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
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'' (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 '.
She is the model on the cover of
New Order's 2001 album ''
Get Ready'' and its associated singles. 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
Fettes Brot () is a German hip hop group that formed in 1992.
History
Band name
Fettes Brot means ''fat bread'' in German. "Fett" is a German slang term for "excellent" and brot is slang for "hash". The band took the name from a fan who ca ...
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
Bananarama are an English pop duo from London, formed as a trio in 1980 by friends Sara Dallin, Siobhan Fahey and Keren Woodward. Fahey left the group in 1988 and was replaced by Jacquie O'Sullivan until 1991, when the trio became a duo. T ...
hit "
Robert De Niro's Waiting...".
Awards
1997
Bavarian Film Award
The Bavarian Film Awards (german: Bayerischer Filmpreis) have been awarded annually since 1979 by the state government of Bavaria in Germany for “exceptional achievement in German filmmaking.” Along with the German Film Awards, these are th ...
, Best Film Score
Selected filmography
References
External links
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Fan site in German
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German film actresses
German female models
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Actresses from Berlin
20th-century German actresses
21st-century German actresses
Models from Berlin