she is still better known as an actress than as a director. Her most famous film, which she directed is '.

Life and education

Ina Weisse was born on 12 June 1968 in

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and is the daughter of a respected architect and an art mistress, which influenced her very early to choose an artistic life journey. But it was her uncle, who introduced her to the theater, as he took her to the Berliner

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. After she finished her degree at the acting school

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, received Ina Weisse her first engagement at the

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. Afterwards she started to study philosophy in

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in 1992. In 2002 she finished her second degree at the

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, where she studied

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and production by

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. Her graduation movie ''Alles anders'' was honored with the First Steps Award First Steps Award. Ina Weisse is married to the German Film director

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, with whom she worked together for the TV-films ''Duell in der Nacht'' (2007), ''Tod in Istanbul'' (2009), ''Der Verdacht'' (2010) und ''Das Ende einer Nacht'' (2011).

Career

Her first theater debut was with the comedy movie called ''Echte Kerle'' (1996). Henceforth she was seen in many TV- productions and several times in the German crime series

. Weisse started in 2001 with making short movies, which have been successful and can be seen as her start for TV productions. ' (2008) was her debut as a film director, for which she had been writing the script together with Daphne Charizani.

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and

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, famous German actors, played the main roles in the drama. The movie was screened at the

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and Max-Ophüls-Filmfestival in 2009 and was priced for the best screenplay. The film critic Stefanie Rufle wrote: ”It's a mature direction debut, which Ina Weisse handled stabile and confident".

Filmography

As actress

As director

Awards

References

External links

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Interview with Ina Weisse
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